Metomorphosis of Narcissus Salvador Dali was a Spanish artist who in the 20th century was considered one of the best. He started his interest in art with a man named Ramon Pichots, who was his first role model for painting. Sometime after meeting his role model, Salvador would pursue his passion for painting and attend Municipal drawing School. While he was attending school, he received formal art training, learned draftsmanship, painting and engraving from Senor Nunez. His father started an exhibition of his son’s charcoal drawings in their home in the 1917.
His subject matter consists of mostly classical and religious. The main characteristic of Mantegna is his intense observation of details and the fine drawing of his paintings. Most of his most famous works were after he left his home town of Padua. While he was in Padua, he was an apprentice under an artist named Francesco Squarcione and at the age of eleven. He was much influenced by Squarcione’s love of ancient Roman art.
Whether he was using collage techniques, fusing, clippings from a magazine or a stroke of a brush he created powerful art that will be in minds forever. His visual recollections of the south drawn from real-life memories and stories are anything but usual. His painting “The Family” (1941) demonstrates Bearden’s love for the Cubist style and through this he addresses family’s complex relationships and rituals that were able to tie into my own real-life experiences. Romare Bearden demonstrates that you can take something simple and turn it into something beautiful and meaningful, and that is something he will always be remembered for. The painting, “The Family” can be easily be defined as a
At the Academy of San Francisco in Spain he produced work in the style of Velasquez and Goya. He also learned the Fresco techniques of the Italians in Florence, Italy. Muralsim in Mexico was another great influence that would shape the direction of his work in the future. There he also studied Rivera and Orozco. Botero was a painter and a sculptor whose work was undeniably unique; by some his style was called Boterosim.
Artists retook classical characteristics and also introduced new ones as: realistic features, perfect bodies, background, light perspective, and perfectly proportionate figures. One notorious artist from this period was Paolo Veronese. He was an Italian painter named Paolo Cagliari but known as Paolo Veronese because he was born in Verona. He lived and worked in Venice. When he was 14 years old he started painting as an apprentice in a local workshop of the artist Antonio Badile and later he married his master’s daughter.
A few of his early works that he completed while in Crete include Dormition of the Virgin (before 1567), The Adoration of the Magi (1565-1567), and St. Luke Painting the Virgin and Child (1567). In 1567, El Greco traveled to Venice to study Italian Renaissance painting and pursue his career as an artist. He was taught by two great Italian painters named Titian and Tintoretto. A couple of his more famous paintings that he created during his time in Venice were The Miracle of Christ Healing the Blind (1567-1570) and Christ Driving the Money Changers from the Temple (1570). These paintings show El Greco’s progression in learning the Western style of painting and the ability to paint more realistic figures and lighting.
Both legendary dada and surrealist Max Ernst and key contemporary painter Anselm Kiefer employ similar strategies to recontextualise ideas in their artworks. Throughout his career Ernst has created a wide range of works that are concerned with the avant-garde and surreal. Kiefer has always been interested in combining moral and aesthetic issues to create emotive, large scale works which reference the past. Ernst was born in Brühl, Germany in 1891. At university he studied philosophy and psychiatry, while taking a deep interest in painting.
But once he heard of the Guernica bombings, he knew that he had the perfect subject that would make an impact on the people and began painting almost 15 days after the bombing occurred. Picasso had always been politically aware of the situation in Spain although he said he was not a “political artist” he changed his mind after this. Francisco Goya was one of the people who really influenced Picasso to create “Guernica”. Goya’s main focuses was on war and man’s cruelty. In his painting ‘Third of May’ was said to be the first modern war picture.
During the time, Northern Renaissance artworks concentrated on the idea of nature or naturalism. This realistic and down to earth art visually showed the real world. The artist, Jan Van Eyck, endorsed and perfected naturalism in his artwork. In the early times, he painted books for hours, such as small prayer books, like lavish paintings of scared and daily scenes. Not only he was a good painter, he was also very good and creative when it came to expressing his thoughts and emotions.
In a series of visits to America, from 1930 to 1940, Rivera brought his unique vision to public spaces and galleries, enlightening and inspiring artists and laymen alike. Diego Rivera was born in Guanajuato, Mexico in 1886. He began to study painting