The book of this very talented, hardworking and successful painter was a huge inspiration for me. Titian Vecellia, called Titian, was one of the great artists during his lifetime and influenced the form of Renaissance painting and the following styles. He was born in Pieva di Cadore in the Italian Dolomites and at the age of 9 his parents sent...
What is a mandala? Mandala comes from ancient Indian Sanskrit, one of the oldest ancient languages. It means circle, arc, magic arc or healing circle. The mandala represents the center. Mandala is a movement, it is a wheel of life, an image of the universe, still emerging from one center and at the same time converging from diversity to one...
One of my favorite artists is the amazing realistic painter Adriane Coorte. He was a Dutch painter from the 17th century. Coorte often painted on paper glued to a wooden panel. He painted small and undemanding still life. In his first still lifes, Coorte chose "vanitas", which expresses the transience of life. He later focused more on the beauty of...
Realism comes from the Latin "realis", which means factual and real. It originated in the second half of the 19th century. Realism is a never-ending art and one of the artistic directions that captures a detailed representation of the object as we see it. Realism emerged as a conscious direction in 1955 and the first pioneer was the painter Gustave...
