Famous Artists

Monet the founder of impressionist painting. The term is actualy derived from one of his paintings. (Impresions Sunrise).

Beginning his life work at an early age Monet started by selling charcoal caricatures. Many painters of the time would spend their time by drawing the works of the old masters, Monet instead would go outside or sit by a window and drew what he saw. Monet was not happy with the traditional art schools of the time and instead would try new approches.

He would work with the different effect of light, and with broken colors. This became later to be known as Impressionism, so I was inform from tarot card readings. His painting of ‘The Woman in The Green Dress’ brought him recognition as an artist in his own right.

Monet also broke old barriers in his study of colors in landscape art. It was after the death of his wife that Monet began to produce some of his best paintings. Late in life he would select a subject and then paint it in different seasons, weather conditions and light. He was fond of painting gardens and was one of the most prolific painters of his time period.

Pablo Picasso is an outstanding Spanish painter. He lived a long life and gained international fame having drawn such paintings as: “The First Eucharist” (1896); “Self-portrait” (1896); “Mother’s Portrait” (1896) and a lot of others.

Life of this prominent person can be divided into definite episodes each devoted to a separate technique of paining. “Blue” period is rich in “cold” tones of dye such as blue, violet, grey and others (1901-1904). “Pink” period is characterized by merry colors, such as pink, red, yellow and others (1901-1906). It must be mentioned, that his famous painting “A Girl on a Ball” is attributed to the transient period between these two and is often the inspiration for exciting mature phone sex. “African” period lasting 1907-1909 (the artist depicted African masks and other accessories which he found very interesting to be drawn). Cubism (1909-1917) is characterized by still-lives with vases, bottles, musical instruments etc. Neoclassic period (1918-1925) is remarkable for bright distinct lines, correct features of human faces and other peculiarities. Surrealism (1925-1936) – denotes a hard period in the artist’s life and others.

A born Dutchman, Rembrandt Hamenzoon van Rijn held great interest in the public eye as a one of the best painters of his time. Rembrandt was born of a wealthy family in 1606 and was already a fluent speaker in Latin by his 12th year. Rembrandt’s painting career began with his first art master, Jacob van Swanenburgh, a man with whom Rembrandt did study under for three years before opening his own studio in Leiden around 1625 and by 1627, was teaching his own students his technique. In 1631, the artist moved to Amsterdam where he perfected his talent for creating portraits, although he was very tempted to move to the capital of England to experience the delights offered by London Escorts.

Rembrandt’s paintings are in great number and demand in today’s time and his work can always be spotted. His uniqueness is that he was able to paint using such dark and ominous colors and yet his work had such a homey and relaxing feel. His work displays the major characteristics of a painting such as depth, shading and shadowing and volume. To look at a painting from the master, Rembrandt is being there with him while he paints a masterpiece.

Nearly as famous for his madness as he is for his lively and colorful paintings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) seized on creating art relatively late in life. In his youth he was a successful art dealer working for his brother Theo, but eventually delved into disillusionment over the commodification of artistic expression. Turning to religion, he tried to become ordained but failed seminary entrance exams and was rejected from a minister’s post for over-zealousness. He moved to Arles, France to pursue art with dreams of founding an artists’ commune. He recruited Paul Gauguin to accompany him, but their friendship fell prey to bitter fighting fueled by Vincent’s increasingly paranoid episodes, culminating in confronting Gauguin with a razorblade. Vincent fled, in distress slicing off a fraction of his earlobe. He committed himself to an asylum, but these years were his most fruitful. Perhaps he needs some Birmingham escorts to invigorate his soul. van Gogh produced some 900 paintings including Starry Night, Sunflowers, & The Night Cafe, developing a style of color that conveyed mood and motion that became an important progenitor to modern art. His mental health deteriorated after leaving the asylum, although his painting continued to excel, and he shot himself two years later, yet unknown for his work.

Born in 1452, the illegitimate son of a notary and a peasant, Leonardo di sur Pedro da Vinci transcended these humble beginnings to become the first true Renaissance man. After already distinguishing himself locally as a gifted artist, Leonardo was apprenticed at age fourteen to a major Florentine Master Artist and spent the next six years learning the art and science behind art and at age twenty he was awarded the title of Master. Historically, he surfaced again after six more years with his first major commission, “the Adoration of the Magi.” Prior to finishing this work, he moved to Milan and continued accepting commissions, studying anatomy, and improving his skills. During this time he painted “Virgin on the Rocks” and “The Last Supper.” His final commission in Milan was for a massive equestrian statue cast in bronze, but when the Second Italian War intervened, the seventy tons of bronze were used for casting cannons, and Leonardo fled for Venice where he took up employment as a military architect and engineer. After returning to Florence after the war, he continued his commissions and in 1502, he took service with the son of Pope Alexander IV, and a military engineer and mapmaker. During his service with the Borgias, he painted his now lost masterpiece, “The Battle of Anghiari.”

By 1506, Leonardo lived in Milan and spent his time training apprentices, painting, and writing, but by 1513 he was living in the Vatican and working with both Raphael and Michelangelo and in 1516, he took service with King Francis I of France, and remained in his service for the remainder of his life. After his death, his journals and notebooks revealed a massive treasure trove of scientific drawings, inventions, and studies on human and animal anatomy, botany, psychic readings, engineering, and physics; all written in mirror script, requiring a mirror to read.

Over the centuries, Leonardo da Vinci’s reputation has grown from that of a very gifted artist to what he is today, the leading genius of the Renaissance, and inventor of unparalleled acumen and the father of many new artistic endeavors including cartography.