Irises (1890) by Vincent Van Gogh.The painting was influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Its first owner was the French art critic Octave Mirbeau who was also one of Van Gogh’s first supporters. Mirbeau paid 300 francs for it. Vincent painted many flowers while in France, utilizing the brighter colors he saw.At age 15, young […]
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Field with Flowers Near Arles (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh.Van Gogh moved to Arles on February 21, 1888 and took a room at the Hotel-Restaurant Carrel. Van Gogh was a smoker, with a smoker’s hack. He didn’t eat well, and did not take care of himself. The tortured artist was “dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable”,
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The Church at Auvers was painted by impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh in June 1890, which now hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France.The actual church is in Place de l’Eglise, Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Although he is known as one of the greatest “Impressionist” painters, however he was a late bloomer in the field. In
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The Cafe Terrace at Night was painted in September, 1988.The painting is currently at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, and the first painting in which he used starry backgrounds, about a month before his Starry Night Over the Rhone.
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The Bedroom in Arles depicts Van Gogh’s bedroom at 2, Place Lamartine in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, known as his Yellow House. There were three versions of this painting made.In March 1886, Van Gogh moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists he had heard about. Later, he moved to the south of France and was
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Potato Eaters was painted in April 1885 in Nuenen, Netherlands by Vincent Van Gogh.It is considered by many to be his first major work. Dark in tone, his art became brighter after he moved to Paris in 1886. He later wrote his sister, “What I think about my own work is that the painting of
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Michelangelo’s Pieta In 1497, the French ambassador, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve the famous Pietà, showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of her son, Jesus. It is one of the key signature pieces of art from the ‘High Renaissance’ period (1497 ~ 1527). Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets
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Michelangelo In 1488, young Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, who was coincidentally called upon to do interior art for the Sistine Chapel. He returned to Rome from Florence in 1505, to build statues for ‘The Pope’s Tomb.’ 50 years of interruptions made the task incomplete by the time Michelangelo died. Although he died in Rome
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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564) Nickname: ‘Il Divino’ (the divine one)
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