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Gustave Courbet Realism Paintings
Gustave Courbet was a realism artist. He was concerned with the problems of the poor and the state of art. During his days, realism was not considered fashionable. When his work got rejected by the Salon, he opened his own Pavilion of Realism in front of the Salon. During his time, art was supposed to teach you a lesson. It should also be original and innovative. As a proponent of this new avant garde art, Courbet tried hard to paint in his own unique way. Courbet's realism entailed painting something from his own life. Therefore, Courbet never painted angels...
Micheal Parkes Dreamscape Paintings
Micheal Parkes is a talented dreamscape artist. He was born in the US, but he currently resides in Spain. Many of his paintings are mass produced in the form of illustrations. He also does sculptures. For our purposes, we will focus on Parkes’ paintings. The first one is called Another. Basically, we see a jester with a ring and swam. In painting, such maidens placed as such are unsightly, composition wise. However, Parkes decided to put her there to draw your eyes to her. As for the swans, Parkes has like a dozen paintings with swans. He likes...
Annibale Carraci Baroque Paintings
Annibale Carraci was a wonderful baroque artist. He is mostly know for his Farnese ceiling Paintings. These paintings feature scenes from Virgil’s Metamosphosis. That book told tales of the love of the gods. For our purpose, I featured a few of his Greek paintings. Some are from the Farnese ceiling. The first painting shows Diana. She was awaken by a faun. He is inviting her to his Bacchanal. The drapery and the hairdos are quite realistic. Diana seems a bit frightened. By the leg of the goddess we see a faun brat with a very creepy expression. This next painting...
Jose Royo, the Modern Day Impressionist Artist
As it happens, whenever I get bored of rating popular culture, I rate some paintings. Today, I wanted to feature the artwork of Jose Royo. He is a Spanish Impressionist artist. He is still alive and painting well. I think he has about 150 something paintings. From his work, I found that ,at least, 46 of his paintings were 5 stars worthy. Before I rate these paintings I want to explain Impressionism. Impressionism is the study of light and its effect on colors. All that matter is that the paintings look shinny and they give you the flashing impression of...
Diego Velazquez Baroque Painter
Diego Velazquez made his painting career as a court painter. In his early years, he distinguished himself for his genra paintings. That was a type of painting theme that focused on the poor. Once he made a name for himself, some influential friends helped him become the court painter of Phillip IV. Above, we see Velazquez's earliest painting. It is simply a profile of a man. Usually, such profiles were painted with the sitter in a stoic expression. Velazquez choose to have his character with a surprised expression. Thus, this early portrait was full of both realism and emotion....