Parmigianino was a prominent Italian Mannerist Painter - Lucretia 1540

Parmigianino, Lucretia - 1540

 

Parmigianino, Lucretia  (detail)

 

Parmagianino or Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, also known as Francesco Mazzola or Parmigianino or sometimes "Parmigiano", was a prominent Italian Mannerist painter active in Florence, Rome, Bologna, and his native city of Parma

 

 

Georgia O'Keeffe Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at Sotheby's, far above the estimated $10–15 million estimate.

Georgia O'Keeffe Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44.4 million at Sotheby's, far above the estimated $10–15 million estimate.
Photo: courtesy Sotheby's.

 

The Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville, Arkansas, is responsible for last year's record-breaking Georgia O'Keeffe sale, as well as a major Jasper Johns purchase, reports Lee Rosenbaum on CultureGrrl. Clearly, the Qataris aren't the only people attempting to keep news of their big-ticket art purchases on the down low (see  Paul Gauguin Painting Sells for Record $300 Million to Qatar Museums in Private Sale and Does Qatar's $300 Million Paul Gauguin Acquisition Hide a Dark Secret?.

O'Keeffe's  Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1 sold for $44 million at the Sotheby's Evening Contemporary sale in November. This set the record both for the artist and for a work by a female artist (see  O'Keeffe Painting Sells for $44 Million at Sotheby's, Sets Record for Work by Female Artist, topping  Joan Mitchell's Untitled, which sold for $11.9 million at Christie's New York this past May. The work nearly tripled its $15 million high estimate. Crystal Bridges also reportedly picked up Johns's Flag (1983) at the same auction for $36 million.

Founded and primarily funded by Alice Walton, the Crystal Bridges museum opened in late 2011 after a flurry of major, high-priced American art purchases by the Walmart heiress. Many of these acquisitions remained a secret until the museum's public unveiling, a lack of transparency that upset many in the art world.

Although the museum's collecting has slowed of late, the purported O'Keeffe and Johns sales demonstrate a renewed commitment to acquisitions, and a return to secretive practices. Rosenbaum is critical of the museum's decision not to announce the purchase of either painting, arguing that it "demonstrates a misunderstanding of the responsibility of museums to make information about the works in their collections (not to mention the objects themselves) available to the public."

The sale cemented O'Keeffe's place at the top of the marketplace for female artists and landed her among the year's most impressive auctions (see Who Are the Most Expensive Women Artists at Auction? and The 10 Most Expensive Auction Trophies of 2014.

 

Bal au Moulin de la Galette by Pierre-Auguste Renoir #art for art lovers

 

Bal au Moulin de la Galette (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Sold at Auction in 1990, for $78.1 million. This Renoir masterpiece, the most expensive example of Impressionism ever sold, portrays a Sunday afternoon dance in a Montmartre dance garden. It is one of the most best-known Impressionist paintings, and highlights the artist's unique skill in capturing dappled light, which infuses the whole work with a soft-focus quality. Own a fine art Masterpiece without paying the million dollar price. #paintingstogo.com Trusted expert of inspired hand painted oil canvas reproductions.

Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin was reportedly sold for a record $300 million.

Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) a 1892 oil on canvas by French artist Paul Gauguin was reportedly sold for a record $300 million.

The oil-on-canvas was produced in 1892 during Gauguin's first visit to French Polynesia. It features a pair of Tahitian girls seated next to a tree.

A work by French painter Paul Gauguin, who died penniless in 1903, has reportedly smashed the record books as the most expensive ever sold. The piece, Nafea Faa Ipoipo (Will You Marry Me?) is believed to have fetched $300 million. It is believed to have been purchased by the state-financed Qatar Museums and to have topped the previous record, also set by Qatar, which reportedly bought Cezanne's The Card Players in 2011 for $259 million. #art oil canvas reproductions, own priceless art without the million dollar price.

Le Bassin aux Nynpheas by Claude Monet - #Art Own a Masterpiece without the million dollar price.

Le Bassin aux Nynpheas by Claude Monet - One of the great Impressionistic landscape paintings by one of the world's best landscape artists this painting is an outstanding large-scale example of Claude Monet's Water lilies series. Influenced by Japonism, it features the famous Japanese bridge in Monet's water garden at Giverny, demonstrating his fascination with plein-air painting and his pursuit of pure Impressionism. One of the Worlds Most Expensive Paintings ($80.5m) (2008) #Art Own a Masterpiece without the million dollar price 

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci #PaintingsToGo.com Custom Created Reproductions

Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Reputedly the most valuable painting in the world. Best paintings in general, most of the world's best #art resides in famous churches, museums, or galleries. This certainly applies to works by Old Masters like Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, Rembrandt and Vermeer, few of which are in private hands, and most of which are priceless. Estimates of the value of the Mona Lisa, vary from $700 million to $1 billion. #art oil painting reproductions Let PaintingsToGo.com bring the love of art into your life.

