Australia with it’s massive, harsh yet beautiful landscapes has inspired artist of many forms, from the traditional imagery of the aboriginal people to the European settlers From ancient times to the present, Australian art refers to any art created in or about Australia, or by Australians living abroad. Aboriginal, Colonial, Landscape, Atelier, early-twentieth-century painters, printmakers, … Read more
While the majority of people connect Austria with its significant contribution to classical music, the country has also produced several renowned artists. The bulk of well-known Austrian painters were members of the either the Vienna Secession (which followed the academic artists of the Künstlerhaus and concentrated on portraiture) or the Danube School, a group of … Read more
The following list of famous painters are some of the most recognizable names in art history. From the Renaissance through the Baroque, Realism era’s and then into all of the modern art movements the following famous names stand above all others. Gifted with other worldly talent and an insatiable drive for perfection they are responsible … Read more
Expressionism is a modernist trend that began in Northern Europe around the turn of the twentieth century, first in poetry and then art. Its distinguishing feature is to depict the world purely from a subjective point of view, distorting it dramatically for emotional impact in order to elicit feelings or thoughts. Expressionist painters aimed to … Read more
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (after known as the Pre-Raphaelites artists) was an English painting, poet, and art critic organization. In 1848, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, and Thomas Woolner founded a seven-member “Brotherhood” inspired in part by the Nazarene movement. The Brotherhood was always … Read more
The Victorian era was the time of Queen Victoria’s rule in the United Kingdom, lasting from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and before the Edwardian period. Ideologically, the Victorian era saw a shift away from the rationality that characterized the Georgian period and toward … Read more
Throughout the renaissance the only hope that a woman could have of becoming an artists was to be born into a very wealthy family, learn to paint at a convent after becoming a nun, or to have been born into a family of artists where their father owned a workshop or studio. Regardless of the … Read more
In the early nineteenth century, landscape painting became a means for expressing American identity and documenting the westward expansion graphically. The Hudson River School of landscape painters was the earliest painting school in American art. It’s style was characterized by meticulous workmanship and beautiful, almost glowing lighting. Due to the magnitude and expanse of the … Read more
Latin American art is the creative expression of Latin Americans residing in other locations, as well as those from South America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico. The art has its origins in the many indigenous civilizations that lived in the Americas before to European colonization in the 16th century. Each indigenous society developed complex … Read more
Artists of the American West are often classified as visual artists who represent in different creative mediums the 18th and 19th century western American Frontier and American Old West, as well as the 20th and 21st century Western United States. Artworks from this American Western genre/period/region are also known as “Western Art,” as opposed to … Read more