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SAMSON AND DELILAH – RUBENS

BAROQUEDecember 25, 20178Views 0Likes 0Comments

The painting depicts the episode on Samson and Delilah from the Old Testament. According to the story, Samson is a Hebrew hero from the Israelites and has great strength which enables him to slay a lion with bare hands or massacring an entire army with a jawbone of an ass. Samson has been named as…

THE SCREAM – MUNCH

19TH CENTURYDecember 19, 20179Views 0Likes 0Comments

"I was walking along the road with two friends The sun was setting Suddenly the sky turned blood red I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence There was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city My friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety And I sensed an infinite scream passing through…

THE CREATION OF ADAM – MICHELANGELO

RENAISSANCENovember 28, 20178Views 0Likes 0Comments

The fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of Vatican contains 9 scenes from the Old Testament depicted with the enchanting design of Michelangelo. "The Creation of Adam" is located in the middle of the ceiling, at the focal point of the viewer. Despite this subject having been produced with so many different styles…

THE PERSISTENCE OF MEMORY – DALÍ

MODERNNovember 1, 20176Views 0Likes 0Comments

A universal symbol of modern art and surrealism, The Persistence of Memory has become one of the biggest visual icons of our time with the melting clocks created by Dalí's extraordinary imagination. What attracts the viewer's attention first in the painting are the melting clocks and the weirdly shaped form resembling a human face. These objects evoke…

ALLEGORY OF SPRING – BOTTICELLI

RENAISSANCESeptember 22, 20175Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sandro Botticelli's Allegory of Spring (the Italian original "Primavera") is different than most of the other Christianity themed Renaissance paintings due to the mythological figures it includes. Despite the figures are all taken from classical mythology, there is no specific mythological story that brings these figures together. The figures, standing in a spring garden covered with…

THE KISS – KLIMT

MODERNSeptember 17, 20177Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of the biggest modern icons of our time, the Kiss, belongs to Gustav Klimt's Golden Period during which he used gold leaves in his paintings. Based on a simple composition, the painting is largely covered by a couple in embrace. The man and the woman in golden-yellow coloured long clothes become one in this embrace. The…

OLYMPIA – MANET

19TH CENTURYSeptember 17, 20175Views 0Likes 0Comments

Manet's Olympia caused a great shock, stirred the art community and received a great deal of negative reaction upon its first public display in Paris, 1865. The conservative academic critics of the period considered it vulgar, degenerate and even immoral. Nevertheless, the source of inspiration of Manet was a classic Renaissance piece of Titian: Venus…

OATH OF THE HORATII – DAVID

18TH CENTURYSeptember 17, 20178Views 0Likes 0Comments

The subject of Oath of the Horatii is taken from the Roman history. The cities of Rome and Alba Longa were under a never-ending dispute. In order to end this dispute, three brothers from the Horatius of Rome and three brothers from the Curatius family of Alba Longa were chosen to fight against each other.…

JUDITH BEHEADING HOLOFERNES – CARAVAGGIO

BAROQUESeptember 17, 20176Views 0Likes 0Comments

This brutal looking work of Caravaggio, which evokes feeling of terror and fear at first glance, can be discovered to include much more upon a deeper analysis. Indeed the painting is not only a display of a decapitation scene but a conscientiously designed masterpiece which enables the viewer to unfold the psychological states of the characters…

THE ANNUNCIATION – LEONARDO DA VINCI

RENAISSANCESeptember 17, 20176Views 0Likes 0Comments

As indicated by its name, Leonardo da Vinci's painting has the theme of an announcement. One of the major topics in Christian belief and a prominent theme in art history, the Annunciation, depicts the scene where Virgin Mary receives the news from archangel Gabriel that she is pregnant. The Annunciation paintings focus on the moment when…

GETTING STARTED

GENERALSeptember 17, 20171View 0Likes 0Comments

Dear Art Enthusiasts, I do not remember when I started drawing pictures or my interest in art began. I guess, it is "for as long as I've known myself"... Even as a little child, I was going through books and encyclopedias at home and looking at famous paintings and trying to understand them. In time, this…