"Art"

Your guide to being an art connoisseur

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10/03/2021

The purpose of blog when it was founded was to give its followers a daily dose of fine paintings accompanied with fitting quotes. However, I wish to make some progress in terms of the utility of this blog by broadening its scope. Therefore, on the 10th day of third month of the year 2021 in the Georgian calendar the following changes are made to the blog Vedart2020. It is to be noted the word ‘Art’ (artwork) extends to all forms of art including but not limited to paintings, articles of clothing, art installations, sculpture, etc.

Credo: To appreciate the aesthetics of various artworks. To engage and encourage discussion on philosophy of art. To popularize sources of art education. To share the happenings in art world by covering popular art events around the world.

Submissions: Works relating to art and discussions on art through essays, research papers will be accepted for posting. Due credit will be given to original content creator and the copyright will be solely owned by the creator only.

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The first official painted portrait of King Charles III since his coronation.

Artist: Jonathan Yeo

Unveiled in May 2024.

Yeo says the butterfly by the King's shoulder symbolises "the beauty of nature and highlights the [King's] environmental causes"

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The Artist's Sister, Melanie by Egon Schiele (1908)

Egon Schiele, the controversial Austrian 🇦🇹 painter, displayed incestuous tendencies towards his younger sister Gertrude (who was known as Gerti), and his father, well aware of Egon's behaviour, was once forced to break down the door of a locked room that Egon and Gerti were in to see what they were doing (only to discover them developing film).

He is famous, or some would argue infamous, for the disturbed intensity, twisted bodies and raw sexuality he depicted in his paintings, many of which are self-portraits.

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Glad to see Renaissance art form in today's mainstream media. This is the opening credits of second season of HBO's limited anthology 'The White Lotus'.

The work is titled Renaissance. The music is composed by composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer. While it seems at first glance that these are legitimate pieces of Roman art, they were actually designed by the creative team Katrina Crawford and Mark Bashore, with the help of illustrator Lezio Lopes. While images of actual historical paintings from the Villa Tasca in Palermo, Sicily were used, the final design adds latent details. Even though the title cards last under two minutes, they tell a complete narrative about a haughty society that collapses under the weight of its indulgences.

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10/11/2022

The cover art of magazines like New Yorker & Vanity Fair has always fascinated me. So, I started exploring the artists who design these covers & came across Malika Favre’s work. I was instantly in awe of her style and I hope you all will have a similar experience.

Malika Favre is a French illustrator and graphic artist based in Barcelona. Her style of works could be characterized by pure minimalism within Pop art and Op art, where it sometimes described as 'Pop Art meets Op Art'. She combines simple illustrations with geometric patterns and has developed a unique style of illustration by using positive and negative space and colours, elegant layouts, especially of the female body and its curves. Get a glimpse of her work on her website.

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23-03-2022

'Salvador Dali ashtray for Air India (1967)'

Salvador Dali designed a surrealist ashtray for Air India in 1967 and asked for an elephant as payment, Air India flew a two-year-old elephant from Bangalore (India), accompanied by a mahout (keeper), to Geneva. These limited edition ash trays were gifted to Air India's first class travelers.

From the booklet that accompanied it:

"The ashtray is composed of a shell-shaped center with a serpent twined around its perimeter. It is supported by two surrealist elephant-heads and a swan. These supports are based on Dali´s double-image effect. The master explains: "The reflection of an elephant´s head looks like a swan and the reflection of a swan appears to be an elephant. This is what I have done for the ashtray. The swan up-side-down becomes an elephant´s head and the elephant inverted - a swan."

The ashtray is approximately 4" x 3" across and 2 1/2" tall. Ashtray is mostly unglazed porcelain with a glazed serpent around the lip of the ashtray.

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16-03-2022

‘The Horse Fair’ by Rosa Bonheur (1855)

Style- Realism

Nationality- French

Location- MET museum

Rosa Bonheur was master of painting animals. Almost all of her paintings feature animals: cows, tiger, lion, horse, etc. Check out her other paintings here.

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Now I know what to call you all 😃

However I don’t mean to ignore the aficionados of our community.

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16-01-2022

'Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds' (ca. 1825), by John Constable

John Constable was not only one of England's greatest landscape painters, he also transformed the entire genre. The realism of Constable's work was innovative for its time, and it would go on to influence both modern artists and, later in the 19th century, the Impressionists. The work we see here is one of several full-scale studies completed prior to a final painting of Salisbury Cathedral. The work was commissioned by that church's bishop, and Constable's friend, John Fisher, who requested that Constable rework the sky in the artwork's early versions. It wasn't unusual for commissioned paintings to go through a number of revisions before reaching their final form, depending on the client's requests. 'Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds' by John Constable is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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10-01-2022

‘Woman with a hat’ by Henri Matisse (1905)

Style - Fauvism

“Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquillity, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, overrefinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life full of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.” ~ An excerpt from ‘Death in Venice’ by Thomas Mann (Literature Nobel laureate)

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27-11-2021

'Girl with a Mandolin' (Portrait of Fanny Tellier) by Pablo Picasso

Genre: Cubism

Location: Museum of Modern Art in New York

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12/10/2021

'Snap the Whip' by Winslow Homer (1872)

Style: Realism

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

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20/09/2021

'Two Men Contemplating the Moon' by Caspar David Friedrich (1825)

Style: Romanticism

Location: Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany, Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), New York City, NY, US

The two men contemplating the sinking moon have been identified as Friedrich himself, on the right, and his talented young colleague August Heinrich (1794–1822). The mood of pious contemplation relates to fascination with the moon as expressed in contemporary poetry, literature, philosophy, and music. Both figures are seen from the back so that the viewer can participate in their communion with nature, which the Romantics saw as a manifestation of the Sublime. Although the landscape is imaginary, it is based on studies after nature that Friedrich had made in various regions at different times. Both men wear Old German dress, which had been adopted in 1815 by radical students as an expression of opposition to the ultraconservative policies then being enforced in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars. The staunchly patriotic Friedrich deliberately ignored the 1819 royal decree forbidding this practice and depicted figures in traditional costume until his death.

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11-09-2021

’Le Déséspéré’ (The Desperate Man) by Gustav Courbet

Style- Romanticism

Genre- Self-Portrait

I gain strength from my knowledge that in any given circumstances most men are the same; it is only the circumstances that are so various. There are other men who want to paint as I do, and in front of our pages or easels, our experiences are common to each of us. There are many brotherhoods without name. And if I had to give a single piece of advice to a young painter, I would remind him of this. Then it would not seem to him so important or tragic or embittering that most of those who talk about art are entirely ignorant.

John Berger, A Painter of Our Time: A Novel

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08-07-2021

'The Flower Painting' by Rachel Ruysch (c.1680)

There are at least 5 bugs in this painting! Can't spot em'? Watch this.

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15-06-2021

Today’s birthday 🎂

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31-05-2021

‘Woman sitting near a window’ by Pablo Picasso (1932)

Worth: $103 million (2021)

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child” ~Picasso

Picasso’s view on modern art.