Later, the term was used to denote a certain method of pain...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=152 Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:51:50 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=152

For the past sixteen years, Larson-Juhl has been a proud partner of the Global ReLeaf initiative, planting trees and making a difference all around the world...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=151 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:32:23 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=151 The exact meaning of the two figures in this painting has been debated for centuries. But the subject of worldly versus divine love, popularized by medieval artists, was certainly a familiar one to Titian. Thus, the two women are usually presumed to symbolize different aspects of the goddess dancers both on and off the stage. He always worked from his drawings and from memory, however—never directly on the spot.

Lautrec’s compositions, it owes much to the art of the Japanese woodcut in its large flat areas, abrupt color div...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=148 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:12:18 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=148 Despite extensive repainting, all the parts of this work that have survived intact are demonstrably characteristic of Leonardo’s handling of motion, light and landscape backgrounds. At first this may seem a calm, even static, composition, but certain details reveal the artist’s preoccupation with the principle of motion...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=147 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:49:09 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=147 With these figures of the Lord and Adam, Michelangelo represents the words from Genesis (1:27): "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God created He him..." The Lord’s gesture is superb, as his mighty arm becomes the channel for the life force. Adam’s arm, resting passively on his knee, suggests the newness and helplessness of his body before it is infused with life.

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=145 Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:54:23 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=145 This small painting is, paradoxically, monumental in scale. In contrast to the lively animation of most of Homer’s paintings at this time, there is brooding stillness here. The figure of the mother seems carved of wood; sails are are up but there is no sign of a breeze to move them.

Van Gogh noted that Cachet had "the hea...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=143 Tue, 3 Mar 2009 15:36:29 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=143 Fascination with the forms and vitality of African tribal sculpture is evident here. Picasso has incorporated his own stylized version of a Congolese mask into an abstractly patterned composition that sweeps across and down the canvas in strongly accented rhythmic gyrations. The tones of sand and brown suggest the basketry supports with which these masks were often associated; the red slashings that delineate areas of the figure may also be ...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=142 Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:36:09 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=142 Hollywood actor Antonio Banderas has confirmed that the Salvador Dali movie project has been delayed. According to various sources, the delay is actually due to an ideological dispute on the treatment of the script with the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation.

The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation currently serves as his official estate. The U.S. copyright representative for the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation is the Artists Rights Society. In 200...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=141 Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:03:10 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=141 ArtRev.com has done it again! What better way to introduce art enthusiasts to the wonderful world of art collecting and art appreciation than to give away FREE artwork by Elke Sommer. For a limited time only, ArtRev.com is giving away a fine art print by world famous artist, actress, and model, Larson-Juhl company.

The pose in front of a stone wall with the name (misspelled) in graffiti style suggests s...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=138 Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:40:13 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=138 Throughout his career, Renoir enjoyed painting still life, usually flowers or fruit. When arthritis limited his manual flexibility, he restricted himself to tinier brush strokes and smaller canvases. These modest flower studies met his needs physically and aesthetically. Knowing
(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=136 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:45:49 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=136 The Militia Company of Captain Banning Cocq is the real name of this painting, which was set not in darkness as was long believed, but in sunlight! In the two hundred years it hung over fireplaces and candlelight, it was gradually obscured by soot and by many coats of varnish. When it was thoroughly cleaned in 1947, the painting was dramatically restored to its early brightness. Its original size, unfortunately, could not be recaptured. On i...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=135 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:22:46 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=135 Matisse documented this work in progress over a six-month period by twenty-one photographs that show how he slowly simplified and exaggerated the model’s proportions to create a monumental decorative composition. Gradually, his use of color became flatter and he made the checked surfaces of background and foreground more geometric to offset the sinuous cur...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=134 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:54:32 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=134 The identity of the woman who posed for this painting and its companion piece, The Clothed Maja, remains a mystery until today. Romantic gossip claims she was the Duchess of Alba, her features disguised to prevent recognition. Perhaps she was one of the mistresses of Manuel Godoy, Charles IV’s prime minister, to whom the paintings belonged—and who would have been powerful enough to defy the Inquisition's ban on female nudes. When Godoy fell fr...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=133 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:36:38 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=133 A puzzle picture, this composition seems to be more than a group portrait of Spain's royal family. Many people are represented here: the Infanta Margarita certainly, and her maids of honour, but equally her two dwarfs. It is also a portrait of the queen’s steward on the back stairs, and of the attendants sketched in the middle. At the same...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=132 Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:58:38 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=132 This painting can be considered the very essence of Bonnard’s Intimist style and subject matter. A moment of complete privacy, of relaxed self-absorption, has been caught forever, with such loving delicacy that privacy seems not to be invaded.

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=130 Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:23:09 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=130 Despite centuries of controversy, no evidence exists to prove that this is not a portrait of the third wife of a successful merchant, Francesco di Bartolommeo del Giocondo. Layers of varnish have darkened the work but cannot hide what is the quintessence of Leonardo’s style. The blending of many thin layers of paint renders the curve...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=129 Mon, 1 Dec 2008 14:40:05 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=129 As in other works of the Blue Period, Picasso’s theme is maternity, but there are suggestions of other themes, perhaps related, concerns. The canvases indicated in the background of the artwork appear to deal with love, sorrow and even solitude. Perhaps this is a commentary on sexual versus maternal love. Or it may be a variation on the Cycle of Life paintings popular at the time with some of
(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=127 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:45:05 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=127 Abstract Expressionism: American art movement of the 1940s that emphasized form and color within a nonrepresentational framework. Jackson Pollock initiated the revolutionary technique of splattering the paint directly on canvas to achieve the subconscious interpretation of the artist's inner vision of realit...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=126 Sun, 2 Nov 2008 16:07:51 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=126 Impressionism was the first of the modern art movements. Although Manet formed the bridge from the art of Courbet to Impressionism, the name was derived from Monet's painting "Impression, Sunrise" (1872: Paris, Musee Marmottan). In th...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=125 Sat, 1 Nov 2008 15:52:43 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=125 A cel, short for celluloid, is a transparent sheet on which objects are drawn or painted for traditional, hand-drawn animation. Celluloid was used for animation and film production up until the late 20th century, however, it burned easily and suffered from spontaneous decomposition, and was largely replaced by cellulose acetate plastics.

Gener...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=124 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:39:15 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=124 The original founders of Cubism were Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Andre Der...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=123 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:00:28 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=123 Political events have always influenced art and the artist throughout history. Most art throughout history has been produced under the influence of state, religion and market and political power. This is why politics and art are necessarily connected....

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=122 Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:14:47 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=122 Art Deco is a movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s. Its name was derived from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, where the style was first exhibited. Limited Edition and Original Artworks offered on ArtRev.com ship with a Certificate of Authenticity free of charge. This Certificate is an official and valuable document that most insurance companies now require in order to insure artworks against damage or theft. Note: Unlike most art galleries and retailers who usually charge up to $50 for a COA (Certi...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=119 Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:47:23 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=119 The idea of incorporating fine art to spruce up an existing home or office decor may discourage many, usually due to the high cost associated with it. Transforming the mood of a room or an entire house with fine art doesn't require a trip to a Sotheby's auction or buying an expensive artwork from your local gal...

(FULL ARTICLE CONTINUED ON ARTREV.COM)]]> http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=118 Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:34:31 EST http://www.artrev.com/blog/blogentry.asp?bid=118 A comprehensive list of Museums in Florida with fine art collections. Have you visited one of these wonderful museums? Please feel free to share your experience with others!