Antonello da Messina
(ca. 1430 – 1479) was one of the most groundbreaking and influential painters of the quattrocento. No other Italian artist of the fifteenth-century responded in such a direct fashion to the great masters of Bruges and Brussels (including use of their oil technique) ...
LIVE magazine | April 06 | art | painting | masters | Antonello da Messina

Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (1509/1512), Creation of Adam, The Vatican Frescoes, Architecture, Sculptures & Paintings, The Complete Poetry, Michelangelo and The Reform of Art ...
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Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) made hundreds of paintings, etchings and drawings, covering a broad range of subject matter. The proportion of these images that can be classified as self portraits is exceptional.
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Scottish architect, painter, furniture designer, and graphic artist Scarcely dead before art critics began calling him a pioneer of modernism, the United Kingdom's master of art nouveau ... Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928).
art | design | painting | masters | C.R. Mackintosh | Faded Roses | >>

The enigmatic images of the great Surrealist René Magritte (1898-1967) are so powerful that they seem to define a completely new reality, where everyday objects and familiar situations are transformed in unexpected ways
art | painting | masters | Magritte Rene' | Self portrait - Clairvoyance | >>

Portrait of Picasso [1947]
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali, The Salvador Dali Museum Collection, The Definitive Dali, The Collected Writings, The Paintings, Dali's Optical Illusions, Dali Universal Tarot Deck, Dali's Mustache ...
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Rockwell Norman was nearly as prolific an artist as he was gifted. In addition to his many paintings, he created over 500 magazine covers and thousands of commercial illustrations.
art | painting | masters | Rockwell Norman | Triple Self Portrait | >>

"In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation." So says Fernando Botero--artist of voluptuous bodies and distorted landscapes, whose paintings and sculptures challenge our conceptions of size and space.
art | painting | masters | Fernando Botero | the rotund world | >>

exhibition : photographic paintings
France between kitsch and sublime
art | photography | painting | photographic paintings by Pierre & Gilles | >>

Vasily Kandinsky was among the international vanguard artists who experimented with abstraction in the early years of the 20th century. His most powerful and ambitious works were ten monumental canvases he titled Compositions: he painted the first seven in intense succession between 1909 and 1913, and the final three in 1923, 1936, and 1939. Each of these brilliant paintings and their studies explores the sensuous colorism that amateur and specialist alike find so appealing in his art. In the first study devoted to Kandinsky's Compositions as a series, the author unfolds the rich and powerful context of these eloquent images and reveals how their formal principles and iconographical imagery were of almost religious significance to Kandinsky. This book, for the first time, reproduces all ten of the Compositions, along with their studies in oil, watercolor, ink, and pencil. Three of the paintings, which were destroyed during World War II, are repesented through extant photographs. Essay by Magdalena Dabrowski. Foreword by Richard E. Oldenburg.
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