BY: KATIA KERRI &MARINELA KOZDINE.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di Sir Piero da Vinci was born on April 15 in 1452 and died on May 2 in 1519. He was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, designer, engineer,
scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. While his fame was initially based on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on various subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting and paleontology.
His paintings
Mona Lisa (ca. 1503-1519)
Perhaps the most famous portrait, not only of the vast collection of the Louvre Museum but of the entire planet. There are thousands of theories that have circulated over the centuries, from the speculation that Da Vinci painted the female version of himself to that the Mona Lisa was the great love of his life.
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anna (circa 1503-1519)
Saint Anne, her daughter, the Virgin Mary and the infant Christ. St. Anne is at the top of the pyramidal composition looking down at Mary who sits at her mother’s feet and tries to tenderly hold the infant Christ while he tries to embrace a smaller lamb. The pleasant, playful mood between them testifies once again to Da Vinci’s ability and ultimately the need to humanize the aunts. Finally, in every composition and portrait that Leonardo Da Vinci ever made, the background is so interesting and the way it spreads out, giving the feeling of a dreamy third dimension between rocks, foliage and dream environments that embrace both technically and aesthetically the final result.
Vincent Willem van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on 30 March 1853 and died on 29 July 1890 was a Dutch Post Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh’s work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37.[During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold. His paintings
Starry Night, 1889
The painting depicts a night scene with eleven swirls of stars and a bright yellow crescent moon. In the background there are hills, in the middle of the ground there is a moonlit city with a church that has an elongated bell tower, and in the foreground is the dark green silhouette of a cypress tree.
Cafe terrace at night, 1988
The painting Outside Cafe at Night, where the townspeople of the region can still stand at the northeast corner of the Place du Forum (Place du Forum), where the artist had set up his easel.Overlooking the terrace of the popular cafe towards the artificial lighting, as well as the imposed darkness of the rue du Palais which ended in a house. (to the left, not pictured) and beyond that, the tower of a former church (today the Epigraphic Museum [Musée Lapidaire]). To the right, Van Gogh also showed a lighted shop, as well as some branches from the trees around the site, but omitted the remains of the Roman monuments right next to this small shop. The painting is currently in the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterloo, Holland.
PABLO PICASSO
Pablo Ruiz Picasso [a] [b] (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, engraver, ceramist and theater designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most important artists of the 20th century His painting
Guernica
Guernica (Guernica in Spanish or Guernica, with Latin rendering in Greek), one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous works, is a large-scale oil painting of 1937, one of his best-known works worldwide, and is considered by many art critics as the strongest painting with an anti war message in history. It is exhibited in Madrid, at the Museo Reina Sofía (Museo Reina Sofía). Don Quixote
Don Quixote is a 1955 sketch by Pablo Picasso of the Spanish literary hero and sidekick, Sancho Panza. It was presented to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the first part, published in 1605, of Miguel de Cervantes” novel Don Quixote. Done on August 10, 1955, the Don Quixote drawing was in a very different style from Picasso’s earlier Blue, Pink and Cubist periods.
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch (Edvard Munch, December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His most famous work, The Scream, is one of the iconic paintings of world art.Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Christendom (now Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of the nihilist Hans Jaeger, who encouraged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state («soul painting»). From this arose his distinct style.
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His paintings
The Scream
The Scream is the popular name given to a composition created by the Norwegian Expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1893. The original German title Munch gave his work was Der Schrei der Natur (The Scream of Nature) and the Norwegian title is Skrik (Shriek). The anguished face in the painting has become one of art’s most iconic images, considered to symbolize the angst of the human condition.
Anxiety
Anxiety is an oil-on-canvas painting created by the expressionist artist Edvard Munch in 1894. It is now in the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway. Many art critics feel that Anxiety is closely related to Munch’s more famous piece, The
Scream (1893). The faces show despair and the dark colors show a depressed state. Many critics also believe it’s meant to show the emotions of heartbreak and sorrow.
