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Michelangelo was one of the most outstanding representatives of Italian Renaissance.
His life just experienced Italian Renaissance from flourish to decline. Michelangelo became famous worldwide for the strength and momentum of his works. The characters under his pen were full of boundless energy and tension, wiggly waist, strong muscle; all these fully demonstrated his remarkable ability in expressing aspects of human life and human feeling with human body. He had a deep understanding of human body structure and can express freely. In his works, a lot of the human body were completed through dictation and memory, but not drew face painted model. The suffering of the motherland and fortunate of individual remarked his art with tragic heroism, his mural “The Creation” and “the end of the trial” as well as the sculpture “David” ,”Moses” and “struggling Slaves”, and so on, just showed pain, unfortunate and indomitable spirit. In Michelangelo’s works of traditional religious subject, most of them expressed the spirit of humanism, human’s virtue but less religious flavor. He is a prolific and talented artist. As a painter, sculptor, architect and poet, his accomplishments were varied. Worked hard through whole life and with strong character, he spent up to 4 years to engage in high-altitude operations. With his body supine, he finished the giant Zenith painting “The Creation” with an area of 800 square meters. When he was 66 years old, he completed the giant 200 square meters frescoes “the end of the trial”. The former was the representative of the works of Michelangelo and the most important work in Renaissance paintings, while the later one was referred as “the Encyclopedia of the human body.” Michelangelo with his magnificent art, Michelangelo had a great impact on the Baroque style. He was one of the greatest art painters and sculptors in the history.

Michelangelo ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Vincent Van Gogh was born in Zunert, Brabant, a province in South Holland in 1853. He had been as unsuccessful painting merchant and missionary. Most of his short lifetime, his profession was a “loafer”. Only his cousin Tio understood and supported him, and provided him life and creation expense. By this Van Gogh had a living as a “parasite” till he suicide. Van Gogh had a really hard life. He always had to struggle with hunger. The women he loved all refused him. He gave up all his joy to help those poor miners when he preaching in a mining area，what he got was the reassignment from church. After he found that his really occupation should be a painter, he started keeping art creation. But the painting that he drew with whole heart couldn’t receive acceptance from people, he couldn’t fulfill his wish that making a living on painting. Because of his strange behavior, he was regarded as a mad man.
He was one of the outstanding artists in the end of the 19 century, and was the reprehensive of the Western art “the post- impressionism”. Van Gogh’s works have grand magnificent, their jumping line, the bulge color blocks, published individuality; all these were expressing painter’s intense subjective feeling, and gave a great impact on the later generations. However, the life of Van Gogh suffered repeated setbacks and hardships, and as a result of schizophrenia he suicide when he was as young as 37 years old. In 1934, Owen Stone who were 26-year-old was shock by Van Gogh’s paintings, then he followed the traces of Van Gogh’s live by visiting nearly the whole Europe. He got a lot of first-hand true information about Van Gogh from those people who still alive and knew Van Gogh, and he also read the valuable letters that Van Gogh wrote to his cousin for reference. After four drafts, Owen firstly introduced this unknown painter to the world.
The works faithfully showed Van Gogh’s extraordinary talent, frustrated life and his unique artistic and spiritual feelings. Even now he had left the world; today his works were still fine among the same style works and had strong readability and study value.

Vincent Van Gogh ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was the most famous artist, sculptor, architect, engineer, scientist, Master of Science, literature and art theorists, philosophers, Poets, musicians, and inventors in the period of Italian Renaissance. He was born in Vinci town in the suburb of Florence, and died in France. His father was a lawyer and notary public and his mother was a housewife. He came to Florence when he was 15 and learned in Verrocchio’s workshop. In 1472 he entered the painter guild, and in the mid-70 his personal style had become mature. During 1482 – 1499 he were painting in Milan, offered service for Duke of Milan, and he had a wide range of artistic and scientific activities, in which “Madonna of the Rocks” was his most famous representative during this period. He was a genius, on the one hand he enthused on artistic creation and theoretical research on how to use three-dimensional shapes and lines to show the physiques; on the other hand, he also studied the natural sciences.
Mural “The Last Supper”, the altar painting “Madonna of the Rocks” and the portrait “Mona Lisa” are the three masterpieces of his life. The three works are the rarities among world art treasures that Da Vinci left.
What most people are familiar with Da Vinci is his super high painting art, his most famous works include: “Mona Lisa”, “The Last Supper”, “Madonna of the Rocks”, “The Virgin and Child with St. Anne”.

