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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...
Artsy Sister Talks About Still Life
I did a new video blog. The topic was still life. It is quite the underappreciated type of painting. It has an interesting history, nonetheless. Still Life are paintings of inanimate objects. This includes flowers, fruits, objects, bones and jewelry. The first still life where painting by the Egyptians in tombs. The fruits where painting with “magic paint”. They were supposed to feed the dead in the afterlife. The Greeks saw these paintings. Not understanding their purpose, they proceeded to use food items as room decorations. The romans added skulls to their still life, as a type of momento mori. ...
15 Things You Should Know About Michelangelo
I made an Youtube Video about 15 things you should know about Michelangelo. He was a painter, sculptor, poet and architect. There were not a lot of European artist that could do all 4 well. His full name was Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni. He would write it as Michel Angelo. He wanted folks to focus on the Angel part of his name. He lived till the ripe of age of 88. He was also an old miser. When they did an inventory of his stock, he had two unfinished sculptures and 8000 gold coins under his bed. He didn’t...