Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023011063bdc3c7aff67 Charles Ethan Porter was an American painter who specialized in still life. He was the only African-American artist at the turn of the century to specialize in still life painting. As a free African American, his early interest in painting matched the inspiration he found in his mother’s garden and the fields […]
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b5b2bf4f954 Sandro Botticelli’s Spring is undoubtedly one of the most famous masterpieces in the world. It has been called “one of the most talked about and controversial paintings in the world” and “one of the most popular paintings in Western art”. All this is true. It depicts a group of figures from classical
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b5a588c584f The reliefs we present today were created during the reign of the last dynasty of Egypt, the Greek (actually Macedonian) Ptolemaic dynasty. That’s right, the famous Cleopatra was the last ruler of this dynasty. Reliefs or sculptures like the ones you see today depict a subject in a partial or unfinished way,
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b5ac1e1f96a The Golden Islands refer to the Hyères Islands on the French Côte d’azur. Today the painting is by the French artist Henri-Edmond Cross, known as the master of Neo-Impressionism. It is almost an abstract composition composed of several horizontal bands of color that differentiate beach, sea and sky from each other. Referring
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b5977e39565 We continue to celebrate Women’s History Month with Uemura Shoen, a Japanese painter best known for his ukiyo-e paintings of beautiful people ( bijinga ). She is reported to have said: “I have never drawn women with the feeling that they should only be ‘beautiful’. My desire is to draw jewel-like, clear,
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b55e5bad497 The painting by Pierre Bonnard we are showing today was most likely created in the house he rented in Paris Saint-Germain-Anlay. The subject of the painting is Bonnard’s wife Mattie (although the dog may have been important as well). The artist’s family life is the main focus of his work. In “Coffee”
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2023010463b55af0971b4 Joanna Wells studied painting in London and Paris. She belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite circle and exhibited her work for the first time in 1851, when John Ruskin admired her work. This small study project was completed in the last year of her life while she was preparing a large canvas for Zenobia,
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20221102636296ec27222 This fabric cover is called “buro yarn”. Traditionally, in Japan, gifts are placed in boxes on trays with furosha hanging from them. Choosing the furosha that suits the occasion is an important part of the gift-giving ceremony. The richness of the decoration indicates the wealth of the gift giver, while the quality
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022110263629516b3e8b Unlike the landscapes of earlier ukiyo-e artists, who often featured famous places, Hasui Kawase was one of the first artists to document unknown countryside and corners of cities, which he found so fascinating . He traveled extensively, documenting Japan’s scenic wonders in sketches and watercolors, which became the basis for many of
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202211026362920e77d47 Henriëtte Geertruida Knip was a flower painter from the North of the Netherlands, who was born into an artistic family – both her father and her brother were painters. Henriette Giltruida became a successful painter, spending summers in Haarlem painting flowers from various flower companies and winters in Amsterdam teaching ladies how
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202210256357d897ad020 Today is the last day of our special collaboration with the National Galleries of Scotland , and we’re wrapping up with a classic winter painting. We all know…winter is coming! Complementary colors of orange and blue enrich the picture, casting shadows of haystacks in the snow. They stand in a field west
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202210256357d6878aaa6 Edward Mitchell Bannister was the first African-American artist to receive popular acclaim. Working on boats along the Atlantic coast as a young man, the Canadian-born artist eventually settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where he became one of the first faculty members at the Rhode Island School of Design. Bannister is best known
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202210256357f21bd7f50 Frank Bramley was an English Post-Impressionist painter who specialized in interior design and devoted himself to combining natural and artificial light in his paintings. He is the founder of the square-brush technique. In this technique, he uses the flat side of a square brush to spread paint across the canvas in a
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