Rembrandt - The Man with the Golden Helmet - 1650, #PaintingsToGo®

 

 

The Man with the Golden Helmet - 1650

Claude Monet - Grand Canal - Impressionist Art is Enjoying Renewed Interest #art makes a timeless gift.

Claude Monet - Grand Canal #art makes a timeless gift. Impressionist art is enjoying renewed interest. Throughout history art has been described in as many ways as it has genres: harmony, life distilled, thought expressed through form, a habit-forming drug, and even revolt and even a revolt against extinction. And to be sure art has had a deserved and important place throughout human history. #PaintingsToGo®

Piero di Cosimo, The Liberation of Andromeda (1510/ 1513).

 

Piero di Cosimo, The Liberation of Andromeda (1510/ 1513).
Photo Uffizi Gallery.

 

Nearly 500 years after his death, Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522), an Old Master painter and inspiration to surrealists including André Breton, will be having his first solo exhibition, reports the Art Newspaper.

The exhibition, which will open at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. February 1, will be a comprehensive look at the idiosyncratic artist and his work offering up 34 original works by Piero and four attributed paintings.

Giorgio Vasari, a 16th century painter and art historian known for penning the seminal art historical text The Lives of the Artists, once described Piero as an unhygienic, solitary person, "more animal than human." Vasari reported that Piero died alone, having been found by his few friends at the base of his staircase. Curator at the National Gallery, Gretchen Hirschauer and associate professor of Italian Renaissance art at NYU, Dennis Geronimus, wanted to pull back the veil of mystery that shrouds the underrated Piero, a contemporary of Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo.

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec - At the Moulin Rouge - The Clowness Cha-U-Kao

 The Clowness Cha-U-Kao

 

 

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to produce a series of posters. His mother had left Paris and, though Henri had a regular income from his family, making posters offered him a living of his own. Other artists looked down on the work, but Henri was so aristocratic he did not care. The cabaret reserved a seat for him and displayed his paintings. Among the well-known works that he painted for the Moulin Rouge and other Parisian nightclubs are depictions of the dancer Louise Weber, known as the outrageous "The Glutton" who created the "French Can-Can".

Auguste Renoir Paintings

 

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

Georgia O'Keeffe Blossom

 

 

O'Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. She made large-format paintings of enlarged blossoms, presenting them close up as if seen through a magnifying lens, and New York buildings, most of which date from the same decade. Beginning in 1929, when she began working part of the year in Northern New Mexico—which she made her permanent home in 1949—O’Keeffe depicted subjects specific to that area. O'Keeffe has been recognized as the Mother of American Modernism

The Battle of Trafalgar

 

Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson

 aboard HMS Victory defeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships.

 

 

The Victory Breaks the French Line. The Battle of Trafalgar naval engagement fought by the Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies, during the War of the

Third Coalition of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle was the most decisive naval victory of the war.

Dale Chihuly, is an American Glass Sculptor

 

Dale Chihuly, is an American glass sculptor and entrepreneur.

His works are considered unique to the field of blown glass,

"moving it into the realm of large-scale sculpture,".

The House of Fabergé made Imperial Faberge Eggs - Russian Tsars Alexander III and Nicholas II gave to their wives and mothers.

Erik Numiya - Original art - Acrylic on board

Franz Xaver Winterhalter - German painter, known for his portraits of royalty in the mid-nineteenth century. His name has become associated with fashionable court portraiture.

 

 Edouard Andre, 1857

 

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland in the Robes of State

Giovanni Boldini - Consuelo Vanderbilt the Duchess of Marlboro and her son, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill

Cynthia "Cindy" Morris Sherman is an American photographer best known for her conceptual portraits.

Antoine Watteau Painter

Antoine Watteau (French: October 10, 1684 – July 18, 1721) better known as Antoine Watteau was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in color and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens). He revitalized the waning Baroque style, and indeed moved it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical Rococo.

Jean-Honore Fragonard French Painter in the Troubadour Style

 

 

Vincent Van Gogh

"I often think the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. ~ Vincent Van Gogh

The Kiss - Romance is in the Air

Vincent Van Gogh

"The way to know life is to love many things." ~ Vincent Van Gogh

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Claude Monet (1840-1926)

Born November 14, 1840, in Paris, France. Claude Monet was raised in Le Havre, where he developed a reputation as a caricature artist by the time he was 15. In 1858, the young artist met landscape painter Eugène Boudin, a mentor who first introduced him to outdoor painting. Monet was reluctant to leave the studio and the familiarity of indoor scenes, but plein air painting eventually became the basis for his life’s work.

