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# 8. Post impressionism
Post Impressionism
A painting by Paul Cezanne
Post impressionism began in the 19th century.
It was mainly still-lives and landscapes.
The post impressionists liked to use lots of
colors and shadows.
Post Impressionism
A painting by Paul Cezanne
Post impressionism began in the 19th century.
It was mainly still-lives and landscapes.
The post impressionists liked to use lots of
colors and shadows.
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Styles of Art
Dear Mrs.Visalakshi Ramani,
I am astounded by your in depth knowledge on various subjects of interest. I am happy that you have taken-up the subject of Art and painting. Your posts on Art has taken me back to my college days , when I had the opportunity of reading on the life and works of various Artists and art forms. My all time favorite in Italian Renaissance period of Painting and Sculpture is Michelangelo and among the modern sculptors I like the works of Auguste Rodin of France. Both I had the opportunity to see during my brief visit to Paris. After seeing various Museums in London, Paris and Amsterdam where the works great artists are kept, I felt how insensitive and backward we in India are in preserving our treasures of Art.
Please continue your valuable contribution,
Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
Dear Mrs.Visalakshi Ramani,
I am astounded by your in depth knowledge on various subjects of interest. I am happy that you have taken-up the subject of Art and painting. Your posts on Art has taken me back to my college days , when I had the opportunity of reading on the life and works of various Artists and art forms. My all time favorite in Italian Renaissance period of Painting and Sculpture is Michelangelo and among the modern sculptors I like the works of Auguste Rodin of France. Both I had the opportunity to see during my brief visit to Paris. After seeing various Museums in London, Paris and Amsterdam where the works great artists are kept, I felt how insensitive and backward we in India are in preserving our treasures of Art.
Please continue your valuable contribution,
Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
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Dear Sir,
Thank you very much!ray2:
I also refer the Internet to make the facts authentic and reliable.
I am sure the techniques used by the great painter of the west are far more advanced than our own.
My elder son and his wife used to visit the Art Museum in Chicago frequently. He took me and my husband there a few times.
Thereafter we decided to spend the Tuesdays there - since there was no entry fees on that day.
The place would be thronged by the school kids and people like us visiting from other countries. It was a mixed culture, mixed crowd but with one common interest...Art!
with warm regards,
Visalakshi Ramani.
Thank you very much!
ray2:I also refer the Internet to make the facts authentic and reliable.
I am sure the techniques used by the great painter of the west are far more advanced than our own.
My elder son and his wife used to visit the Art Museum in Chicago frequently. He took me and my husband there a few times.
Thereafter we decided to spend the Tuesdays there - since there was no entry fees on that day.
The place would be thronged by the school kids and people like us visiting from other countries. It was a mixed culture, mixed crowd but with one common interest...Art!
with warm regards,
Visalakshi Ramani.
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I learned about the connection between the seven colors and the seven swaras of music there.
Some famous painters used the famous paintings of artists as an inspiration to their musical composition. :drum:
A few others used the famous musical composition as in inspiration to their painting on canvas. :ear:
Apparently all the art forms are related--especially the visual and the auditory--since both transfer the emotions of the creator to the enjoyer!
Some famous painters used the famous paintings of artists as an inspiration to their musical composition. :drum:
A few others used the famous musical composition as in inspiration to their painting on canvas. :ear:
Apparently all the art forms are related--especially the visual and the auditory--since both transfer the emotions of the creator to the enjoyer!
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Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. His works are famous for their vivid colors and deep emotional impact. Yet he had suffered from deep anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, throughout his short life span of 37 years!
Van Gogh got very little appreciation for his works when he was alive. He became world famous only posthumously! Today he is considered as the one of the main contributors of Modern Art and one of the greatest painters of all time!
He started painting only in his late twenties! He had very little formal training and was in reality a self taught artist! His best paintings were produced in the last two years of his life. He had produced over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches!
His early works have only somber earth tones as opposed to the vivid colors used in his later works!
Van Gogh was born on 30 March in 1853, in Southern Netherlands. As a child he was very serious, silent and thoughtful. He suffered from recurring episodes of mental illness throughout his life but the episodes became more and more pronounced during the last few years of his life!
He was either unwilling to paint or unable to paint! This would make him greatly depressed. On 27 July 1890, he walked into a field and shot himself in the chest. He survived the bullet only to die two days later!
His works seem to reflect the state of his mind, at the time of painting them. Some are somber and sober. Others show optimism, hope and a desire to become normal. Some others are downright bleak, showing utter despair and hopelessness!
By mid 20th Century Van Gogh had been posthumously recognized as one of the greatest painters of the world!
Van Gogh has created 37 self portraits between 1886 and 1889! His self portrait without beard is one of the costliest paintings in the world. It was sold for an astronomical sum of 71.5 million $ in New York in 1998!
