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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220923632d623005aba Japanese woodblock prints are perfect for Halloween. Many of these works depict stories from Japanese legends, filled with demons, skeletons, and scary and creepy scenes. Perfect for today! This striking work depicts the story of Princess Takiyasha, the daughter of the warlord Heishōmon, who leads a rebellion in Kyoto. Due to the […]

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220829630d22bf36f5d We’re continuing our special month with the Denver Art Museum to check out their collection. Enjoy! : ) Robert Henri ( 1865-1929) grew up in Cozzard, Nebraska, and Denver, Colorado, and studied painting in Paris, where he developed a strong sympathy with Impressionism before moving to to New York, where he became

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022091563230ac948f16 Today we are going to introduce an unexpected masterpiece. In Buddhism, a mandala is a complex meditation tool, a complex representation of the universe, with different parts of the universe representing different aspects of Buddhist teachings. In an advanced practice called tantra, meditators dissolve their self-image of an ordinary, fixed “I” and

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022091563230b46a21e6 Giovanna Garzoni was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, specializing in still lifes and miniatures. She was also one of the most accomplished botanical artists of the 17th century. Her first job at age 16 is said to be a herbarium pharmacist. Today we present a still life painting she perfected

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220829630d1ec5aca04 Time to continue our monthly feature with the Denver Art Museum ‘s collection. enjoy your meal! ? In 1883, Claude Monet, his second wife, Alice Horsched, and their eight children moved to Giverny, a town about an hour’s drive from Paris, where he spent the rest of his life . “These landscapes

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-20220905631612ac3143d Tom Thomson was the most influential and enduringly popular Canadian artist of the early 20th century. A strong, ironic, yet gentle artist with a keen sense, he was an early inspiration for the “School of Seven”. He was one of the first painters to present Canadian landscapes in a sharp visual form.

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022090563160ffa94a50 Chikusa Kiyani was a “Japanese painting” painter and painting teacher in the Taisho and Showa periods in Japan. Born in Osaka, she went to Tokyo to learn from the Japanese “beauty painting” painter Ikeda Jiaoyuan. In 1915, Qianzhong returned to Osaka and studied under the tutelage of Hengfu Kitano. She later established

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202003185e7244af891ec Anna Ancher often painted small paintings with one or two figures, but around 1900 she experimented with large works with many figures, like this one today. She created many sketches for the painting in which she experimented with various colors and tested various compositional elements. The painting was exhibited at the Spring

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202209026311ea42abbac When Vincent van Gogh arrived in Arles in February 1888 in search of the bright atmosphere of southern France, he did not use the pointilist and Impressionist styles of painting , but prefer blended forms and brighter colors. This stylistic change is clearly shown in The Stevedores of Arles, where the painter

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202209026311e95051ce6 Berthe Morisot was a French painter and a member of the Paris Impressionist scene. In 1874 she participated in the first exhibition of the “unrecognized” Impressionists, including Paul, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Augus Te Renoir and Alfred Heathley et al. From 1874 to 1886 Morisot participated in all but one

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202209026311e6b8ec70e The days in Poland, where we are, are getting shorter and shorter. Let’s elevate the mood with these beautiful flowers from the Mauritshuis Royal Gallery in The Hague . Enjoy! : ) Abraham Mignon, or Minjon, was a still life painter. He is known for his floral works, fruit still lifes, forest

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202209026311e4d9cfd6f Dutch painter Leo Gestel initially studied light in indoor settings, but in the summer of 1909 he moved outdoors. He painted along the rivers near Amsterdam and found a home in rural areas near Nijmegen and Montfort. Depicting landscapes enabled him to express himself more powerfully. Nature has provided him with many

Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-202210106343bdfa1e836 Did you know that most of the Greek sculptures we know today are actually Roman copies? The Greek originals have not survived because they were made of bronze, a very valuable and useful material in times of war. The Marble Head of an Athlete is a reproduction of a Greek bronze statue