He had many great acomplishments such as being considered one of the founders of modernist schools of dominican painting along with Yoryi Morel and Jaime Colson. In his early career he…
Goya became devoted with depicting the physical and psychological suffering, and moral tortures inflicted by the Spanish court and church. He disguised his repulsion with satire, however, such as in disturbing “black paintings” he did on the walls of his villa, Quinta del Sordo (house of the deaf). The fourteen large murals in black, brown, and gray of 1820-22 present appalling monsters engaged in sinister acts.…
Diego Velazquez, born in 1599, Spain, started an apprenticeship with a local painter when he was only eleven years of age. During his early ages he looked up to and was inspired by Italian painter Caravaggio. After completing his apprenticeship, Diego started a studio of his own, and a year later married Juana Pacheco, who is the daughter of the person who he had…
1740s he worked as a portrait painter in the North of England. Ever since he was a child he also…
In Thiebaud’s earlier years, he took art classes and started drawing and creating stage sets for the theatre, which gave him the idea of bright colors in his paintings. As a teenager, Thiebaud made posters for movies and worked in the animation department at the Walt Disney studios. He went to junior college and…
Spain has produced some of the world-class painters. Francisco de Goya and Pablo Picasso exist among the ranks of Spain’s most internationally acclaimed artist. These two influential artists use their artwork as a platform to protest against social injustices. Goya and Picasso, works can be understood to address Social Protest Art, but artist handles the subject in their own unique way. Goya and Picasso were both prolific artists of their times, offering works of great visual travesty of the glories of warfare and bloody victory.…
From an early age Salvador was pushed to hone his skills and eventually made it to an academy in Madrid. He then went to Paris and begun interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miro, which…
Considered the ‘greatest Spanish painter of them all.’ Gained fame as court painter at Madrid. Best work: "Maids of Honor" (1656).…
portrait painted (Figures 2-4), sitting repeatedly for painters and sculptors, so much so that he…
In 1815 when Goya was 69, he created a series called La tauromaquia which consisted of 33 prints. Goya contained a burning passion for bulls and represented it by dedicating these etchings to the art of bullfighting and by…
While immersed in the artist communities in Spain and Paris, Rivera’s artistic development was influenced by the Spanish masters including El Greco, Francisco Goya and Diego Velasquez. Upon his return…
The Third of May 1808 by Francisco Goya is a powerful painting, being painted in 1814, Goya made this in response to the French Occupation of Spain. During this time Madrid’s people resulted in the vicious fighting that slaughtered both sides that lasted for six years. This painting shows the mass execution that Goya probably saw firsthand. In this painting Goya shows the audience the powerful force of history. He shows a Spanish rebel with his arms raised almost as if he…
Upon recognizing his immense talent, Dalí's parents sent him to drawing school at the Colegio de Hermanos Maristas and the Institution in Figueres, Spain in 1916. In 1922, Dalí enrolled in the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid, Spain, and stayed at the student residence. During his studies, he was influenced by several different artistic styles, including Metaphysics and Cubism. While in school, Dalí began exploring many forms of art including classical painters like Raphael, Bronzino, and Valzquez (from whom he adopted his signature curled moustache).…
One notable artist that partook in the Romantic Movement was Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. In spite of his initial lack of success, and even being denied entrance to the Royal Academy of Fine Art, Goya eventually found his way amongst the monarchy and the royalty by designing patterns that would soon decorate the residences of greatly important people, and then by painting commissioned portraits of counts, dukes, and even the king. These events allowed him to rise into fame, as Goya became painter to Charles III and court painter to Charles IV themselves. As the years went by, though, Goya had contracted cholera and dove into withdrawal and isolation, creating more bitter and sombre paintings. In the later years of his life, he isolated himself in a two-story house baptised “the Deaf Man’s Villa” (in reference to the previous owner and not himself, who was coincidentally left deaf from his cholera.) Here, he painted a series of fourteen untitled paintings known as the “Black Paintings.” To say the least, each of the pieces were more bitter and macabre than the next, the ultimate one being Saturn Devouring His Son.…
The artist, Antoine Vollon, was born in France in the year 1833. He focused primarily on still life painting but also painted figures and landscapes. During his lifetime he enjoyed the status of a celebrity and was widely acknowledged with a great reputation. After completing an apprenticeship as an engraver, teaching himself painting and printmaking, he moved from Lyon to Paris in the year 1859 to further his craft. He was very inspired by the Dutch style of still life painting during that time, which is evident in his own style.…