Vincent Van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential artists of all time; however, he spent hard times as a poor and obscure artist during his lifetime. The fact that Vincent Van Gogh sold only one painting during his brief life supports the...
Frida Kahlo is Mexico’s most well-known, notorious craftsman. From her monobrow to her bloom decorated hairdos, her aesthetics gathered nearly as much intrigued as her craftsmanship that was overwhelmed by self-portraiture; of her assessed 140 works of art, 55 are self-portraits. Whereas numerous considered her...
Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous female artists in the world. She is considered by many to be one of Mexico’s best artists. Frida was a painter who is known for drawing inspiration from elements of Mexican culture. She is celebrated for her...
Frida Kahlo, 1907 – 1954, is Mexico’s best-known figure; an acclaimed artist, an activist, a feminist, a bisexual and disabled person who dealt with tremendous physical pain and personal turmoil in her life. In dealing with that she was able to uniquely transmute all that...
Freedom is to self-govern. Freedom is about being on your own to not have anyone looking over you consistently making sure you do the right thing and not the wrong concept, but does freedom exist? Freedom is a broad statement that we hold close to...
Thesis Throughout the 1980s there was one particular artist that had the gift of translation. He was able to take art from the street and translate it into beautiful pieces in which could be understood in galleries. This artist was Jean-Michel Basquiat. He is most...
A high school dropout, a panhandler, not a real person, but a legend. From sleeping on park benches, to becoming a featured artist of renowned art galleries, Jean Michel Basquiat managed to achieve more in his short, 8-year long career, than most artists do in...
The great artist Salvador Dali once said, “Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.” He surely put this quote into practice when he created what some consider to be his greatest work, and what many consider...
Introduction Salvador Dali is one of the greatest surrealist artists who have changed the art world with his unique style and innovative concepts. Dali in real sense is a creative genius and a precocious artist who has been influenced by metaphysics and cubism. Dali transforms...
By many, Salvador Dalí is considered one of the most influential and revolutionary artists of the early 20th century. Throughout his life, Dalí was influenced by many things: his childhood, his travels across Europe, the Dada philosophy, and the many artistic movements of the 1900s....
All of Dali’s life he was troubled by numerous issues and complications however, he connected with these problems, and his paintings allowed him a way to express himself in ways, that when looked at carefully, many of us can relate to his childhood and his...
The Early Life Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, a multifaceted genius born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese near Arezzo, Italy, remains an enduring figure of the High Renaissance movement in the 16th century. This polymath was not confined to a single domain but excelled...
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni has been considered to be one of the most inspirational and talented artists that lived during the early modern world. The western world during his time was undergoing possibly the most significant period of change since the fall of the...
Though “notion of genius” can be defined as many things in various ways, two of the most influential Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni are still well recognized as the genius of art today. Both Leonardo, whose worldly famous for...
During the year 1475 one of the greatest sculptors was born. He was a revolutionary, or in other words a sudden, radical, or complete change. But he also created new techniques and style to express emotion through his sculptures and paintings. He also introduced or...
The saying usually goes, a jack of all trades, but a master of none – although when it comes to Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti he was not only a jack of all trades, but a master of each and everyone. Michelangelo was considered the greatest...
Michelangelo Buonarroti, known to most of the world as Michelangelo, was born in the small village of Caprese, Italy on March 6th, 1475. The greatest of the Renaissance artists died in 1564, but not before leaving a mark on fine art that is still appreciated...
The Creation of Adam is a fresco painting created by Michelangelo Buonarroti, or more commonly known as Michelangelo. The well-known painter of the renaissance era lived throughout Italy from 1475 to 1564. After being born in Caprese his family moved to Florence where Michelangelo’s art...
Michelangelo was a Renaissance artist who lived from 1475 to 1564. He changed art in the Renaissance by sculpting and painting with precision and detail that had never been done before, particularly focused on the human body. This change was revolutionary and has changed the...