Gizem Saka

Gizem Saka is a turkish artist and an economist. Her paintings are beautiful and are well appreciated. Saka’s art has the decorative elements of the Middle East and the colors of the Mediterranean. Saka uses her background as a muse. Her main themes are women, reading,Ottoman period Iznik tiles and figures. In an interview, she mentioned that due to the large number of women in her family, she mainly observed feminine joys and sorrows.

 Wedding Dance

  Istanbul traffic

 Red tree

Let's have lunch

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http://gizemsaka.com/

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas is one of the best painters France has ever produced.His paintings are so beautiful that you'll simply fall in love with.
Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot. The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colors, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy. They wanted to express what they saw in that exact moment.
In many subsequent paintings dancers were shown backstage or in rehearsal, emphasizing their status as professionals doing a job. From 1870 Degas increasingly painted ballet subjects, partly because they sold well and provided him with needed income after his brother's debts had left the family bankrupt. Degas began to paint café life as well, in works such as L’Absinthe and Singer with a Glove. His paintings often hinted at narrative content in a way that was highly ambiguous; for example, Interior (which has also been called The Rape) has presented a conundrum to art historians in search of a literary source—Thérèse Raquin has been suggested—but it may be a depiction of prostitution

Degas started his  work from a very young age. He was of 18, when he made his studio(which was his room) and started working at it.
His paintings are based on dance. In other words, through one art he expressed another art.That's really nice!!!
He wasn't only a painter but also a sculptor.
 In the late 1880s, Degas also developed a passion for photography. He photographed many of his friends, often by lamplight, as in his double portrait of Renoir and Mallarmé. ]
His top works include:

                                                                 Ballet rehearsel

                                                            Fin d'Arabesque, with ballerina

                                                                  Rehearsal on Stage

                                                          The Singer with the Glove

                                                       Dancer with a Bouquet of Flowers 

                                                                  Stage Rehearsal

                                                                Dancers at The Bar

                                                           The Bellelli Family

                                                             Dance Class

Caspar David Friedrich

Heaven!!!
Earth is Heaven !
Nature is so inspiring.We're so blessed to be on this beautiful planet. 
Caspar David Friedrich is one of those painters whose drawings make you believe that how beautiful our Earth is. 
This painter is basically a romantic landscape painter.  His paintings show beauty, patience, sadness and destruction of nature.His paintings are worth looking at. 
He's considered as one of the most important German painters.
Friedrich was a prolific artist who produced more than 500 attributed works. In line with the Romantic ideals of his time, he intended his paintings to function as pure aesthetic statements, so he was cautious that the titles given to his work were not overly descriptive or evocative. It is likely that some of today's more literal titles, such as "The Stages of Life", were not given by the artist himself, but were instead adopted during one of the revivals of interest in     Friedrich. Complications arise when dating Friedrich's work, in part because he often did not directly name or date his canvases. He kept a carefully detailed notebook on his output, however, which has been used by scholars to tie paintings to their completion dates.
His paintings are masterpiece.

                                                      Morning in the giant mountains

                                                            The abbey in the oakwood

                                                     Chalk Cliffs on Rügen

                                                                     the sea of ice

                                          The monk by the sea                                            

                                                      moon rise over the sea

                                                 The stages of life

Marc Chagall

PAINTERS OF ALL TIME!
Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and so many are to be included in this list. One of them, I would personally like to include is Marc Chagall.
 Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century".
Marc Chagall was born Moishe Segal in a Lithuanian Jewish family in Liozna, near the city of Vitebsk (Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire) in 1887. At the time of his birth, Vitebsk's population was about 66,000, with half the population being Jewish. A picturesque city of churches and synagogues, it was called "Russian Toledo", after a cosmopolitan city of the former Spanish Empire. As the city was built mostly of wood, little of it survived years of occupation and destruction during World War II.
Marc Chagall did suffer a lot in the world war(s).
In Russia at that time, Jewish children were not allowed to attend regular Russian schools or universities. Their movement within the city was also restricted. Chagall therefore received his primary education at the local Jewish religious school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible. At the age of 13, his mother tried to enroll him in a Russian high school, and he recalled, "But in that school, they don't take Jews. Without a moment's hesitation, my courageous mother walks up to a professor." She offered the headmaster 50 roubles to let him attend, which he accepted.

A turning point of his artistic life came when he first noticed a fellow student drawing. Baal-Teshuva writes that for the young Chagall, watching someone draw "was like a vision, a revelation in black and white". Chagall would later say that there was no art of any kind in his family's home and the concept was totally alien to him. When Chagall asked the schoolmate how he learned to draw, his friend replied, "Go and find a book in the library, idiot, choose any picture you like, and just copy it". He soon began copying images from books and found the experience so rewarding he then decided he wanted to become an artist.
Author Serena Davies writes that "By the time he died in France in 1985—the last surviving master of European modernism, outliving Joan Miró by two years—he had experienced at first hand the high hopes and crushing disappointments of the Russian revolution, and had witnessed the end of the Pale, the near annihilation of European Jewry, and the obliteration of Vitebsk, his home town, where only 118 of a population of 240,000 survived the Second World War."

Chagall's last work was a commissioned piece of art for the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. The maquette painting titled "Job" was completed, but Chagall died just before the completion of the tapestry Yavett Cauquil Pierce was weaving the tapestry under Chagall's supervision and was the last person to work with Chagall before his death. She left Vava and Marc Chagall's home at 4 pm on 28 March after discussing and matching the final colors from the maquette painting for the tapestry. He died that evening.
His relationship with his Jewish identity was "unresolved and tragic", Davies states. He would have died without Jewish rites, had not a Jewish stranger stepped forward and said the kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, over his coffin.
His life is really inspiring. He's one of those artists from whom we should learn the importance of challenging life and taking it to a different level.
For knowing more about his life check this link:
http://www.biography.com/people/marc-chagall-9243488