Amedeo Modigliani was born in Livorno (Leghorn) on 12 July 1884 into a rich merchant family. Versed in literature and art at an early age, Modigliani took his first lessons in drawing and painting between 1898 and 1900 at Guglielmo Micheli’s studio. Modigliani was particularly fond of the Italian Early Renaissance. In 1902 Modigliani shared a studio in Florence with Oscar Ghilia and became a pupil at the free school for drawing from the nude. A year later Modigliani transferred to the Venice Academy, where he spent a great deal of time studying the works of the Old Masters and became familiar with international movements in art.
Modigliani went to Paris in 1906 to study at the private Colarossi Academy. In 1907 he met a young physician, Paul Alexandre, who was the first person to promote his work. Alexandre not only bought paintings and drawings of Modigliani’s; he also helped to arrange the artist’s first commissions. That same year Modigliani showed work at the Salon d’Automne and a year later at the Salon des Indépendents. The few pictures by Modigliani to have survived from that period reveal the influence of the Fauves, Matisse, Toulouse-Lautrec, Picasso and Cézanne. Paul Alexandre introduced Modigliani to the sculptor Constantin Brancusi and Modigliani began to sculpt under his influence but he gave up sculpture in 1914/15 to devote himself to painting. The same salient features are common to both Modigliani’s sculpture and his painting: despite mask-like stylization, a poignant grace and spirituality inform Modigliani’s heads. His lasting fame rests on the portraits of artists he did after 1914.
On the outbreak of the First World War, Modigliani volunteered for service but was exempted for health reasons: two severe attacks of tuberculosis had left him weakened for the rest of his life. Modigliani began to work with the art dealer Paul Guillaume and was also supported by the Polish poet Léopold Zborovski and his wife, doing many portraits of both. Modigliani’s first one-man show was opened by the Galerie Berthe Weill on 3 December 1917 but was closed after only a few hours because his nudes caused a public scandal. Modigliani left Paris while it was under German siege in 1918 and went to Nice with his mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne. There he did some of his best known pictures and some of his few landscapes. A daughter was born to him in Nice. In May 1919 Modigliani returned to Paris and went to England several times, thus ensuring the successful sale of his work there. Early in 1920, however, Modigliani again fell ill of tuberculosis and died in Paris on 24 January.
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Paintings of the great master of painting Paul Gauguin. Paul Gauguin is a post-impressionist artists who was friend of Vincent Van Gogh. His paintings are from exotic places, painting landscapes and people, mostly of them Polynesian. http://www.allpaintings.org/v/Post-Impressionism/Paul+Gauguin/
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It’s like a work of a child? What makes a painting really expensive? I know that the paintings of nature and are really pretty should be expensive. But there are paintings that are really ugly and they look like they were painted by a child but why are they so expensive and valuable?
I’m going to hope you’re trolling here, but I’ll take the risk that you aren’t.
First off, I’ll concede that the art market sometimes makes no sense, and the price of work often does not reflect its true value. But I’ll instead focus on why unpretty paintings not of nature are critically well regarded, rather than highly priced.
Beauty is a difficult notion to pin down, and a very large number of people in the art world aren’t very interested in it to begin with, and among those who are its not definite that their tastes will reflect your own.
Some people see the world as ugly, some people have something ugly inside them to express, some people want to mock traditional notions of beauty. Some people who paint like children do so because they become so frustrated with the drudgery of overly academic teaching that they want to move as far away from it as possible. Some people want to explore things they find fascinating but that are not traditionally beautiful.
As to why this is well regarded: If people find that this ‘unpretty’ piece of work reflects something they feel or think, or even just that it expresses well an interesting thought or feeling, or is looking at something in a new, clever or original way they are likely to respond well to it. If this happens with enough people, including influential critics and collectors and so on, then the work will become valuable.
This is the best I can do. I suspect I find a lot of the paintings you don’t like quite beautiful, or maybe if they aren’t beautiful I empathise with something angry or inquisitive or profound they have to say, so I might not be as much help as I’d like to be.
Hope this helpz.
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Nick San Pedro was born in Las Vegas, NV on November 15, 1978 to a Cuban-Chinese father, and a Spanish-French mother.
As a young child, San Pedro immersed himself in art, spending most of his time drawing. People quickly grew fond of the young artist’s creations. San Pedro was surrounded by all types of music and live stage shows, being raised in Las Vegas. The artist’s father was friends with Siegfried and Roy, which led to Nick having many opportunities to share his works with them throughout his adolescence. Roy was especially encouraging, and his acknowledgment of San Pedro’s talent was all the artist needed to believe that his artwork was truly magical.
