The controversial French painter, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting.
The Burial At Ornans, one of Courbet’s most important works, records the funeral of his grand uncle which he attended in September 1848.
People who attended the funeral were the models for the painting. Courbet painted “the very people who had been [...]
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Google Doodle celebrating Juan Gris’s 125th birthday by showing snippets of Juan Gris cubism artworks on Google’s search page.
His popular works include “Portrait of Picasso 1912″, “Man With A Pipe, Portrait of Juan Legua, 1911“, “Portrait of Maurice Raynal 1912“, “Self-Portrait, 1912“, and “Portrait of the Artist’s Mother“.
Often known as Juan Gris (March 23, 1887 [...]
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Andrew Wyeth (1917 ~ 2009) was a well-known American painter. specifically as a realist artist. Most of his artwork involve people, figurative and portrait paintings, done in a realist style.
Below some of his famous quotes.
I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. [...]
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Just middle of last year, one of the Pablo Picasso’s portrait paintings fetched nearly $52 million with commission at a Christie’s auction. That portrait painting is none other than the aesthetically fine painting, entitled “Portrait of Angel Fernandez de Soto“, signed and dated in 1903. As mentioned by Christie’s, all the proceeds will benefit to The [...]
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