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Self Portrait, oil on canvas, 1652. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.The first for several years. As in the drawing of the same year, Rembrandt wears his working clothes, except perhaps for his hat, which draws on historical styles and earlier portraits.
Figure drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures, using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, anatomically correct renderings to loose and expressive sketches.
The drawing is related to the painting W23 : Three Scribes: c. 1628-1629: Pen, brush: 22.6 x 17.6 cm: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: The drawing is related to the painting W23 : Old Man with Outspread Arms: c. 1628-1629?? Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden: The drawing is related to the etching B095 : Study for Judas Returning the Thirty Pieces of Silver: c ...
Van Gogh's drawing of 87 Hackford Road. In July 1869, Van Gogh's uncle, “Cent” Van Gogh, helped him obtain a position with the art dealer Goupil & Cie in The Hague.After his training, in June 1873, Goupil transferred him to London, where he lodged at 87 Hackford Road, Brixton, [1] and worked at Messrs. Goupil & Co., 17 Southampton Street. [2]
Work (1852–1865) is a painting by Ford Madox Brown that is generally considered to be his most important achievement.It exists in two versions. The painting attempts to portray, both literally and analytically, the totality of the Victorian social system and the transition from a rural to an urban economy.
In the 18th century, small paintings of working people remained popular, mostly drawing on the Dutch tradition and featuring women. Much art depicting ordinary people, especially in the form of prints, was comic and moralistic, but the mere poverty of the subjects seems relatively rarely to have been part of the moral message. From the mid-19th ...
Classical Realism is characterized by love for the visible world and the great traditions of Western art, including Classicism, Realism and Impressionism.The movement's aesthetic is classical in that it exhibits a preference for order, beauty, harmony and completeness; it is realist because its primary subject matter comes from the representation of nature based on the artist's observation. [5]
The One-eyed Man is a portrait of a patient at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy. Van Gogh used sweeping brushstrokes in the painting made with green in the background, the man's coat and touches in his face. In the hospital Van Gogh found that in the presence of other patients he became more calm about his mental state.