Category 131

Contemporary & Post Modernism out of art history and into the present

Takashi Murakami Takashi Murakami was born in 1962. Murakami’s father was a taxi driver, and his mother was a homemaker. His mother, who studied needlepoint and designed textiles, had a tremendous influence on Murakami’s interest in the arts. During Murakami’s… Continue Reading →

Expressionism, Fauvism, & Early 20th Century

Gustav Klimt  Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body,… Continue Reading →

Realism, Pre-Impressionism, & Pre-Raphaelites

Ilya Yefimovich Repin  Ilya Yefimovich Repin is a Russian-Ukrainian artist and the author of hundreds of canvases written in realism. He was born in the village where the military lived. His father, Ilya Yefimovich, was a soldier. His mother was an intelligent… Continue Reading →

High Renaissance & Mannerism

Hieronymus Bosch Hieronymus Bosch is one of the famous and revolutionary artists of the High Renaissance and was well known and highly appreciated during his lifetime and in the 16th century. His work also was collected by Philip II of… Continue Reading →

Late Gotic-Early Renaissance

Piero della Francesca (c. 1420–1492) Piero della Francesca is one of the significant artists of the Early Renaissance period. He focused on solid figures, and luminous colour in his paintings and frescoes also showed all his passion for mathematics through… Continue Reading →

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