Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062262b3225db73cb Although Piet Mondrian is best known for his non-figurative paintings (which you can check out in our archives), his fundamental vision is rooted in landscape painting. He was especially inspired by the flat terrain of his native Holland, and he returned to this theme even after he participated in an exhibition of […]
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022052062875e1d7ae5e Some of the artists’ early work will leave you breathless. Master of loneliness and urban scenes, Edward Hopper created this pen and ink drawing titled Little Boy Looking at the Sea when he was 9 years old. Little Hopper drew it on the back of the transcript. The child in the picture,
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022052062875bde3b4ab It’s time for something unexpected. We all know the works of Gustav Klimt’s golden age (like The Kiss). But later in his life, Klimt was inspired by Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and began to paint in a different but still very decorative way. Here we see a pear tree in full bloom. While
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220520628758a1ea96e Dorrit Black was an Australian Modernist painter and printmaker, best known as a pioneer of Australian Modernism. A passionate advocate for modern art, she has devoted the rest of her life to teaching, promoting and practising modernism in Australia. She established the Centre for Modern Art in Sydney in 1931, Australia’s first
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022052062875602b2787 ” The Ladder of Divine Ascent “, also known as “Ladder to Heaven”, is a 12th-century icon from the most important and famous birthplace of the icon: St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai. This icon represents the theological teachings of St. John Climacus, also known as “Ladder John”, who described the Christian
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b62855fda7 Kobayashi Kiyochika is a Japanese ukiyo-e artist known for his polychrome woodblock prints and newspaper illustrations. His work documents Japan as it was rapidly modernized and westernized during the Meiji period (1868-1912), and employs a sense of light and shade known as kōsen-ga inspired by Western artistic techniques. The woodcut print we
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b5f8ce8f5a Rabindranath Tagore was a man of true renaissance. He was a learned poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter of the 20th century. He used contextual modernism to reshape Bengali literature, music and Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1913 he became the first non-European
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b5f051e437 When you hear the last names of our artists today, you might think Monet? Is that Monet? In fact, Blanche Hoschedé Monet was both Monet’s stepdaughter and Monet’s daughter-in-law. Sound complicated? Let me explain. Blanche Horsched is the second daughter of Ernest and Alice Horsched. Ernest was a businessman, he was a
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b5c3db6809 In 1889, when Paul Signac visited Cassis, a small fishing village in the Marseille region of southern France, he created the work “Cassis, Lombard Work No. 196”. He was very interested in the atmosphere and light in the village, and this work is one of five paintings he painted there. In a
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b586fc0876 I love the work of John Singer Sargent! This is an artist living in the United States, who is not only excellent in depicting royalty and society, but also has a delicate ease in depicting ordinary people. In fact, the artist became one of the most popular portrait painters of the late
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220511627b55ff871dc Agnolo Bronzino was an Italian Mannerist painter from Florence. He was also a dedicated artist to the powerful Medici family that ruled Florence at the time. He was first funded by the Medici family in 1539, when he was one of many artists chosen as Eleanor di Toledo, daughter of Cosimo I
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062062b0e7b65145b Although German artist Käthe Kollwitz is mostly known for the social themes that made her famous, the lithographic work we present today may come as a surprise. Female Nude with Green Shawl is a rich study of the slender back of a dark-haired woman surrounded by a pool of emerald green cloth,
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220516628202650ad26 The immortal Ishtar Gate in Babylon is undoubtedly one of the most impressive monuments during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar; it is 12 meters high and decorated with glazed tiles, marking the long access to the temple located in the city center. Beginning of the long parade avenue. The construction of Istar