Painting

Famous Swiss Artists
Swiss artist and illustrator Albert Anker became the “national painter” of Switzerland for his endearing depictions of life in a Swiss village in the 19th century. He took drawing lessons with painter Louis Wallinger and later attended the Gymnasium Kirchenfeld in Bern. At the University of Halle in Germany, the artist was inspired by art collections and decided to pursue a career in art. In Paris, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. His artworks include a series of pieces with Biblical and historical themes.
By Rasma Raisters6 months ago in Art
The Day I Almost Gave Up Writing
How one moment of doubt became the turning point in my creative journey --- I still remember the exact day I almost gave up writing.
By Itz stories 6 months ago in Art
My First Impression of Famous Impressionist Painters
The letter "i" stands for "I'm impressed." The term “impressionism” was first used in 1874, and its initial usage was not very complimentary. A critic was making a sarcastic remark about one of Monet's landscape paintings. Not allowing an unfavorable judgment to cramp his style, Claude Monet (1840 – 1926), working with Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919), developed the technique of broken-color painting. These two artists are recognized as the founders of the art form known as Impressionism.
By Treathyl Fox (aka cmoneyspinner)6 months ago in Art
Famous Austrian Artists
Austrian artist Friedrich von Amerling was one of the most important Austrian painters. He attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. He was inspired by portrait painter Sir Thomas Lawrence and became renowned for his portraits of the aristocracy and courtly life. Among his best-known artworks is Lost in Dreams, featuring a young girl lost in her thoughts, which demonstrates the artist’s ability to capture the subject’s emotions and inner world.
By Rasma Raisters6 months ago in Art
Echoes in Color
In Lahore, where the call to prayer weaves through the morning air and rickshaws weave through traffic like stubborn thoughts, lived a boy named Rehan. He was seventeen, soft-spoken, and carried the quiet intensity of someone who sees more than they say. His hands were always stained—blues under the nails, ochre on his wrists, charcoal smudged at the edge of his palm. Paint wasn’t just something he used; it was something he lived with, like breath.
By meerjanan6 months ago in Art
The Scream by Edvard Munch is one of my favourite paintings
The Scream by Edvard Munch is another one of my favourite paintings that is alongside of that of Nighthawks. I have a shirt with The Scream 😱 by Edvard Munch. This painting is absolutely brilliant and amazing. It is a contradiction in a way warm colours but dark and deep subject matter.
By Rikki La Rouge 6 months ago in Art
Nighthawks Urban isolation
Nighthawks by Edward Hopper in 1942 is truly one of my favourite paintings of all time. My interpretation of this iconic painting is accurate. Another interpretation of my own is that these people are lost souls and Nighthawks an seemingly unassuming diner is actually purgatory. This painting gives me chills because it’s about isolation in an urban area or rural area you can be isolated anywhere. This artistic triumph holds relevance in today’s world due to our cell phones and social media. Nighthawks is a work of fine art and there is no question about that and Edward Hopper created a masterpiece.
By Rikki La Rouge 6 months ago in Art
Colors of Her Silence
Meher was never loud. Not in voice, not in presence. As a child, while others ran and laughed, she sat with a pencil and paper, tracing the world around her—the curve of a leaf, the shadow on a wall, the way light fell through the window at different times of day. Words never came easily, but lines did. Colors, too.
By meerjanan6 months ago in Art
Famous Belgian Artists
Flemish artist Jan Brueghel the Elder was known for his collaborations with Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens. His artwork followed various genres, among them historic paintings, still lifes, and landscapes. The artist was an innovator and invented new painting types such as flower garlands and paradise landscapes. As court painter to the Archduke and Duchess Albrecht and Isabella, he earned nicknames like "Velvet" Brueghel and "Paradise" Brueghel for his mastery in rendering fabrics and landscapes.
By Rasma Raisters6 months ago in Art
The Accidental Artist
Vikram Sharma had never considered himself creative. Not really. Sure, he once tried making samosas from scratch and nearly set off the smoke alarm, but that was more chaos than artistry. At forty, he worked at a bank, wore the same shade of blue shirt every Monday, and found excitement in perfectly aligned sticky notes.
By meerjanan6 months ago in Art
Ca$imuz art gallery
another dream of mine that I made come true, i created my own art gallery that being the Casimuz art gallery. I am proud of all of my illustrations and my works and let’s see some of my favorite illustrations of my favorite singers are of Chirino, Selena, Prince, Boy George, and to me all of my illustrations that I ever did became gallery illustrations another artistic pictures that I had done through the years and that I had that I felt would be good to be a part of my art gallery that you now see here. I am I put my heart and soul and everything I do and this art gallery because I know one of my children.
By Ca$imuz6 months ago in Art
The Librarian & the Lost Masterpiece
It started, as great discoveries often do, in a place that most people overlook. The town library had been there for over a century—a tall, square building with weathered stone steps and windows that had seen more seasons than most of its patrons. The kind of place where the floors creak as though they’re telling secrets, and the scent of old paper clings to your sweater when you leave. For years, the library had been more a refuge for retirees and the occasional student than a hive of discovery. That is, until Ms. Clara Merriweather came along.
By Emad Iqbal6 months ago in Art