[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P68. The painting "The persistence of Memory", by artist Salvador Dalí, Spain.
13-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Persistence of Memory (Catalan: La persistència de la memòria) is a 1931 painting by artist Salvador Dalí, and one of his most recognizable works. First shown at the Julien Levy Gallery in 1932, since 1934 the painting has been in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City, which received it from an anonymous donor. It is widely recognized and frequently referenced in popular culture, and sometimes referred to by more descriptive (though incorrect) titles, such as "Melting Clocks", "The Soft Watches" or "The Melting Watches".
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P67. The painting "Man in a red turban" by painter Jan Van Eyck, Netherland.
12-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Portrait of a Man (Self Portrait) (also Portrait of a Man in a Turban or Portrait of a Man in a Red Turban) is an oil painting by the Early Netherlandish painter Jan van Eyck, from 1433. The inscription at the top of the panel, Als Ich Can (intended as "as I/Eyck can") was a common autograph for van Eyck, but here is unusually large and prominent. This fact, along with the man's unusually direct and confrontational gaze, have been taken as an indication that the work is a self-portrait.
(Worldkings) Top 100 famous artworks in the World - P65. The painting "The Two Fridas" by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.
10-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Two Fridas (Las dos Fridas in Spanish) is an oil painting by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The painting was the first large-scale work done by Kahlo and is considered one of her most notable paintings. It is a double self-portrait, depicting two versions of Kahlo seated together. One is wearing a white European-style Victorian dress while the other is wearing a traditional Tehuana dress. The painting was created in 1939, the same year that Kahlo divorced Diego Rivera, although they remarried a year later.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World - P74. The oil painting "Woman with a Hat" by artist Henri Matisse, France.
08-02-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Woman with a Hat (La femme au chapeau) is a painting by Henri Matisse. An oil on canvas, it depicts Matisse's wife, Amelie. It was painted in 1905 and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne during the fall of the same year, along with works by André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck and several other artists known as "Fauves".
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P66. The painting "Rue de Paris, temps de pluie" by artist Gustave Caillebotte, France.
30-01-2019
(Worldkings.org) - Rue de Paris, temps de pluie is an oil painting on a canvas frame by the French painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), made in 1877. It is kept at the Art Institute of Chicago, in the United States.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P64. Portrait Bust of a flavian woman, Italy
29-01-2019
(Worldkings.org) - A common symbol of Roman art is the bodiless head called a bust. The marble sculpture called A Young Flavian Woman, is a sculpture of a woman’s head. It is a very detailed sculpture, the marble makes the skin look extremely smooth.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P63. The painting "The Pesaro Madonna" by master Titian, Italy.
28-01-2019
(Worldkings.org - Aseanrecords.world) - The Pesaro Madonna (Italian: Pala Pesaro) (better known as the Madonna di Ca' Pesaro) is a painting by the late Italian Renaissance master Titian, commissioned by Jacopo Pesaro, whose family acquired in 1518 the chapel in the Frari Basilica in Venice for which the work was painted, and where it remains today. Jacopo was Bishop of Paphos, in Cyprus, and had been named commander of the papal fleet by the Borgia pope, Alexander VI. This painting recalls one of Titian's earliest paintings Jacopo Pesaro being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter, c. 1510-11
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P62. The painting "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" by artist Hokusai, Japan.
27-01-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa-oki nami ura, "Under a wave off Kanagawa") "かながわ-おき なみ うら", also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P61. The painting "Portrait of a woman" by artist Rogier Van Der Weyden, Netherlands.
26-01-2019
(Worldkings.org)- Portrait of a Lady (or Portrait of a Woman) is a small oil-on-oak panel painting executed around 1460 by the Netherlandish painter Rogier van der Weyden.
[WORLDKINGS] Top 100 famous Artworks in the World – P60. The painting "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David, France.
25-01-2019
(Worldkings.org) - The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting by Jacques-Louis David of the murdered French revolutionary leader Jean-Paul Marat. It is one of the most famous images of the French Revolution.
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