Art E-Magazine - 03rd Edition Painting

Raphael was an Italian Raphael Rooms, Sistine painter and an architect of the Madonna, Transfiguration, The High Renaissance. His father Mond Crucifixion, The Coronation was a court painter and Raphael of the Virgin, The Parnassus and followed in his father’s footsteps, The School of Athens are some of helping with his father’s own his notable works. Also he painted work at the court. some portraits of famous people like, Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga and Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese. Art E-Magazine | Painting | 70

Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish La Vie, Family of Saltimbanques, painter, sculptor, theatre designer, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, Portrait of printmaker, and ceramicist. Picasso Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Girl before demonstrated extraordinary artistic a mirror, Le Reve, Guernica, The talent in his early years. His paintings Weeping Woman, and Massacre in are categorized into periods called Korea are some of his paintings. the Blue period, Rose period, African influenced period, Analytic Cubism, and Synthetic Cubism. 71 | Painting | Art E-Magazine

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Rembrandt’s largest and most famous painting was made for one of the three headquarters of Amsterdam’s civic guard. These groups of civilian soldiers defended the city from attack. Rembrandt was the first to paint all of the figures in a civic guard piece in action. The captain, dressed in black, gives the order to march out. The guardsmen are getting into formation. Rembrandt used the light to focus on particular details, like the captain’s gesturing hand and the young girl in the foreground. She was the company mascot. The nickname Night Watch originated much later, when the painting was thought to represent a nocturnal scene. This portrait of a female, clothed in the Florentine manner and seated in a dreamlike, mountainous scene, is an outstanding example of Leonardo’s sfumato style of soft, highly shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa’s enigmatic look, which appears both enticing and distant, has earned the image worldwide acclaim. The mysterious woman is seated in what looks to be an uncovered loggia with black pillar bases on each side. It is debatable if Mona Lisa should be called a conventional portrait because of the emotive harmony that da Vinci produced between figure and environment since it portrays an aspiration rather than a real woman. 75 | Painting | Art E-Magazine

Rembrandt’s largest and most famous painting was made for one of the three headquarters of Amsterdam’s civic guard. These groups of civilian soldiers defended the city from attack. Rembrandt was the first to paint all of the figures in a civic guard piece in action. The captain, dressed in black, gives the order to march out. The guardsmen are getting into formation. Rembrandt used the light to focus on particular details, like the captain’s gesturing hand and the young girl in the foreground. She was the company mascot. The nickname Night Watch originated much later, when the painting was thought to represent a nocturnal scene. Art E-Magazine | Painting | 76

Leonardo, the original “Renaissance Man,” is the only artist to appear on this list twice. This is one of the most recognizable artworks on earth. Painted in an era when religious imagery was still a dominant artistic theme, “The Last Supper” depicts the last time Jesus broke bread with his disciples before his crucifixion. This was painted on a refectory wall in the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. The painting, despite restoration efforts, remains fragile, so, in an effort to slow its deterioration, visitors are allotted 15 minutes to view the mural in small groups. Although some of Leonardo’s celebrated artistic qualities-luminous colour, soft modeling, and studied facial expressions have been lost, 77 | Painting | Art E-Magazine

viewers can still witness his skill in depicting a sequential narrative, his considered approach to creating an illusion of space, and his interest in representing human psychology in expression, gesture, and posture. Since the Last Supper’s completion, when it was declared a masterpiece, the mural has garnered the praise of such artists as Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens and such writers as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. It has also inspired countless reproductions, interpretations, conspiracy theories, and works of fiction. The Last Supper’s delicate condition has not lessened the painting’s appeal; instead, it has become part of the artwork’s legacy. Art E-Magazine | Painting | 78

T his work was painted from a hotel window at Le Havre in 1873 (Monet later dated it incorrectly to 1872). It was one of the nine works that he showed at the First Impressionist Exhibition of 1874. Of all those displayed there, this is probably the most famous picture, not so much because of any crucial status within Monet’s oeuvre, but rather for the criticism it attracted from the reviewers, which gave rise to the name of the movement. On 25 April, 10 days after the exhibition had opened, an article appeared in the satirical journal ‘Le Charivari’ in which the critic Louis Leroy described a fictitious conversation between two visitors. One of them was a landscape painter who, while looking at this work, exclaimed: “Impressionism, I knew it; after all I’m impressed so it must be an impression... What freedom! What ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than this seascape!” The article was entitled ‘The Exhibition of the Impressionists’, and the label stuck thereafter, as well as being used by such other critics of the exhibition as Castagnary. 79 | Painting | Art E-Magazine

V incent Van Gogh’s most popular painting, The Starry Night was created by Van Gogh at the asylum in Saint-Rémy, where he’d committed himself in 1889. Indeed, The Starry Night seems to reflect his turbulent state of mind at the time, as the night sky comes alive with swirls and orbs of frenetically applied brush marks springing from the yin and yang of his personal demons and awe of nature. The Dutch post-impressionist painter ‘stunning creation is now exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Art E-Magazine | Painting | 80

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Across 1) A type of paintings which communicates its message using symbolic figures, actions, or symbolic representation. 3) The painter from the Renaissance Period who painted the Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga, Portrait of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, The Parnassus and The Coronation of the Virgin. 7) .................. Degas is an artist famous for figure paintings. 8) An element of painting which is made up of the three properties hue, value and intensity. 9) Painting can be classified as a ............... art where an artist captures his/her own imagination, emotions, and expressions on a 2-dimensional surface. 11) It is a type of art that is used as a form of expressing thoughts, emotions and messages to the people. 15) The first historic and purely abstract painting which was painted by Wassily Kandinsky. 16) A painting medium which was made of pigment mixed with a binder of egg yolk and water. 18) A Dutch golden age painter, draftsman and printmaker who painted the world famous painting ‘The Night Watch’. 19) In a cave in this region of Spain, there is a rock painting of the Bison which the chiaroscuro technique is used. 20) ‘The Starry Night’ painting by Vincent van Gogh was painted using oil colours by taking ................ as the surface. Down 2) A cubism art painting done by Pablo Picasso based on the events happened during the World War. 4) A ................. is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting of a cityscape or some other vista. 5) A painting medium where colours are mixed with only water and no additional binders. 6) Giorgio De Chirico’s works and his compelling paintings played an important role in the development of ............................. . 10) A set of caves which are very popular for the eastern paintings with various shades of red and orange. 12) Harder ..................... are perfect for overall composition sketching and outlines while softer ..................... look amazing when blended. 13) ..................... is based on the line quality, colour, composition and other artistic elements and principles of a painting. 14) A painting technique where the scene or landscape is painted as a whole or in continuous narration which gives a wide-angle view of the landscape. 17) Andre Derain, Raoul Dufy and Maurice de Vlaminck revolutionized the Paris art world with their “wild” multi coloured, expressive landscapes and figure paintings that the critics called ......................... .