Pablo Picasso paintings are so famous today, that he often serves as a synonym for the best artist. He was definitely a rare genius, and one of the most important figures in the development of the 20th century art. Due to his daring and innovative artistic endeavors, this Spaniard rose to world fame before the […]
Surrealism was a modern idea started in the late 1910s as a literary movement. Early Surrealists were preoccupied with exploration of a new way of expression called – automatism, or automatic writing. This type of writing was conceived upon the new psychoanalytical ideas of Freud, and it was supposed to release the subconscious. 1924 is […]
Vincent van Gogh is today considered one of the most brilliant artists in history. It is widely known that he had a difficult and sad life, struggling to survive and trying to overcome his fragile mental state, but despite the fact that he was deeply troubled, he succeeded to produce around 900 paintings during his […]
René Magritte was born at the very end of 19th century in Lessines, Belgium. He displayed great talent and interest in the arts at an early age, and in 1916 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of the Fine Arts in Brussels. His first paintings were largely influenced by impressionism, futurism and figurative cubism, with […]
Abstract art is a generic term that describes artistic creations composed without using visual references from the surrounding world. It is considered to be the opposition of realism. Abstract art appears as semi-abstraction or pure abstraction form. Semi-abstract artwork does contain some shapes of a person or an object, but stylized and reduced; while pure […]