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  2. Artistic inspiration - Wikipedia

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    In Greek thought, inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or furor poeticus, the divine frenzy or poetic madness. The artist would be transported beyond their own mind and given the gods' or goddesses own thoughts to embody. Inspiration is prior to consciousness and outside of skill (ingenium in Latin). Technique and ...

  3. Muse (person) - Wikipedia

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    Human muses are woven throughout history. In modern times, specific people are called muses; as a rule, these are close friends and sometimes lovers or spouses, who inspire or affect the works of an artist due to their disposition, charisma, wisdom, sophistication, eroticism, intimate friendship, or other traits.

  4. Maurizio Anzeri - Wikipedia

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    In 2005 Anzeri held his final Master in Fine Arts Degree show at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. After graduating he took part in several group exhibitions across Europe including the Museo CAMEC for the Biennale Europea Arti Visive in LaSpezia in Italy [26] Kunsthalle at the Locarno Film Festival in Locarno, Switzerland, [27] Drifting Clouds at the Galleria IMAGE Furini, Arezzo Italy ...

  5. Marcel Duchamp - Wikipedia

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    The art of painter and engraver Émile Frédéric Nicolle, his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and make music together. Of Eugene and Lucie Duchamp's seven children, one died as an infant and four became successful artists. Marcel Duchamp was the brother of:

  6. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (/ ˈ æ ŋ ɡ r ə / ANG-grə; French: [ʒɑ̃ oɡyst dɔminik ɛ̃ɡʁ]; 29 August 1780 – 14 January 1867) was a French Neoclassical painter.Ingres was profoundly influenced by past artistic traditions and aspired to become the guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style.

  7. Cubism - Wikipedia

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    Pablo Picasso, 1910, Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), oil on canvas, 100.3 × 73.6 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun in Paris that revolutionized painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature, and architecture.

  8. Gustave Courbet - Wikipedia

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    [12] Instead, he maintained that the only possible source for living art is the artist's own experience. [12] He and Jean-François Millet would find inspiration painting the life of peasants and workers. [13] Courbet painted figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in ...

  9. Themes in Italian Renaissance painting - Wikipedia

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    Michelangelos mastery of complex figure composition, as in his The Entombment was to inspire many artists for centuries. In this panel painting the figure of Christ, though vertical, is slumped and a dead weight at the centre of the picture, while those who try to carry the body lean outwards to support it.