Whether his madness actually helped him to draw pictures with greater emotional impact or whether he would have been a greater artist minus his mental problems, is a subject fit for debate!
Visalakshi Ramani
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The high lighted portions in purple prove how his mental state affected his work of art.
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. His works are famous for their vivid colors and deep emotional impact. Yet he had suffered from deep anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, throughout his short life span of 37 years!
Van Gogh got very little appreciation for his works when he was alive. He became world famous only posthumously! Today he is considered as the one of the main contributors of Modern Art and one of the greatest painters of all time!
He started painting only in his late twenties! He had very little formal training and was in reality a self taught artist! His best paintings were produced in the last two years of his life. He had produced over 900 paintings and 1100 drawings and sketches!
His early works have only somber earth tones as opposed to the vivid colors used in his later works!
Van Gogh was born on 30 March in 1853, in Southern Netherlands. As a child he was very serious, silent and thoughtful. He suffered from recurring episodes of mental illness throughout his life but the episodes became more and more pronounced during the last few years of his life!
He was either unwilling to paint or unable to paint! This would make him greatly depressed. On 27 July 1890, he walked into a field and shot himself in the chest. He survived the bullet only to die two days later!
His works seem to reflect the state of his mind, at the time of painting them. Some are somber and sober. Others show optimism, hope and a desire to become normal. Some others are downright bleak, showing utter despair and hopelessness!
By mid 20th Century Van Gogh had been posthumously recognized as one of the greatest painters of the world!
Van Gogh has created 37 self portraits between 1886 and 1889! His self portrait without beard is one of the costliest paintings in the world. It was sold for an astronomical sum of 71.5 million $ in New York in 1998!
Whether his madness actually helped him to draw pictures with greater emotional impact or whether he would have been a greater artist minus his mental problems, is a subject fit for debate!
Visalakshi Ramani
Source : <visalakshiramani.wordpress.com>
The high lighted portions in purple prove how his mental state affected his work of art.
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# 9. Primitive Art
An ancient Egyptian soldier.
Primitive Art looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply, and the subjects are "flat", or two-dimensional.
An ancient Egyptian soldier.
Primitive Art looks like art that is done by a child. Usually the picture is painted very simply, and the subjects are "flat", or two-dimensional.
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Close up of those two expressive faces!
Poetry carved in Marble!!!
Poetry carved in Marble!!!
Brahmanyan
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Pieta
Dear Sri KRS,
That is the greatness of good Art, also Music and Nature, the ecstasy of inner joy can elevate us nearer to divinity. Many a time I have also gone through this emotion.
Indeed Pieta (1497-99) is considered the masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture chiseled out of Carranza marble by the great Michelangelo. Incidentally Pieta is the only piece of work carries his signature. How ever "Michelangelo later regretted his outburst of pride and swore never to sign another work of his hands". That was the greatness of this genius.
I hope you know this great work of art has suffered damages, once, four fingers of Mary's left hand
severed while shifting the Sculpture and restored in 1736 and again in 1972 when a mentally deranged person damaged the nose of Mary, shouting "I am Jesus Christ". But this was also reconstructed and restored later.
Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
Dear Sri KRS,
That is the greatness of good Art, also Music and Nature, the ecstasy of inner joy can elevate us nearer to divinity. Many a time I have also gone through this emotion.
Indeed Pieta (1497-99) is considered the masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture chiseled out of Carranza marble by the great Michelangelo. Incidentally Pieta is the only piece of work carries his signature. How ever "Michelangelo later regretted his outburst of pride and swore never to sign another work of his hands". That was the greatness of this genius.
I hope you know this great work of art has suffered damages, once, four fingers of Mary's left hand
severed while shifting the Sculpture and restored in 1736 and again in 1972 when a mentally deranged person damaged the nose of Mary, shouting "I am Jesus Christ". But this was also reconstructed and restored later.
Warm Regards,
Brahmanyan,
Bangalore.
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# 10. Realism
Realism. Louisiana Art.
Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in life.
It began in the 18th century, but the greatest Realist era was in the mid-19th century.
Most Realists were from France, but there were some famous American painters who were Realists also.
Realism. Louisiana Art.
Realism is a type of art that shows things exactly as they appear in life.
It began in the 18th century, but the greatest Realist era was in the mid-19th century.
Most Realists were from France, but there were some famous American painters who were Realists also.
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# 11. Surrealism.
Surrealism in Art. courtesy Google images
Surrealists paintings were generally based on dreams.
Their paintings were filled with familiar objects which were painted to look strange or mysterious.
They hoped their odd paintings would make people look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about things.
They thought that their paintings might stir up feelings in the back of minds of the people!
Surrealism in Art. courtesy Google images
Surrealists paintings were generally based on dreams.
Their paintings were filled with familiar objects which were painted to look strange or mysterious.
They hoped their odd paintings would make people look at things in a different way and change the way they felt about things.
