Sunday, 30 August 2015

Remedious Varo

Born in a small town of Spain, Remedious Varo is a very gifted and renowned  painter. Renaissance art inspired harmony, tonal nuances, unity, and narrative structure in Varo’s paintings. The allegorical nature of much of Varo's work especially recalls the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch, and some critics, such as Dean Swinford, have described her art as "postmodern allegory," much in the tradition of Irrealism.




Saturday, 29 August 2015

Wilhelm Leibl

Wilhelm Leibl was a German realist portrait painter. His paintings are based on peasants and their tough life. By looking at his paintings you can make out that they express the misery and tough life of the peasants. 






Friday, 28 August 2015

Wassily Kandinsky

Born in Moscow, Wassily Kandinsky is considered to be one of the best abstract art painters. Done with great imagination, his works are well known and so appreciated.
 Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and spiritual desire inner necessity; it was a central aspect of his art.






Saturday, 15 August 2015

William Logsdail

A classic English landscape, portrait and genre painter, William Logsdail, is a very impressive painter. His paintings have a "Victorian" look. They show the busy life of people living in UK. They're beautifully done and expressed. 





Friday, 14 August 2015

Raja Ravi Varma

A well known Indian artist, Raja Ravi Varma is the painter whose paintings are based on scenes from Indian literature and mythology. They're beautifully done on oil. Must have a look at them.





Fredric Edwin Church

Wow !!!!!!!
That's what I felt when I saw his paintings. His paintings are so beautiful that it'll leave you mesmerized.  His paintings have a peaceful flow and gives the viewer a soothing feeling. His work is amazing and is appreciable.
His works are all based on nature. He was a man who was deeply in love with nature.

 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City exhibited The Heart of the Andes in its original frame in 1995-96, together with a number of the supporting studies that Church made on his epic Andean journey. Americans soon began to consider Church the “Michelangelo of Landscape Art” and he became one of the most renowned American artists.


 Niagara falls, from the American side 
 Rainy season in the tropics
                                                          Twilight in the wilderness
                                                              The heart of Andes
El Rio de Luzz

Thursday, 13 August 2015

Theodore Jacques Ralli

Theodore Jacques Ralli was a Greek painter. He's a portrait artist and does 
include architectural objects in his paintings. They're beautifully done with fine detailing. They're based on people living in Greece, France, Egypt,Turkey,ETC. 
After his death he was slowly almost forgotten. It is telling that his name is not even included in the Grove Dictionary of Art. Most of his paintings are still in private collections. Only a few museums ever purchased his works. A few of his paintings were auctioned in the 20th century, but only obtained modest prices. However lately, his paintings have been rediscovered and are being auctioned at prices that are a tenfold of some years ago, fetching prices from 30,000 to 100,000 euros. On 14 November 2007 a study for the painting “Refectory in a Greek Monastery (Mount Athos)” was auctioned at 200,000 euros at Sotheby's in London. But in January 2008, the actual painting “Refectory in a Greek Monastery (Mount Athos)” (1885) was auctioned at the absolute record price of 670,000 euros to a Greek collector at an auction in Ghent, Belgium.