Painter: Lucian Freud Date of art creation: 1972 Art movement: Expressionism Genre of painting: portrait Painting technique: oil Painting material: canvas Dimensions: 14 x 17.8 cm Location: Private Collection Content: female-portraits
Artist: Angelica Kauffman Completion Date: 1781 Style: Neoclassicism Genre: self-portrait Technique: oil Material: canvas Gallery: Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Tags: famous-people, female-portraits, Angelica-Kauffman
Artist: Arnold Böcklin Completion Date: 1895 Style: Symbolism Genre: allegorical painting Technique: oil Material: panel Dimensions: 150 x 103 cm Tags: allegories-and-symbols, musical-instruments, flying, night
Painter: Meret Oppenheim Date of art creation: 1933 Art movement: Surrealism Genre of painting: portrait
Artist: Ding Yanyong Style: Expressionism, Ink and wash painting Genre: bird-and-flower painting
Painter: Ernst Fuchs Date of art creation: 1960 Art movement: Fantastic Realism Genre of painting: religious painting Painting technique: oil, tempera Painting material: canvas Content: allegories-and-symbols
Artist: Betty Parsons Style: Abstract Expressionism Genre: abstract
Painter: Giorgio Vasari Date of art creation: c.1560 Art movement: Mannerism (Late Renaissance) Genre of painting: religious painting Dimensions: 300 x 163 cm Location: Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome, Italy Content: Christianity, saints-and-apostles, punishments-and-tortures, St.-Stephen
Painter: Jacek Yerka Date of art creation: 1982 Place of Creation: Poland Art movement: Surrealism Genre of painting: symbolic painting Content: disease-and-treatment, furniture-and-decoration, bedrooms
Ai Weiwei (born 28 August 1957 in Beijing) is a Chinese Contemporary artist and activist. His father side’s original surname is 蔣Jiang. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008 Olympics. As a political activist, he has been highly and openly critical …
Diego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez, known as Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter. His large frescoes helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in Mexican art. Between 1922 and 1953, Rivera painted murals among others in Mexico …
Artist: Candido Portinari Completion Date: 1939 Style: Social Realism Genre: Portrait O Lavrador de Cafe (Painting by Candido Portinari 1903-1962), a son of Italian immigrants was born in Brodowski, Sao Paulo Brazil. The Brazilian painter’s work became prominent in the 20th century and he was known as an influential practitioner thanks to the unique neo-realism …
Karl Emil Maximilian “Max” Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist whose ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as among the three founders of sociology. The American painter Max Weber (1881-1961) sampled various …
Salvador Dalí was a multi talented artist. Though known for his surrealist paintings, melting clocks, and eccentric behavior, Dalí was an incredibly skilled and trained craftsman in a multitude of disciplines. His art ranged from the two-dimensional to the three dimensional, from surrealism to realism, from the chaotic to the harmonized. To understand Dalí as …
The artist normally signed his paintings with his full birth name in Greek letters, Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος (Doménikos Theotokópoulos), often adding the word Κρής (Krēs, “Cretan”).
Painter: Rafael Zabaleta Date of art creation: 1955 Art movement: Cubism Genre of painting: genre painting Painting technique: oil Painting material: canvas Dimensions: 65 x 81 cm Content: leisure-and-sleep, beaches-and-shorelines
Painter: M.C. Escher Date of art creation: 1917 Art movement: Expressionism Genre of painting: vanitas Content: skeletons-and-skulls
Artist: David Alfaro Siqueiros Completion Date: 1929 Style: Expressionism Genre: allegorical painting Technique: oil Material: burlap Dimensions: 249 x 180 cm Gallery: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Tags: mother-and-child
