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Red and Golden Hues: Autumn in Paintings
As Autumn slowly begins, delve with us into paintings that center the season. Along the way discover other DailyArt Magazine articles to get you excited for those red and golden hues. The most evocative part of Autumn is the metamorphosing color of trees. David Hockney regularly returns to paint the same scene throughout the changing year.
How Cubism Changed During the 20th Century
Art changed a lot during the start of the 20th century. World War I affected this transition and changed the process as many artists tried to express their feelings in a different way during war times. Signs of early Cubism can be found in the works of Paul Cézanne with his simplified view of nature. Cézanne influenced both Picasso and Braque, it is thought that it was thanks to him that Cubism could evolve.
Women in Kunstmuseum Bern: A Glimpse to the Collection
The collection of Kunstmuseum Bern ranges from the Gothic to the present and currently consists of more than 4,000 paintings and sculptures as well as 48,000 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and films, and it is really worth further exploring. So here, we would like to give you a little teaser and show you couple of other pearls that Kunstmuseum Bern owns.
Moving Dialogues Between Art History and The Syrian War
And yet another war. The only thing that I can do about it, apart from donating to humanitarian aid organizations, pressuring my government to take action, and offering support to my friends, is to educate. As an art historian, I choose to educate through art, and today I want to remind you of an artist whose art went viral a couple of years ago, Tammam Azzam. His poignant photomontages with the use of Western art’s most famous works speak out about the atrocities of the Syrian War in particular.
Masterpiece Story: Cleopatra by Alexandre Cabanel
European Art Queen Cleopatra is a popular subject today – as she was in the late 19th century. Alexandre Cabanel’s Cleopatra explores a single moment of her legendary life. It uses the extremely popular French Academy style of the 1880s to depict this 1st-century BCE figure. While the subject and style could be argued as staunchly traditional in the history of Western art, Cabanel adds a new vitality through his dramatic coloring and exotic scenery.
Is the Metaverse Already Here?
Metaverse, immersive digital world that could be the next big thing on the internet. Will it be? Will artists leave their studios and develop their works in the virtual world? Mona Lisa in the Crowd Last time I visited Paris was a couple of years ago together with my father. Although both of us had been to Paris multiple times before, it was the first time for us to visit the Louvre.
Rain in Japanese Art
Asian Art min Read Asian Art Although Japanese weather varies greatly across the archipelago, the abundance of rain throughout the year remains a common phenomenon across Japan. The typical monsoon season known as tsuyu, is marked by heavy summer rains for around six weeks in June and July. Typhoon or taifu season generally occurs around Fall and is accompanied by a torrential downpour. As with many agrarian societies, rains were accurately perceived as a blessing and a necessity.
The Truth is in the Soil: The Elegiac Odyssey of Ioanna Sakellaraki
No phenomenon pertaining to human existence is as infallible and foundational as death. Expectedly, an occurrence that has this kind of defining nature could never be overshadowed by any other intriguing subject for artistic interpretation. But to interpret and convey such subject requires both physical and intellectual vigor; for one may easily find herself/himself in a despondent state in face of death and its repercussions within an environment as with death, comes mourning and gloom.
The City Where the Sun Never Sets: The Grounded Sun in Zagreb
No matter the weather conditions, there has always been sun in Zagreb for the last 50 years, 365 days a year, with few interruptions. This is thanks to Ivan Kožarić, a Croatian sculptor and an artist. The sculpture Grounded Sun became one of the symbols of Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, but not without controversy.
Masterpiece Story: L.H.O.O.Q. by Marcel Duchamp
This masterpiece, L.H.O.O.Q. (La Joconde), is all about codes, reversals, play with conventions, and provocation. In other words, it’s an epitome of Dada and Marcel Duchamp‘s entire oeuvre. Mona Lisa vs. Dadaism We all did it at some point in our lives: we drew a mustache on somebody’s printed face in a color magazine or a street poster. I used to do it on the covers of my grandma’s crossword booklets.
An Intellectual Talk on Art, Illustration, and Mythology: Interview with the Illustrator Bartu Bölükbaşı
Long Read Merve Parla 22 November 2021 min Read Bartu Bölükbaşı is an illustrator and graphic novel artist from Eskişehir, Turkey. With his great talent and specialization in mythology, the artist is creating a unique perspective in the illustration sector in Turkey. Having kicked off his career by illustrating Ahmet Ümit’s book Farewell My Beautiful Homeland, Bölükbaşı later published two books of his own.
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