🏅Badges! Join the Weekly Race HERE and share your scrapbook HERE
🍩 Friends Battle Royale! Vote now HERE
🌈New in the Community? Say Hi HERE
🍩 Friends Battle Royale! Vote now HERE
🌈New in the Community? Say Hi HERE
🌈 Pot of Gold! Infos on the event HERE
☘️ 300 Gold Bars to be shared among the winners of our Gold Hunt HERE
💜 Women's Month! Celebrate with us HERE and HERE
☘️ 300 Gold Bars to be shared among the winners of our Gold Hunt HERE
💜 Women's Month! Celebrate with us HERE and HERE
Comments
The Wounded Angel
The painting with two gloomy boys carrying an angel on a stretcher with bandaged forehead and a bloodied wing makes people curious in a second. And the direct gaze of the boy to the right touches the viewers ‘soul.
The composition is still considered as one of the finest work of art since 1903, and it is in the same year it was produced by Finnish symbolist painter Hugo Simberg.
The painting was a source of strength for Simberg, as he had been suffering from meningitis from a very long time. In 2006, the painting was voted Finland’s “National Painting” through a contest organized by the Ateneum art museum.
- Report
6 · 1Helpful 2Woah! Sweet 3Love HahaOur daily bread
Painted in 1886 “Our daily bread” by Anders zorn from Sweden, depicts his mother sitting at the edge of a ditch, and cooking potatoes for the harvesters. The painting is from his private collection and shows his mother’s sacrifices.
He was in his mid 20s when he painted it to pay a tribute to his mother’s love for him and his big joint family. The composition came in public domain, after the artist’s death in 1920. After that it was purchased by National museum Stockholm.
- Report
6 · 1Helpful 2Woah! Sweet 3Love HahaThe Swing
The Swing also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work.
- Report
5 · 1Helpful 2Woah! Sweet 2Love Haha"The Ladies-in-waiting"
"The Ladies-in-waiting" is a 1656 painting in the Museo del Prado in Madrid, by Diego Velázquez, the leading artist of the Spanish Golden Age. Its complex and enigmatic composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures depicted. Because of these complexities, Las Meninas has been one of the most widely analyzed works in Western painting.
The painting is believed by F. J. Sánchez Cantón to depict the main chamber in the Royal Alcazar of Madrid during the reign of King Philip IV of Spain, and presents several figures, most identifiable from the Spanish court, captured, according to some commentators, in a particular moment as if in a snapshot. Some look out of the canvas towards the viewer, while others interact among themselves. The young Infanta Margaret Theresa is surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. Just behind them, Velázquez portrays himself working at a large canvas. Velázquez looks outwards, beyond the pictorial space to where a viewer of the painting would stand.
In the background there is a mirror that reflects the upper bodies of the king and queen. They appear to be placed outside the picture space in a position similar to that of the viewer, although some scholars have speculated that their image is a reflection from the painting Velázquez is shown working on.
Detail showing Philip IV's daughter, the Infanta Margaret Theresa. Most of her left cheek was repainted after being damaged in the fire of 1734.
Detail of doña María de Sotomayor, showing Velázquez's free brushwork on her dress
- Report
6 · 1Helpful 3Woah! Sweet 2Love Haha(Absinthe Drinker)
Picasso produced this work in the autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old.
The theme of man's loneliness in a cafe, of isolation and emptiness, was not new to French art in the second half of the 19th century and could be found in the works of Degas and of Picasso's much-admired Toulouse-Lautrec. But in the paintings by the young Spaniard the theme acquired a previously unknown sense of drama.
Our lonely heroine sits at a table in a cafe, the background a dirty-red wall which reinforces the sense of discomfort. Emphasizing the flatness of the canvas, the colour of the walls and the bluish tone of the marble table seem to press the space inwards, around the woman, enclosing her in her hopeless loneliness. In the pose of the absinthe brinker, in her face, we can identify the outcast: the totally enclosed space of her body, the expressive distortion of the right hand, seem to indicate the tension of a coiled spring.
