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Thanksgiving Told Through 10 Artworks
I wanted to show you 10 nice thanksgiving paintings and drawings. The first artwork is a lithograph by Winslow Homer. It shows the tradition of hanging up the riffle. Thanksgiving was created after the civil war. It originally was a celebration of folks being thankful that they were not at war with one another anymore. John Schutler, Home To Thanksgiving, 1867 features a business man returning home for the holidays. It is a more traditional Thanksgiving painting. Henry Tanner’s Thankful poor shows Thanksgiving in an African American home. The old man is thankful that he is no longer slave. Yes,...
5 Female Painters You Should Know
I made a new painter blog. I wanted you to know of the works of 5 of my favorite lady painters. The first one on the list is Angelica Kauffman. She was a Swiss Neoclassical painter (1741-1807). She was a student of Sir Joshua Reynolds. She made most of her works in Britain. She started her life relatively poor. Her father taught her how to paint. As a child prodigy, she mastered painting quickly, as well as 5 languages. She made her money making portraits of nobles and Queens. She made a fancy painting of Maria Antonietta. She also made...
5 Surrealist Painters You Should Know
I wanted you to know some of my favorite surrealist painters. I also show you 5 of their paintings. I also made a video blog about them. The first painter I wanted to talk about is Micheal Parkes. He his still alive and well in Spain. He was born in 1944 in the US. He ended up working in Spain. He created his unique style during a time he had taken a sabbatical from painting. While meditating in India, he found enlightenment or something close to it. His artworks comes about after long periods of meditation. He is both a...
20 Spooky Paintings and Illustrations by Various paintings
Halloween is just around the corner. So, I wanted to show you 20 spooky paintings. The first one features a water sprite by Theodor Kittelsen. The painting is called Noekken. I like the ambience of it. The second drawing is by Albrecht Durer. It features a scene from the apocalypse. The angel looks pretty trippy. Arnold Bocklin is the next featured painter. He painted war or the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse. Caspar Friedrick painted a creepy monastery ruins. Most of his paintings feature creepy nature. Danter Rosetti did doublegangers. His work is called How they met themselves. It was...
5 Landscape Painters You Should Know
I wanted to tell you about my favorite landscape painters. I also show you 5 of my favorite paintings by each of the artists. The first is Caspar David Friedrich. He is a German painter. He painted from 1774 to 1840. He was a romanticist painter. He wanted to convey an emotion using landscapes as a subject matter. He often paints gloomy or spooky subjects. He tended to suffer from Chronic depression. Later in his life, he isolated himself from his friends in order to paint. The second painter I want to show you is Childre Hassam. He is an...