San Pedro’s love for music and performance led to the creation of many works of art that would eventually gain attention from musicians coming to perform in the entertainment capitol of the world.
In 2002, while attending college, San Pedro was commissioned to produce artwork for ‘NBC’s Last Call with Carson Daly’. The following year, The artist was hired to paint eight musicians, including Madonna, for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards Pre-Party.
After debuting his artwork in New York City in the prestigious Rainbow Room, San Pedro went on to share many of his paintings with numerous people in the entertainment industry, including: Christina Aguilera, Nelly Furtado, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Elton John, Celine Dion, Carole King, Stevie Nicks, Steven Spielberg, Gwen Stefani, Pink, Carey Hart, Siegfried & Roy, Jerry Seinfeld, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, The Osbournes, Carson Daly, Ludacris, Kathy Griffin, Carmen Electra and Pamela Anderson.
San Pedro is realizing the impact his work is having on the world around him. The artist continually looks for ways to enlighten peoples lives with his creativity. He is proud to lend his time and work to many non-profit organizations that benefit art programs, children’s charities and AIDS programs.
Nick San Pedro is currently producing oil paintings on canvas and looking forward to sharing his body of work abroad. The artist is truly grateful for every experience he’s had to share his artwork, and for all the people who share this journey with him.
E-mail the artist at: nick@nicksanpedro.com
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http://www.vernissage.tv | German painter Gerhard Richter is one of the most important artists of our time. His works are represented in all the important museums and collections. So it’s no surprise that apart from the lenders a lot of major collectors and art professionals such as Sam Keller, Erich Marx, Klaus Staeck, Alfred Paquement, Armin Zweite, Peter Weibel, and Kasper König attended the opening reception of the exhibition “Gerhard Richter. Paintings from Private Collections” at Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden. At the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden, approximately sixty works from important private collections — Böckmann (Berlin), Ströher (Darmstadt) and Frieder Burda, complemented by works in the artist’s own possession — offer a look at more than forty years of painting that reflects on both the history of post-war Germany and on the medium of painting. Impressions from the opening with brief excerpts from the speeches of Frieder Burda and Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestag, January 18, 2008. A catalogue is available: Gerhard Richter. Bilder aus privaten Sammlungen.
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I’m interested in making prints of some famous paintings (particularly those done be Rene Magritte). Poster websites sell them, and I’m wondering how they got the rights to do so. I just want to make some for my own personal use. How and why are they able to access high res files of these works?
Museums (or private collectors) that own the works may license out the rights to produce images. In fact, the copyright on any work of art produced before 1923 has expired, but museums retain the rights to their own photographs/reproductions of a work or may license these.
So, if you’re making prints of a work created before 1923, and they are for personal use only, you don’t have to worry about the rights.
The artist Kurt Solmssen has a show of beautiful landscapes at the George Billis Gallery in New York. In this film he discusses some of these paintings, ones that were worked on, in location, during a snowstorm.
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I do professional work, so I would like to get a professional camera to document my paintings. I was referred to the Canon Rebel XS, but I’m not sure. It seems a bit too pricey. Any suggestions?
It is not a matter of the camera as surely as it is a matter of the correct lighting. Paintings should be flooded with general light shining from 45 degree angles to the plane on the canvas to eliminate or deminish glare and hot spots. Camera flash lighting will simply produce exteme glare. Beyond that (unless youre planning to use the file to make giclee prints) the pixel count of almost any camera will be plenty high for portfolio, gallery and client consideration.
I use a Canon Rebel, too, but mainly for typical photography, not documentation.
All Proceedings will buy new equipment for the production of the “SPRAYCASSO: the art of spraypaint” soon to be on PBS
Did you ever wanted to buy an original work of art from your favorite PBS artist but wasnt able to get a hold of any of them??? this is your chance!!
We need to get updated studio equipment and Artist : Arturo Spraycasso
Has a greed to help by selling some of his paintings – straight from his personal art portfolio.
Prices will vary depending on style and technique – but non the less they will be affordable to every one
Message From the Artist;
Hey Crew,
I want to thank all of you in advanced for helping us get the necessary equipment,
to speed the process of airing the Spraycasso show on PBS. Spraycasso has been dedicated to all the people who at one point of their life wanted to be an artist and thought they couldnt.
When i was younger i was told Art wasn’t a real job and yet Im lucky enough that every day i get letters from fans, telling that because of the spraycasso show they are now painting for a living or for extra income!
i hope these paintings Im putting up for sale serve as a reminder to all of us that with a little effort, persistence and imagination dreams can come true!
we’ve come a long way together… i hope you continue to watch and enjoy the show.
sincerely,
A.Spraycasso
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