by Hansini 2021-08-08 The Mona Lisa portrait called Gioconda in Italian is the most popular, talk about, visited, written about, and valuable painting. Created in 1503-1506 by the Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci, it is now placed in Louvre Museum in France, Paris. In 1517, Leonardo da Vinci moved to France in Château du Clos Lucé, […]
By James Carter In order to fully understand the difference between modern art and contemporary art, it is vital to relate the narrative of Gustave Courbet, a French painter who pioneered the Realist movement in the nineteenth century. Most prominent painters of his period, including Courbet, questioned the Romanticism idea (you can read all about […]
Amrita Sher-Gil had a great artistic connection with Hungary. She had developed a great passion for the paintings done by Brueghel. Amrita had taken some of the paintings of Brueghel as inspiration for her paintings, too. These paintings made with such impressions were meant to be for the Hungarian market, perhaps. While living in Hungary, […]
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting, that is felt rather than seen” – Leonardo da Vinci The french women had felt the painting they saw and they produced several masterpieces, too. Let us talk about some of the prolific women painters. It is said that the paintings are […]
COMPILED BY ARTE LUSSO TEAM There is a strong correlation between art and film. Film is a form of art itself and in fact it is one of the most advanced forms of art created by man. Some of the generalized purposes of art and film that unite them are to create a powerful emotional […]
Investing in art doesn’t just add to your home décor, it makes you more introspective. If done correctly, it can also drastically increase your net worth. According to recent studies, the price of art has gone up more than 1000per cent in the past four decades
Art has always been tightly interconnected with questions about morality and ethics. Wittgenstein (among many others) even said: “Ethics and Aesthetics are one.” and in reality liking or hating a painting or sculpture isn’t that far away from liking or hating a person, idea or belief.
Many of us may be familiar wit the book Steal Like an Artist by written by Austin Kleon. In this book he describes how countless famous artists have been “stealing” other artists styles, ideas and just about anything else that they deemed valuable and used everything in their own work. But apart from a marketer’s standpoint, should this really be called stealing?
Degas was born in 1834, the scion of a wealthy banking family, and was educated in the classics, including Latin, Greek, and ancient history, at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. His father recognized his son’s artistic gifts early and encouraged his efforts at drawing by taking him frequently to Paris museums.
At the age of 40, Sir Winston Churchill found himself at a career low: After the World War I attack he ordered on Gallipoli, Turkey, went horrifically awry, he was demoted from his role as First Lord of the Admiralty in May 1915. He resigned from his government post and became an officer in the army. Deflated of power and consumed with anxiety, he took up an unexpected new hobby: painting.
