Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202204036249c9f7263f7 On this day in 1844, Henri Rousseau, a man with an astonishing imagination, was born. Throughout his life he was ridiculed by critics and the public alike, but cutting-edge writers and artists alike discovered a fresh vision for the self-taught painter. His imagination created exotic landscapes in Paris’ botanical gardens, creating beasts …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202204036249c6a6382d6 Olga Wisinger-Florian (1844-1926) was an Austrian Impressionist painter whose main interest was the depiction of landscapes and flowers. Before becoming a painter, she worked as a concert pianist for several years, but had to interrupt her career due to health problems. In 1880, she became a pupil of Emil Jacob Schindler. The …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220419625e66e69561e Until June 12, 2022, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, you can visit the exhibition “Van Gogh and the Olive Garden” , which will bring together for the first time Vincent van Gogh’s paintings for the Olive Garden. Today, we offer a masterpiece from this exhibit, from the collection of the …
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202204036249be30043bb This painting belongs to the original series of four works exhibited at the National Gallery in Karlsruhe in 1855 and was dedicated to Frederick the Regent and his Prussian fiancee Louise. Painter Schilmer captured landscapes from the surroundings of Baden-Baden at different times of the day without targeting a cosmological scheme. He …
Käthe Kollwitz is a German artist who works in painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous art cycles depict the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. Despite the realism of her early work, her art is now more closely associated with expressionism. Kollwitz was the first woman to be elected not …
This is one of the most creative and vibrant portraits of the Renaissance. The Venetian collector Andrea Odoni (1488-1545) held a statue of Diana of Ephesus, a symbol of nature, in one hand, and touched a cross hanging on his chest in the other. , suggesting that Christianity was more important than nature and other …
We all know that Japanese master Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave of Kanagawa” is one of the most popular works of all time. But what is not known is that he also created another work with waves, “Soft Waves”. So, we present it today! The piece depicts a towering, curly wave. Katsushika Hokusai is clearly …
Edvard Munch was a complete Symbolist painter. In this painting he depicts a skeleton and a shapely naked woman hugging passionately. The painting depicts the intimate relationship between love and death, Eros and Thanatos. In the 1890s, Munch was very concerned with such themes, believing that life and death were inextricably linked, which can be …
Petro Kholodny’s famous work “The Story of a Girl and a Peacock” organically combines the subject’s mystical symbol of the peacock (the embodiment of the dream of eternal beauty) with the poetic and national painting traditions of Ukrainian folklore. The decoration of the painting is straight, with an emphasis on fine line painting, and the …
José María Tranquilino Francisco de Jesús Velasco Gómez Obregón, commonly known as José María Velasco, was a 19th-century Mexican polymath and a well-known painter who, through his paintings Mexican geography became a symbol of national identity. He was one of the most popular artists of his time and an internationally known artist. His painting “Valley …
Anita Clara Rée was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic. She was one of the most fascinating and mysterious artists of the 1920s, but at the same time she was somewhat unknown in the history of fine art. She is an independent woman who lives in the art world between tradition and modernism, …
The watercolors we show today present something quite disturbing – a cosmic war between good and evil. Victory or defeat is the fate of mankind. This is how the romantic poet and artist William Blake imagined the scenes in Revelation. The final verse of this New Testament contains a series of warnings to Christians to …
It’s Sunday…so, who’s up for a picnic? In the mid-1880s, Seurat made frequent trips to the Isle de la Grande on the Seine. Not far from Paris, the island is a very popular destination among swimmers, Sunday walkers and picnickers. It also attracted artists like Seurat, who found modern Parisians enjoying leisure time a fascinating …