Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label arts. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Cubism.

Cubism is an art movement. It appeared at the beginning of the XX century.

Cubism is found in painting, literature, architecture, and sculpture.

Pablo Picasso painted some of his paints in this style.

Modernism, surrealism, avant-garde have something in common with Cubism.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/ru/image-vector/set-abstract-face-portraits-shapes-doodle-2484618193?trackingId=380d1375-a2be-4753-848c-eabb3bb993b0&listId=searchResults



Sunday, February 1, 2026

Great people: Beatrix Potter.

Helen Beatrix Potter Heelis was born on July 28, 1866, in London, England.

She was an English writer and illustrator. Beatrix Potter wrote books for children. The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902) is one of her notable works.

Potter died on December 22, 1943, in England.





Thursday, October 2, 2025

Great people: Peter Paul Rubens.

Sir Peter Paul Rubens was born on June 28, 1577, in Holy Roman Empire. He was an artist.

Venus and Adonis (1635), Child with a bird (1614 and 1625), The Judgement of Paris (1606), Diana Returning from the Hunt (1615), and Landscape with Milkmaids and Cattle (1618) are Rubens' works.

Baroque was his movement.

Peter Paul Rubens had wives and children.

He died on May 30, 1640, in Spanish Netherlands.





Sunday, September 21, 2025

Ganymede.

Ganymede or Ganymedes (Γανυμήδης) (Ganymēdēs) was the son of founder and king of Troy Tros (Τρώς) and Callirhoe (Καλλιρρόη) (Kallirróē). So, he was known as the Trojan prince.

One day Zeus turned into an eagle and abducted Ganymede. After this the young man began to live on Mount Olympus.

There are many arts about this legend.



Friday, August 1, 2025

Great people: Filippo Brunelleschi.

Fillipo di ser Brunellesco di Lippo Lapri was born in 1377, in Florence, Italy.

He was known as an Italian architect and sculptor. Filippo Brunelleschi's movement was Renaissance.

Dome of Florence Cathedral is his work.

Filippo Bruneschi died on April 15, 1446, in Florence, Italy.





Sunday, June 1, 2025

Famous people and their quotes. Part hundred eight.

                                                            Filippo Brunelleschi.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/filippo-brunelleschi-1377-1446-he-italian-1400994116


“Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.”

“To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.”

Source of information:

https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/filippo-brunelleschi-quotes 

Monday, April 7, 2025

Futurism.

Futurism was an artistic movement at the beginning of the XX century.

This type of art was in different aspects, such as: architecture, literature, paints, and etc.

Futurism has common features with Art Deco, Surrealism, and Constructivism.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/modern-town-urban-city-complex-business-2114548208



Saturday, March 1, 2025

Great people: Donatello.

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi was an Italian sculptor. He was born in 1386, in Republic of Florence.


Donatello worked with different materials for his sculptors.



Renaissance was Donatello's movement.

He died on December 13, 1466, in Republic of Florence.



Thursday, February 20, 2025

Terpsichore.

Terpsichore (Τερψιχόρη) was one of the Muses (Μοῦσαι) (Moûsai) (Μούσες) (Múses) in Greek myths and legends. She was a goddess of dance and chorus in Ancient Greece. Her name means "of relating to dance.

Zeus and Mnemosyne (Μνημοσύνη) were Terpsichore's parents.

Lyre was her symbol.

Terpsichore had several siblings and consorts.

Linus (Λῖνος) (Linos), Biston (Βίστων), and Parthenope (Παρθενόπη) were her children.



Saturday, January 11, 2025

Danaïdes.

Danaïdes (Δᾰνᾰΐδες), or Danaides and Danaids were daughters of Danaus (Δαναός) (Danaós), king of Argos (Άργος). They had different mothers.

Danaïdes killed their husbands. Only one of them didn't kill her husband.

In Tartarus killers carry a jug to fill a pithos without bottom.

There are arts about these characters.




Sunday, November 3, 2024

Niobe.

Niobe (Νιόβη) (Nióbē) was a daughter of Tantalus (Τάνταλος) (Tántalos) and Dione (Διώνη) (Diṓnē).

She and her husband Amphion (Ἀμφίων) (Amphīōn) had many children.

Niobe met with other gods and goddesses.

There are many myths and legends about this character. Also, there are different arts about Niobe.






Monday, May 6, 2024

Modern architecture.

Modern architecture or modernist architecture was a style between Art Deco and postmodern architectural movements.

Modern was popular in XX century.

In many different cities and towns there are buildings in this style.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/3d-illustration-architecture-building-construction-perspective-2048684678



Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Great people: Andrea Palladio.

Andrea di Pietro della Gondola was an Italian architect. He was born on November 30, 1508, in Republic of Venice.

Palladio created different villas.

He died on August 19, 1580, in Republic of Venice.





Thursday, August 3, 2023

Great people: Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian architecture. Also, he created sculptures. Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born on November 7, 1598, in Naples.

His movement was Baroque style.

Apollo and Daphne (1622-1625), Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (1647-1652), David (1623-1624) are Bernini’s works.

He died on November 29, 1680, in Rome.





Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty six.

Andrea Palladio.


“BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/quote/654683

Sunday, July 2, 2023

Great people: Paolo Veronese.

Paolo Veronese, also known as Paolo Caliari was an Italian painter. He was born in 1528, in Verona.


Veronese had his own movement: Renaissance. Leda and the Swan (1585), Perseus and Andromeda (1576-1578), Adoration of the Magi (1573) are his famous works.



Paolo Veronese died in 1588, in Venice.



Saturday, May 13, 2023

Abstract art.

Abstract art is a type of art. In it used many different figures, such as: oval, line, spots, and flatness.

Abstract art can be seen in drawings, sculptures, and architectures.

This is an art of XX century.

Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/creative-minimalist-hand-painted-abstract-art-1936225114



Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/abstract-art-background-oil-painting-on-329686418



Source of image:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/natural-luxury-abstract-fluid-art-painting-1842746005



Tuesday, May 2, 2023

Famous people and their quotes. Part eighty three.

                                                        Paolo Veronese.


“We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.”

“I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them.”

“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

Source of information:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/26656-Paolo_Veronese

Monday, May 1, 2023

Great people: Tintoretto.

Tintoretto or Jacob Robuti was born in 1518, in Venice, Italy. He was an Italian painter.

Tintoretto’s movement was Renaissance. His famous works: Seige of Asola (1544-45), The Supper at Emmaus (1542-43), Saint George, Saint Luis, and the Princess (1553).

Jacob Robusti died on May 31, 1594, in Venice, Italy.





Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Great people: Titian.

Tiziano Vecelli or Vecellio was born in 1488/90, in Italy. He was a painter of Renaissance.



Titian had his own style of art.



His famous works: Perseus and Andromeda (1554-1556), Venus and Adonis, Danaё (1544-1560s), Diana and Acteon (1556-1559), Diana and Callisto (1556-1559), and etc.

Titian died on August 27, 1576, in Venice.