Thursday, March 10, 2011

"Water Lilies" by Claude Monet: A Beauty at a Different Light

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Claude Monet is one of the most acclaimed painters that earned the greatest recognition because of the quality of his works. He is one of the fathers of impressionism and has effectively expressed his perceptions thru the art works that he has his done.

Water Lilies by Claude Monet was created in the 1920s and was the product borne out of the man’s failing vision and the painting just depicts the way the acclaimed painter saw and interpreted the scene at that moment. It is very realistic and has never created any hint of his impending disability.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Vincent Van Gogh The Night Café Painting Review

Vincent Van Gogh became famous because of the bold and daring strokes that he used on most of his works. Van Gogh created masterpieces that highlight the night and one of these paintings is The Night Café which he did when he was in Arles back in 1888, after studying in Paris.

Vincent Van Gogh The Night Café

A lot of people may not get the same impression on "The Night Café" because compared with the other famous Van Gogh masterpieces "The Night Café" pales in comparison in terms of explicit beauty. However, people should look deeper beneath the strokes, the lines, and the shades that were used for it because there is no doubt that behind all these are the messages that Van Gogh was trying to express.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Salvador Dali Swans Reflecting Elephants Painting Analysis

"Swans Reflecting Elephants" is one of the Salvador Dali's classic masterpieces that profoundly made use of the famous double images that made Dali's collection a collector's item. It is an oil painting on canvas that was created in 1937.

Dali Swans Reflecting Elephants

Salvador Dali is famous for his one of a kind works en he effectively utilized used a Critical-Paranoiac style in "Swans Reflecting Elephants". In this famous work of Salvador Dali, he perfectly used his capacity to effectively mix his fantasies with reality to come up with such an outstanding work of art.

Monday, January 31, 2011

Van Gogh Starry Night Painting Analysis

Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night Painting: Giving Light to the Uncertainties that come at Night time

Van Gogh Starry Night Painting

Starry Night painting is one of the many creations of the very controversial Vincent Van Gogh. It is an oil painting that was created way back in June of 1889 while he is kept under the custody of the Saint Remy of Provence Psychiatric Hospital.

"Starry Night" is the painting of Vincent Van Gogh’s bizarre mind during that time. The year before he painted the piece, he got into a major fight with his most trusted friend, Gaugin and as the argument heated up, Vincent lose control of his better thinking that made it possible for him to cut his own right ear.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Painting Analysis

"Les Demoiselles d' Avignon": A Deeper Look into the Women of Barcelona

Picasso Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Pablo Picasso as many collectors know is one of the few artists who made an outstanding mark on people of all generations. Les Demoiselles d' Avignon is one of the famous painting of Picasso that dates back in 1907 and has become the classic piece that launched cubism on 20th century art as it highlights the women of Barcelona in a very artistic way.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Klimt The Kiss Painting Analysis

According to the world art history, The Kiss is probably Gustav Klimt's most famous painting of his so-called 'Golden Period' (1898 - 1908) when most of his masterpiece artworks utilized gold leaf. Klimt start The Kiss on 1907 when he was 45 and still lived with his mother, and finished in 1908. The Kiss painting is widely considered to be the greatest painting ever, better than even the Mona Lisa.


What make The Kiss outstanding from other paintings?