ARTIST'S EXPRESSION
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Art is the signature of civilizations.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Art is literacy of the heart.
Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.
Art is the Queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
Art is the child of imagination and gives life.
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.
Art #41: The Storm of the Sea of Galilee (Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn) 1633
Art #18: Girl with a Pearl Earing (Johannes Vermeer)
This is a masterpiece painting of Johannes Vermeer who is a famous Dutch painter. This pain is known of its name Girl with a Pearl Earing. This painting can be seen at the Mauritshuis gallery in the Hague. This painting is also referred as "The Mona Lisa of the North" or "The Dutch Mona Lisa".
Art #17: Four-Sided Pyramid (Sol LeWitt)
The Four-Sided Pyramid is an artistic masterpiece of Sol LeWitt, who is an American artist that was known for his creative in the area of Conceptual art and Minimalism. This Pyramid can be found at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.
Art #14: Garçon à la pipe (Pablo Picasso)
Garçon à la Pipe, was painted by a famous painter Pablo Picasso. This painting was painted at around 1905. Picasso that time was at the age of 24. Picasso settled soon after at the Montmartre section of Paris, France. This painting is a product of an oil on canvas painting that depicts a Parisian boy holding a pipe and it is wearing a garland or wreath of flowers.
Art #11: Blood and Earth (Rolf Aamot) - Photography
Blood and Earth, electronic painting is an expressive art of photography done by a famous photographer Rolf Aamot (born in Bergen September 28, 1934). He is a Norwegian painter, film director, photographer and tonal-image composer. Since the 1950s Aamot has been a photographer in the area of electronic painting, exploring the emerging technology as it combines with the traditional arts of painting, music, film, theater, and ballet.
Art #3: The Lady of Shalott (John William Waterhouse)
The Lady of Shalott was painted by an English painter John William Waterhouse. It is a representation scene from Lord Alfred Tennysonn's 1832 Poem which of the same name. This painting was made of an 1888 old oil-on-canvas.
Art #1: The Battle of Aboukir
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