10 Western painters you should know
1.PABLO PICASSO(1881-1973)
Michelangelo, no other
artist had such ambitions at the time
of placing his oeuvre in the history of
art.Picasso created the avant-garde.
Picasso destroyed the avant-garde. He
looked back at the masters and
surpassed
them all.
2. GIOTTO DI BONDONE
was the first real painter, like Adam
was the first man. We agree with
the first part. Giotto continued the
Byzantine style of Cimabue and
other predecessors, but he earned
the right to be included in gold
letters in the history of painting when he added a
quality unknown to date: emotionator.
3. LEONARDO DA VINCI (1452-1519)
forever known as the author of the most
famous painting of all time, the
Gioconda" or "Mona Lisa". But he is
more, much
more. His humanist, almost scientific
gaze, entered the art of the quattrocento and
revoluted it with his sfumetto .
4. PAUL CÉZANNE (1839-1906)
"Cezanne is the father of us all." This
famous quote has been attributed to
both Picasso and Matisse, and
certainly it does not matter who
actually said it, because in either case
would be appropriate. While he exhibited with the
Impressionist painters, Cézanne left behind the whole
group and developed a style of painting never seen so
far, which opened the door for the arrival of Cubism
and the rest of the vanguards of the twentieth
century.
5. REMBRANDT VAN RIJN
(1606-1669)
shadows in Rembrandt's works
seem to reflect his own life,
moving from fame to oblivion.
Rembrandt is the great master of
Dutch painting, and, along with Velázquez, the main
figure of 17th century European Painting. He is, in
addition, the great master of the self-portrait of all
time, an artist who had never show mercy at the time
of depicting himself.
6. DIEGO VELÁZQUEZ
(1599-1660)
Along with Rembrandt,
one of the summits of
Baroque painting. But
unlike the Dutch artist,
the Sevillan painter spent
most of his life in the
comfortable but rigid
courtesan society.
Nevertheless, Velázquez was an innovator, a "painter
of atmospheres" two centuries before Turner and the
Impressionists, which it is shown in his colossal 'royal
paintings' ("Meninas", "The Forge of Vulcan"), but
also in his small and memorable sketches of the Villa
Medici.
7. WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)
Although the title of "father of
abstraction" has been assigned to
several artists, from Picasso to Turner,
few painters could claim it with as much
justice as Kandinsky. Many artists have
succeeded in painting emotion, but very few have
changed the way we understand art. Wassily
Kandinsky is one of them.
8. CLAUDE MONET (1840-1926)
history of art is sometimes
"underrated", as Art lovers tend to
see only the overwhelming beauty
that emanates from his canvases,
ignoring the complex technique and
composition of the work (a "defect" somehow caused
by Monet himself, when he declared that "I do not
understand why everyone discusses my art and
pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to
understand, when it is simply necessary to love"
). However, Monet's experiments, including studies
on the changes in an object caused by daylight at
different times of the day; and the almost abstract
quality of his "water lilies", are clearly a prologue to
the art of the twentieth century.
9. CARAVAGGIO
(1571-1610)
violent Caravaggio
is
considered the
father of Baroque
painting, with his
spectacular use of
lights and shadows. Caravaggio’s
chiaroscuro became so famous that
many painters started to copy his
paintings, creating the 'Caravaggisti' style.
10. JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM
TURNER (1775-1851)
Turner is the best landscape painter of
Western painting. Whereas he had
been at his beginnings an academic
painter, Turner was slowly but
unstoppably evolving towards a free,
atmospheric style, sometimes even outlining the
abstraction, which was misunderstood and rejected
by the same critics who had admired him for
decades.
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