Against his parents’ wishes, Claude Monet left home for Paris in 1859 to pursue a career in painting. There, he was inspired by the work of Eugène Delacroix, Charles Daubigny, and Camille Corot. He studied at the free Académie Suisse, where he met Camille Pissarro, and was a frequent patron of the Brasserie des Martyrs, a gathering place for fellow realist artists such as Gustave Courbet.

Claude Monet took a brief hiatus from his artistic pursuits to serve in the military in Algeria from 1860 to 1862. Upon his return to Paris, he picked up where he left off, studying art, experimenting with new styles, traveling, and forming important friendships with fellow painters, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Édouard Manet. He also worked in the forest at Fontainebleau with the Barbizon artists Théodore Rousseau, Jean François Millet, as well as with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.

During the 1960s, Claude Monet was constantly traveling, having become captivated by natural light, atmosphere, and color. The artist continually sought to convey the remarkable variety and subtle particulars of each new landscape. Terrace at Sainte-Adresse (1867) exemplified this experimentation with its shimmering array of bright, natural colors, eschewing the somber browns and blacks of the earlier landscape tradition. Tragically, few of Monet's canvases from this early period survived. The artist was financially unstable and frequently destroyed his own paintings rather than have them seized by creditors.

In 1870, Claude Monet married his wife, Camille, and the two traveled to London and eventually settled at Argenteuil. His best-known, most popular works were produced during this time at Argenteuil, where he often painted alongside Renoir, Sisley, Caillebotte, and Manet. Monet regularly exhibited his paintings in the private Impressionist group shows, which first took place in 1874. During that first show his painting Impression: Sunrise (1872) inspired a hostile newspaper critic to call all the artists "Impressionists," a name that persists to characterize the artistic movement today.

Claude Monet's paintings from the 1870s, notably Red Boats at Argenteuil (1875), are fine examples of the new Impressionist style. The paintings are essentially illusionist, but ring with a chromatic vibrancy. Monet worked directly from nature and revealed that even on the darkest, gloomiest day, an infinite variety of colors exist. To capture the fleeting lights and hues, Monet had to employ a new painting technique using short brushstrokes filled with individual color. The result was a canvas alive with painterly activity, the opposite of the smooth blended surfaces of the past.

While traditional landscape artists painted what they saw in their mind, Claude Monet, sought to paint the world exactly how he saw it, not how he knew it should look. So rather than painting a myriad of separate leaves, he depicted splashes of constantly changing light and color. It’s important to note that in this aspect, Monet belongs to the tradition of Renaissance illusionism. In depicting the natural world, he based his art on perceptual rather than conceptual knowledge.

In 1883 Claude Monet moved to Giverny, and likewise most of his Impressionist colleagues left the security of the cohesive group to explore their own directions. While his home was in Giverny, he never ceased traveling—to London, Madrid, and Venice, as well as within his native country. Thanks to the art dealer Durand-Ruel, Monet gradually gained critical and financial success during the late 1880s and the 1890s. A lifelong supporter of Monet and his work, Durand-Ruel sponsored one-man exhibitions as early as 1883 and organized the first large-scale Impressionist group show in the United States.

How to Spot a Real Rembrandt

A new Getty show offers tricks for telling the difference between master and pupils

By CANDACE JACKSON

A show that opened this week at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles features dozens of authentic Rembrandt drawings—and just as many that aren't. The idea is to reveal to museum-goers the tricks experts and art scholars use to identify his unsigned artwork, something the museum world rarely publicizes.

The "fake" Rembrandts in the Getty's show are all drawings attributed to the Dutch master painter for hundreds of years, until as recently as a few years ago. Over the past 30 years, new scholarship and cataloguing techniques have helped scholars determine that at least half of the more than 1,000 "Rembrandt" drawings were by others.

One reason for all the confusion: Rembrandt had one of the largest teaching practices in his day, with at least 50 pupils studying closely alongside him in his sprawling Amsterdam studio. The curriculum included close imitations of his style and subject matter, says Lee Hendrix, the Getty curator for the show.

In the 17th century, some students eventually became more famous than Rembrandt, though of course that's not true today. (In the latter years of his life, Rembrandt's naturalistic style fell out of favor with wealthy patrons, who came to prefer a more flattering, less realistic painting, says Ms. Hendrix.) The Getty show features early training drawings by several of his best-known pupils, including Ferdinand Bol.

Another problem for scholars has been that although Rembrandt drew prolifically, very few of his drawings are signed. Scholars have used the signed drawings, and drawings connected to signed paintings, to find themes and symbols common to the unsigned work. These characteristics—like his use of storytelling, expressive faces and directional light— form the basis for determining modern historians which unsigned works are actually Rembrandts.