They thought that their paintings might stir up feelings in the back of minds of the people!
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That brings us to the end of the Styles of painting in Art.
After a short gap, we will investigate the mystery behind
the Golden ratio denoted by this symbol.
After a short gap, we will investigate the mystery behind
the Golden ratio denoted by this symbol.
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The Golden Ratio!
Nature exhibits many regular patterns, but there is mathematics behind this magic of creation! Many patterns occur with astonishing mathematical precision.
In the beginning of the 13th century, an Italian Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci discovered one such pattern, popularly known as The Fibonacci Series. It was discovered working on a queer, hypothetical, mathematical problem!
If a pair of rabbits is placed in an enclosed space, and if each pair begets a new pair every month, beginning from the second month, what will be the number of rabbits after one year?
One pair will be born in the second month, one pair in the third month, two pairs in the fourth month, 3 pairs in the fifth month and 5 pairs in the 6th month and so on. This series when written down is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 etc. Each number occurring after the number 1 is the sum of the two preceding numbers.
The petal like florets in the head of a sunflower form two overlapping spirals. The clockwise spiral has 26 florets and the counterclockwise spiral has 34 florets. Both 21 and 34 occur in the Fibonacci series.
Pine cone has 8 clockwise spirals and 5 counterclockwise spirals. Both 5 and 8 occur in the Fibonacci Series. On the top of a pine apple there are normally 8 spirals in one direction and 13in the other. Both the numbers 8 and 13 are in the Fibonacci Series.
As the Fibonacci Series progresses, the ratio of any number to its predecessor becomes close to 1.62:1. Since the time of the Greeks, this has been known as “The Golden Ratio” — the most aesthetically pleasing ratio.
The Golden Ratio can be seen in the proportions of many classical buildings. Countless artists and architects have made use of this ratio–though they never knew anything about the Fibonacci rabbits or his Series!
We find the Golden Ratio in many everyday articles seen around us. Can you locate some of them?
Visalakshi Ramani
Nature exhibits many regular patterns, but there is mathematics behind this magic of creation! Many patterns occur with astonishing mathematical precision.
In the beginning of the 13th century, an Italian Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci discovered one such pattern, popularly known as The Fibonacci Series. It was discovered working on a queer, hypothetical, mathematical problem!
If a pair of rabbits is placed in an enclosed space, and if each pair begets a new pair every month, beginning from the second month, what will be the number of rabbits after one year?
One pair will be born in the second month, one pair in the third month, two pairs in the fourth month, 3 pairs in the fifth month and 5 pairs in the 6th month and so on. This series when written down is 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 etc. Each number occurring after the number 1 is the sum of the two preceding numbers.
The petal like florets in the head of a sunflower form two overlapping spirals. The clockwise spiral has 26 florets and the counterclockwise spiral has 34 florets. Both 21 and 34 occur in the Fibonacci series.
Pine cone has 8 clockwise spirals and 5 counterclockwise spirals. Both 5 and 8 occur in the Fibonacci Series. On the top of a pine apple there are normally 8 spirals in one direction and 13in the other. Both the numbers 8 and 13 are in the Fibonacci Series.
As the Fibonacci Series progresses, the ratio of any number to its predecessor becomes close to 1.62:1. Since the time of the Greeks, this has been known as “The Golden Ratio” — the most aesthetically pleasing ratio.
The Golden Ratio can be seen in the proportions of many classical buildings. Countless artists and architects have made use of this ratio–though they never knew anything about the Fibonacci rabbits or his Series!
We find the Golden Ratio in many everyday articles seen around us. Can you locate some of them?
Visalakshi Ramani
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The petal like florets in the head of a sunflower form two overlapping spirals.
The clockwise spiral has 26 florets and the counterclockwise spiral has 34 florets.
Both 21 and 34 occur in the Fibonacci series.
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Find out the number of golden rectangles
the measurements of the structure satisfies.
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A golden rectangle where (a+b) / a = golden ratio= 1.618
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Golden rectangles yield more and more smaller golden rectangles.
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The corners of the golden rectangles joined by a smooth curve
yields the Golden spiral...the most aesthetic curve found in Nature.
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A golden triangle. The ratio a:b is equivalent to the golden ratio φ.
A golden triangle, also known as the sublime triangle is an isoceles triangle
in which the smaller side is in the golden ratio with its adjacent side.
The golden triangle can also be found in a decagon or a ten-sided polygon, by connecting any two adjacent vertices to the center.
The golden triangle is also uniquely identified as the only triangle to have its three angles in 2:2:1 proportion.
The three angles of a Golden triangle are 72, 72 and 36 degrees.
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The golden triangle in a pentagon.
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The golden triangle in a five-pointed- star and
in a decagon - a ten sided regular polygon .
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Golden ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle are all present in the same work of art.
Small wonder that it is one the world's best master pieces!
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An impressive Golden Spiral Staircase.
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