Metamorphosis of Narcissus-Salvador Dali

Soft Construction with Boiled Beans-Salvador Dali

The Great Masturbator-Salvador Dali

      

The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze, Gustav Klimt

      The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze, Gustav Klimt – The Tree of Life, Stoclet Frieze was Klimt’s last great mural work. The painting presents the life cycle as many of his other works of art did, but in a more serene way than pieces such as Beethoven Frieze.

Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Pierre-Auguste Renoir

   Two Sisters (On the Terrace), Pierre-Auguste Renoir – This masterpiece by Renoir is a celebration of the beauty of spring and the promise of youth. Interestingly, the two girls depicted in the painting were not sisters, as indicated by the work’s original title, but unrelatedmodels.

Maternity, Pablo Picasso

     Maternity, Pablo Picasso – This stunning oil painting, originally created in 1905, depicts the intimate bond of mother and child.

John Sloan

    (1871-1951) Leading member of the Ashcan School; captured the social realities of American urban life in the early 1900s

John Singer Sargent

     (1856-1925) American Realist; best known for his fashionable portraits of leading figures in Europe and America

Thomas Eakins

      (1844-1916) Pre-eminent American Realist; famous for his portraits and genre paintings; best known for The Gross Clinic

    Art, Michael Parkes Magic realism paintings. Michael Parkes is an American-born artist living in Spain who is best known for work in the areas of fantasy art and magic realism. He specializes in painting, stone lithography and sculpture.

Famous Painting The World . Part 2

Sleeping Venus, Giorgione

       This is Giorgione’s most important oil painting. Sleeping Venus had ever been titled as the most beautiful human body in the world by many artists, historian and artistic critics. The graceful Venus’s nude shocked us as one of the most famous painting in Renaissance.
        The oil painting looked like a nice sleeping music. In the endless and silent nature, the beautiful goddess slept in a peaceful manner. Her body was harmonious with the nature environment. It was said the sleeping Venus is the first lying nude in oil painting history. Venus had a well filled-out figure.

An Angel Playing a Flageoletwater

TheLadyOfShallot

pre raphaelite brotherhood paintings famous

Whistler's Mother

Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “Lady with the Ermine”

   Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting “Lady with the Ermine”- a masterpiece of Renaissance art as well as the precious Landscape with a good Samaritan by Rembrandt. The decorative arts collection comprises Polish, West-European and Oriental exhibits, and includes glass, porcelain, silver, textiles, militaria, maiolicas, etc. There is also a rich collection of ancient - Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman - art.

FAMOUS RENAISSANCE PAINTING

De Chirico

pre-Surrealist and then Surrealist Italian painter born in Volos, Greece, to a Genovese mother and a Sicilian father.^[1] He founded the scuola metafisica art 

Ernst

German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Weeping Woman

Weeping Woman

By Pablo Picasso

      The Weeping Woman is considered a continuation of his famous Guernica painting.It was meant to show the effects of suffering following the Spanish Civil War, both in Spain and the world over.  The woman being depicted in the painting is Dora Maar.  She was Picasso’s mistress for several years and his personal photographer.

American Gothic

American Gothic
By Grant Wood




      American Gothic is a famous painting that was created in 1930.  Wood entered the  painting in in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago, winning the bronze medal. Since it came out at the onset of the Great Depression, it was viewed by many as a symbol of the steadfast American spirit. Many saw it as a struggling farmer and his wife who refuse to give up. The woman is actually Wood’s sister. The man, his dentist.