Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c465f9cfe5f The Fall of Man, the Fall of Adam, or simply, the Fall, is a Christian term used to describe the transition of the first man and woman from a state of sinless obedience to God to a state of sinful disobedience. All are recorded in chapters 1 to 3 of Genesis. At […]
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c4438cdde6d On Monday we celebrated International Cat Day; it’s time for the wild cats! ? Horace Pippin was the first self-taught African-American artist to achieve national acclaim. Despite a wound to his right arm during World War I, he never gave up painting. Pippin was good at depicting everyday events and historical figures,
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c44211dabbe Vincent van Gogh was known for his landscapes, still lifes, and self-portraits, but he also created many portraits during his lifetime. Today we introduce you to one of them – “Papa Dongy”, one of his three paintings depicting Julian Dongy. Tanguy was a painting supplies dealer who sold art supplies and an
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c43a9cd7e58 This is one of the paintings of grass and insects painted on the eight screens by the famous female painter Shin Shim-dang (1504-1551) in the middle of the Joseon Dynasty. She is not only an artist, but also a writer, calligrapher and poet. She is the mother of the Korean Confucian scholar
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c4084962f40 In his seminal 1912 book Concerning the Spiritual in Art , Wassily Kandinsky argued that art could transcend the imitation of the material world and, in his words, stimulate “the vibration of the soul” . As the richest and most musical form of artistic expression, Kandinsky pioneered abstraction, believing that the physical
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022070562c3fa01ddd71 Today is a special day – International Cat Day! To be honest, for some, every day is a cat day ? But for today’s occasion, we have prepared this lovely cat drawing for you. It was created by Dutch-born Belgian artist Henriette Ronner-Knip, known for her portraits of cats. Her paintings feature
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862bb0822786c0 You may know that every Sunday of the month is a special collaboration month event where we showcase collections from a museum. This August we decided to focus on a specific artistic theme, and this time it will be… dance! We have to start with Edgar Degas, because he was fascinated by
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862babfd9bc0ec Fidelia Bridges was an American artist of the late 19th century. She is known for her nuanced paintings that capture flowers, plants and birds in their natural environment. Although she started out as an oil painter, she later gained a reputation as an expert in watercolors. She was the only woman among
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862bace5b001d1 Odo Dobrovolski is a Polish-German artist from Lviv. He is mainly known for his graphic art works, especially watercolors, gouaches and prints. Today’s work is one of the earliest the artist created before going to Paris. The work is based on the last photograph of the cafe before it closed in 1907;
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862babbf85e06a In 1893, Monet, who loved gardening, bought a plot of land near his Giverny property, intending to build something “that would be both a pleasure and a distinct theme”. Hence his water lily garden. In 1899 he began working on 18 landscapes of wooden footbridges spanning a pond, and completed 12 paintings,
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862baba328c065 This beautiful coloured woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai belongs to the “Famous Bridge Scenery in the Provinces” series. Tenma Bridge is the closest bridge to Osaka Castle among the “Osaka Three Bridges” which are the furthest upstream of the Yudo River. Here, Katsushika Hokusai showed scenes from the night of the Tenma
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Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862bac4805ab00 Pare Watana (also known as Pare Watene) is a figure in the Māori Ngāti Maru culture who is famous for his beauty. Her prominence can be discerned by the rare Wea feathers in her hair and her mere pounamu (a short, wide-bladed weapon shaped like an enlarged teardrop). The painting is from
Original link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/dailyartartwork/img-2022062862bab51daf226 “Dancing on the Shore” in 1900 was one of 22 paintings in the group “The Ribbon of Life”. The term was coined by Munch to describe a series of paintings in the 1890s about love, disease and death. Notable works are The Scream, The Virgin Mary, The Vampire, Anxiety, The Melancholy and
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