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The Last Supper Dear Sarah, I know you missed class last week, but I would love to explain one of the important pieces of art we went over, The Last Supper, painted from 1495 to 1498. That day, we went over the history that led up to period of Modern Art. As Leonardo dad Vinci…

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15th in 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He was born out of wedlock and taken from his peasant mother at the age of five years old. His father was Pierre dad Vinci, who was a legal specialist and married into a wealthy family soon after. He was sent to…

You will say that I am old and mad, but I answer that there is no better way of keeping sane and free from anxiety than by being mad. AD Michelangelo been less poetic and more explicit in his language, he might have said there is nothing so-conducive to mental and physical wholeness as saturation…

The Renaissance was a European phenomenon in the world of art and letters, which was found operative at the beginning of the 16th century all over Europe. It was a sort of the revival of learning-a New Learning-and a renewed interest in art and letters. It had a venerable attachment to the golden literary and…

The first of the Grosvenor Gallery’s winter exhibitions was spectacular. Drawings by the Old Masters, and Water-colour Drawings by Deceased Artists of the British School, which opened at the very beginning of 1878, brought together a staggering 1,238 exhibits from the greatest collections in the country, including the Royal Collection and those of John Malcolm…

When it comes to world-famous paintings, Leonardo Dad Vine’s “Last Supper” is always on the top of the list. What is it that, even now, 500 years after its creation in 1498, makes “Last Supper” such a mysterious and conspiracy-laden painting? First, there is a level of mystery surrounding its creator, Leonardo Dad Vinci. Not…

Salvador Dali went to the art school Academia De San Fernando in Spain, and rather than taking it seriously, he dressed oddly and preferred to daydream during classes. He was expelled. The rise of Franco in Spain led to Dalais expulsion from the Surrealist movement, but that did not prevent him from painting. He later…

Warhol created his pieces by discovering what was popular, what stood out in modern art, and also something with standard American values. Warhol also took everyday objects and turned them into pop art sensations. He realized that the majority of the United States went food shopping and decided to create a line of supermarket products….

The Art of Frida Kahlo: Realist and Overwhelming The autobiographical movie “Friday” directed by Julie Tomato and release in October, 2002. It is a realistic portrait of the life of Mexican painter Friday Kohl and her life’s bitterness, her political believes, and the tormented relationship with her painter husband, Diego Riviera. As a result the…

Critical Analysis This is an oil on canvas painting by Friday Kohl called Cropped Hair, made in 1940 at a size of coxcomb. It is a self- portrait of her with a scissor in one hand and her hair creeping everywhere on the floor. As you can see in the painting, the fore ground busy…