Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022050362710826cbef7 Gustav Klimt is best known for his Byzantine-inspired golden age, the famous “The Kiss” being a prime example. But towards the end of his life, the artist began to paint in a way inspired by Impressionism and some Post-Impressionism. The Attersee Landscape we present today is one of his most successful and …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202205036271036148ec3 Bill Traylor, an African-American from Lowndes County, Alabama, was a self-taught artist who is now considered one of the most important American artists of the 20th century. Traylor was born in slavery and spent most of his life as a tenant farmer after his emancipation. It was not until after 1939, after …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202205036271003a8ddf0 The painting was exhibited in 1874 at the first exhibition of the Impressionist legend in the studio of photographer and painter Nadal. Critics competed with one another for mocking laughter. Pissarro’s simple paintings were considered an insult at the time: his subjects did not maintain any “classical” stance; objectivity was exchanged for …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202205036270ff30033c1 The “sick child” theme was common in late 19th-century art, especially favored by female artists. For Scheffbeck, the topic was personal—as a little girl, she suffered a severe hip injury and had an illness throughout her childhood and beyond. But at the same time, her take on the topic is about hope, …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202205036270fdbb9d132 After the Franco-Prussian War, Claude Monet, who was in exile in London during this period, went to the Netherlands immediately. He and his family stopped at Zaandam, a town near Amsterdam popular with tourists. “A painter can do it all his life,” he wrote to his friend Camille Pissarro. When Paris was …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220217620e16f166e86 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, …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220406624db8ca01a25 It’s time to celebrate our special Collaboration Month with the Statens Museum for Kunst . Let’s take a look at a very interesting painting by Carl Bloch this time. It is also worth noting that the museum is preparing its largest exhibition to date on Karl Bloch , which will open in …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220418625d5a63dc2b9 The bust of Nefertiti is the most famous work in the Egyptian Museum. The sculpture was found in the studio of artist Thutmose, and its shape suggests it was a typical sculptural model. Computed tomography (CT) examination confirmed that the image itself consisted of a limestone core, with several coats of plaster …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220418625d55614cd8f The work we show today was created by the Ottoman calligrapher Abd al-Qadir Hisari, who was active in 1766 and 1767. The Ottoman galleon pictured is made up of the names of the seven sleepers of Ephesus mentioned in the Qur’an, while the tiny inscriptions that make up most of the rest …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220418625d523626414 Art history is not just about Western art. At Art of the Day, we really want to showcase art from the rest of the world. Time for some Mughal art! The Mughal Empire was an early modern Islamic empire in South Asia. According to tradition, the empire was founded by Babur in …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220418625d459e5d272 French artist Robert Delaunay, who co-founded the Orphism art movement with his wife Sonia Delaunay and others, painted nine nude women for this movement Read the subject’s work. In general, Delaunay rarely painted nude figures. Unlike many other abstract painters of the early 20th century, however, Delaunay also painted figurative works. In …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220605629d083904993 Until June 12, 2022, you can visit the Van Gogh and the Olive Groves exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which features Vincent van Gogh’s olive grove theme for the first time The paintings are reassembled and displayed. Taking this opportunity, we present one of these paintings today. What did …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220406624db849a360d Today is Sunday, so we continue our thematic month with the collections of the National Gallery of Denmark . Today we have a very interesting artist. Perhaps the Danish artist who draws the most inspiration from Japanese art remains the relatively unknown Henriette Hahn-Brinckmann. In Hahn-Brinkman’s polychrome woodcut, the 1904 work Evening …