"Most people see [authenticating artwork] as a sort of scary, mystical process," says Ms. Hendrix. "It's not."

The Getty has organized the show in several galleries. In each, it has paired drawings side by side, on the left a real Rembrandt and on the right a work done by a student, with text explaining the clues to authorship. There's a central room that viewers can visit and revisit to check, via touch-screen video and text, the tips for identifying Rembrandts.

One pair includes one drawing that depicts St. John the Baptist preaching to a group (Rembrandt often painted biblical subjects), another of St. Paul preaching. On the left, Ms. Hendrix points out, the listeners' eight faces each have a distinct expression (bored, fascinated, confused, skeptical). In the other, the listeners are roughly sketched, their faces similar. These drawings were chosen to illustrate Rembrandt's tendency to focus on facial expressions.

Several pairs at the Getty depict the same nude model or street scene, but drawn from slightly different angles, a tip-off to scholars that one might not be a Rembrandt. Ms. Hendrix says the master would often join his students in drawing exercises—but of course would have a slightly different view, depending on where he was standing. Two drawings titled "A Quack and His Public" roughly sketch a snake-oil salesman putting on a show for a street crowd. For years they were both thought to be Rembrandts, but the one painted from a side view shows a defined emotion in the charlatan's face, while student Gerbrand van den Eeckhout has drawn the man from behind, with no expressions on faces in the crowd, Ms. Hendrix says.

Further confusing the matter is that some drawings even feature corrections done by Rembrandt himself, or lines drawn to show students what they should have done.

The exhibition is one of several devoted to the artist's work opening soon in Southern California. On Jan. 9 a show featuring Rembrandt prints will open at the Hammer Museum in L.A. On Jan. 22, the Timken Museum of Art in San Diego opens a show focusing on Rembrandt's New Testament prints from the 1650s. The Getty show closes Feb. 28 and won't travel: The drawings are too delicate.

Ms. Hendrix says that even though scholars generally agree that the drawings designated as Rembrandts in the Getty's show are legit, "in the end, it is always hypothetical."

Write to Candace Jackson at candace.jackson@wsj.com

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Gustav Klimt - Son of Gold Engraver

Gustav Klimt was born at the XIV district of Baumgarten in Vienna on 14 July 1862 as son of a gold engraver. In 1876 he began his studies at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule under the influence of the history painter Hans Makart, which was apparent in his first orders for theatre decorations and ceiling paintings. Soon Klimt received prizes for his works. At the turn of the century - he was just designing wall and ceiling decorations for the university - he developed a new two-dimensionally-ornamental, decorative style, which combines naturalistic details of bodies with abstract, colourful, mosaic-like patterns. His orderers protested resolutely and legal proceedings erupted. In 1905 Klimt was allowed to keep the designs in return of his payment. At the same time the Vienna Secession emerged and Klimt was a founding member and its first president from 1897 to 1905. In 1902 Klimt executed the famous Beethoven frieze for Josef Maria Olbrich's Secession building, which can still be visited in the basement of the building. In 1905 Klimt and a group of like-minded people left the Secession due to conflicts with the artist association's naturalistic wing. Klimt's motifs were partly provocatively erotic, partly playfully ornamental. He created impressing portraits, especially of ladies from the Viennese high society, but also intensively dense landscape paintings. Like no other artist and as the favourite of certain circles of the Viennese society of the ending monarchy he was able to depict the spirit of the feudal bourgeoisie with its aspirations to cultivate the aesthetic and its yearning for the pleasures of life at the Fin-de-Siècle. Klimt travelled extensively - one of his most important works is not in Austria, but in Brussels: he executed the decoration of the dining room in Josef Hoffmann's Palais Stoclet, a Gesamtkunstwerk of Viennese Art Nouveau. The artist's international approval was proven by numerous exhibitions and finally moved the conservative spirits, who honoured him: Although a professorship for Klimt was repeatedly refused, he became honorary member of the academies in Vienna and Munich. Gustab Klimt died from a stroke in his hometown Vienna on 6 February 1918.

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Scientists In Italy Say To Ease Pain, Gaze At A Painting.

A glance at a painting may help as much as aspirin, say scientists in Italy.

Volunteers who viewed famous works of art while exposed to uncomfortable stimuli reported less discomfort while looking at paintings they liked. Scientists say the brain's pleasure center lights up when we see something we find beautitiful, distracting us from unpleasant sensations. The paintings that proved the best? Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Starry Night by Van Gogh. See some right now. Find these works of art online at http://www.PaintingsToGo.com