Monthly Archives: March 2013

Living with Art

Art seems far away from us. Children from rural area in China usually don't have opportunity to get access to art, they usually help do housework after class instead of going to training class to learn dance, paint. Meanwhile, a … Continue reading

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View of Delft by Johannes Vermeer

View of Delft is a famous oil painting made by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Johannes Vermeer was good at painting the domestic interior scenes of middle class life. He was considered as a successful provincial genre painter. Girl with a … Continue reading

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An Interesting Work by Thomas Gainsborough--The Blue Boy

The Blue Boy is a representative painting by Thomas Gainsborough. Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) was a celebrated English painter. He was good at painting portrait and landscapes and his speed with which he applied paint was also admired. He revealed poetic … Continue reading

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What The Peasant Wedding Tells?

The Peasant Wedding is a famous painting by Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a Flemish painter and print maker well-known for his landscapes and peasant paintings. As a result, he got a name of … Continue reading

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Irises

“It strikes the eye from afar. The Irises are a beautiful study full of air and life." says Theo, Van Gogh's brother, who is extremely taken with the painting. This painting conjures up a cold atmosphere by the large-area magnificent … Continue reading

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A Brief Analysis of Freud's Oil Painting Techniques

The British painter  Lucian Freud was the most famous realist painter, whose grandfather was the famous founder of psychoanalysis Sigmunt Freud. He went to England and was affected by the painter Francis Bacon. From the perspective of painting techniques, Freud's works were … Continue reading

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Still Life Works of Paul Cezanne

Still Life was made by the famous French painter Paul Cezanne. In 1999, Cezanne’s Still Life was auctioned in New York with a $60500000 price, which made the whole world art fans have a chance to see the works of … Continue reading

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Appreciation to Madame Cezanne In The Greenhouse

This portrait was made by the painter Paul Cezanne when he was 51 years old. Among all his wife's portraits of Cezanne, this painting is more lively and full of tenderness. Of course, it also shows the lady's a hint … Continue reading

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Creation of Adam By Michelangelo Buonarroti

Creation of Adam was representative of the important part of Michelangelo's frescoes. Because of his reputation in Florence, Rome Pope Julius II invited him to participate in building the Pope tomb. In 1508, he was forced to agree to paint … Continue reading

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Lady in Blue

The woman in blue was created by the famous Russian painter Konstantin Somov from 1897 to 1900. Somov (1869-1939) was the main representative figure of the arisen "Art world" of Russia from the late 19th century to the early 20th century, … Continue reading

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