Picasso strictly boxed in the immobile face - the hand acts as a support, its precise perpendicular running through the imperfect oval of the figure, while a protecting hand clasps the shoulder. Everything reinforces the sense of inner tension and cuts the figure off from the world around. On the basis of real observations in a cafe Picasso created a generalised and timeless symbol of the tragedy of life.
On the back of the painting, concealed beneath heavy overpainting in blue and yellow, is a woman's head, probably a fragment of a work which did not satisfy the artist.
It is now in Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Report
5 · 1Helpful 1Woah! 1Sweet 2Love HahaThree Musicians
Pablo Picasso, 1921, Three Musicians, oil on canvas, 200.7 × 222.9 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Pablo Picasso, 1921, (Three Musicians), oil on canvas, 204.5 × 188.3 cm, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Three Musicians is the title of two similar collage and oil paintings by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921 in Fontainebleau near Paris, France, and exemplify the Synthetic Cubist style; the flat planes of color and "intricate puzzle-like composition" echoing the arrangements of cutout paper with which the style originated. These paintings each colorfully represent three musicians wearing masks in the tradition of the popular Italian theater Commedia dell'arte.
Each painting features a Harlequin, a Pierrot, and a monk, who are generally believed to represent Picasso, Guillaume Apollinaire, and Max Jacob, respectively. Apollinaire and Jacob, both poets, had been close friends of Picasso during the 1910s. However, Apollinaire died of the Spanish flu in 1918, while Jacob decided to enter a monastery in 1921.
One version is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City; the other version is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
- Report
5 · 1Helpful 1Woah! Sweet 3Love HahaThe Night Café
The Night Café is an oil painting created by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh in September 1888 in Arles. Its title is inscribed lower right beneath the signature. The painting is owned by Yale University and is currently held at the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut.
- Report
5 · 1Helpful 2Woah! Sweet 2Love HahaFlower Beds in Holland
Bulb Fields, also known as Flower Beds in Holland, is an oil painting created by Vincent van Gogh in early 1883. It was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 1983.
It depicts the rectangular plots of blue, yellow, pink and red hyacinths grown by a Dutch bulb merchant. The low vantage point creates a panoramic view of the field of colourful spring flowers, with thatched cottages and leafless trees in the background. The regular composition allows Van Gogh to explore his interest in perspective.
- Report
5 · Helpful 1Woah! 2Sweet 2Love HahaPortrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is a painting by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907.
The portrait is the final and most fully representative work of Klimt's golden phase. It was the first of two depictions of Adele by Klimt - the second was completed in 1912.
Detail
- Report
5 · Helpful 1Woah! 1Sweet 3Love Haha“Spain and the Philippines”
“Spain and the Philippines”, is an 1886 oil on wood by Filipino painter, The painting is a centerpiece art at the Luna Hall of the Lopez Memorial Museum.
- Report
5 · Helpful 2Woah! 1Sweet 2Love HahaThe Ninth Wave
"The Ninth Wave" is an 1850 painting by the Russian Armenian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work.
The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves.
It depicts a sea after a night storm and people facing death attempting to save themselves by clinging to debris from a wrecked ship.
The painting has warm tones, which reduce the sea's apparent menacing overtones and a chance for the people to survive seems plausible.
This painting shows both the destructiveness and beauty of nature.
- Report
5 · Helpful 2Woah! 1Sweet 2Love HahaLady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489–1490 and one of Poland's national treasures. The portrait's subject is Cecilia Gallerani, painted at a time when she was the mistress of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Leonardo was in the Duke's service.
It is one of only four portraits of women painted by Leonardo, the others being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, and La belle ferronnière.
- Report
5 · Helpful Woah! 1Sweet 4Love HahaZodiac calendar for La Plume (1897) By Alphonse Mucha.
Decorative panel from The Seasons - 'Summer (1896) by Alphonse Mucha.
Flowers - the Rose (1898) by Alphonse Mucha
- Report
5 · Helpful 2Woah! Sweet 3Love HahaPoster for Grafton Galleries by Eugène Grasset (1893)
- Report
4 · Helpful 1Woah! Sweet 3Love HahaDaydream (1897) by Alphonse Mucha.
- Report
5 · Helpful 1Woah! 1Sweet 3Love Haha