Genius Da Vinci ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Paul Cezanne（1839-1906) was an important representative of post-Impressionist who was regarded as “father of new art” since the end of 19th century, and as a pioneer of modern art, western modern artists called him “father of modern art” or “father of modern painting”. We can see the improvement that Cezanne made to art innovation. Cezanne was born in a rich merchant and banker family in south France Alx. His father wanted him to learn law, but he insisted in learning drawing. He had not enrolled by Paris Art Constitution, which meant that he learned drawing by himself. At first, he got contact with some expressionists and also attend expressionism art exhibition, but due to his personal extensive drawing and solid three-dimensional contouring, he separated with other expressionism quickly. He got a lot of heritage after the death of his father. This enabled him to return to his hometown in south France to live in seclusion for a long time, and tried to find out one path of art that was quite different from the impressionist school. The difference between Cezanne and expressionists was that “What Magnet pursues is real effect and becomes the ’slaves’ of light. Besides light, Cezanne focuses more on the actual shapes of surface and object. What Monet pursues is the instantaneous impression and temporary vision, while Cezanne pursues the solid physique and eternal vision.” Therefore he didn’t pay much attention to the performance of light, and he thought that “as to drawing the light does not exist essentially.” Cezanne usually went out for painting the scenery sketch in cloudy days, and spent most of his time at home drawing the still objects. His pursuit and performance to the feeling of volume, which had opened a lot of train of thought for “the cubism”. His unique subjective sense was greatly different from most painters who emphasized on objective sense. In more than half of Cezanne’s life, his paintings were demoted or disavowed by other people, but his couldn’t waver his rigid pursue of artistic style. His strong structure in still life, portrait, and scenery has attracted the younger generation. In 1895, painting merchant Vola held a great exhibition for him which received general reception. In 1904, he won the decisive victory in the autumn Sharon, and his fame as “father of the modern art” has established initially. But two years later, he left the world unfortunately.

“Father of New Art” Cezanne ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Post-Impressionism was a western school of painting that original from the Impressionism. At the end of nineteenth century, many artists that had been encouraged by the Impressionism started against Impressionism, for they were not just satisfied with etching that pursuing light color unilaterally. They emphasized that artist’s work should express self-feelings and subjective emotion, then they tried to put the color and physical expressive factors into use, so Impressionism came into birth.
Post-impressionism developed formalism art into limitation, almost regardless of any theme and content.
In performing art, post-Impressionism emphasized more on making relationship, and they believed that art images should be different from objects, and improve objects with author’s subjective feelings to show “the objective that had been subjected”. While they respected the achievements of Impressionism light color, not pursuing of outside light unilaterally, they focused on performing matter’s materiality, stability and internal structure. Post-impressionistic paintings have a great impact on the development of various schools of modern art, and led to the birth of structuralism directly.
Cezanne’s paintings were even disregard of perspective and human anatomy, but with a variety of colors to pile up a lot of forms of specious; on the contrary, divinity thought that color was a gradual transition, so they used a lot of points to pile, even if a picture of blue sky they also used a variety of points of blue color to accumulate. The post-impressionistic oil painting played a role of foundation for the modern oil painting. Vincent Van Gogh was also one of the representatives of the post-impressionist.
Representatives: Vincent Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Suele.

Post-Impressionism in oil painting ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Monet was the initiator, leader and advocate of impressionism painting movement.
Monet became famous after he exhibited ‘Expression: Sunrise’ in 1874, and critics started a commentary with the title ‘expressionists’ exhibition’ towards this movement. In 1888, critic Fi Fineon wrote:’ the word Impressionism was made for him, this term is the most suitable for him than any others. ‘
When Monet was 5, his family moved to St. Adres which near Le Havre. He learned drawing from a local artist when he was 15. His artistic life started after he met E Bude. He also started painting at outdoor places at that time. He first visited Pairs in 1859-1860, where Barbizon painter Daubigny and Tevaren gave him a deep impact. Around before or after 1872 he was interested in the Japanese print, and its decorativeness and flatness has a great impact on modern French painting.
1865-1870 was the early period of Monet’s creation life. Before this time he had already used special impressionism brushwork to paint, such as ‘picnic’ (1865 -1866) and ‘St, Adeless’s balcony’. Monet’s main purpose was to explore the method of perform nature, record momentary feeling, impression and the things that were full of vitality and movement. He set objects as planer color images to paint, and did not pay much attention to their weight and size. In 1868, together with Renoir and Bourges Val, they created the first group of Impressionism works, which used strong brushwork to describe outdoor light, movement and momentary feeling.
In the beginning of 1970s he went to London and also in Netherlands he painted canal, ships, windmills, and finish the painting ‘ Impression: Sunrise” in Le Havre, then he lived in Argenteuil after returning home, this period was also the peak of impressionism movement. Between 1872 and 1875, the works that created by Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro were the most attractive works of impressionism. In 1883 Monet settled in Giverny till his death. He concentrated on finishing a series of painting after 90s, such as: “Topol” (1890-1891), “cock” (1889-1893), “Rouen Cathedral, Sunset” (1894), “The Seine Morning “(18 96-1897), and etc.
In 1890 Monet changed the Giverny into the water lily garden, where he painted “water lily” series for 20 years. Later these works developed into a big round mural in 1925, and was placed in the two 80-foot oval-shaped hall in Paris Yile Rio Palace, which displayed to the public in 1971. Regardless of eye disease in his old age, he continued to explore the world until the death in 1926.
His main works include: “St. Edeless’s Balcony” (1866, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art), “the Women in Garden” (1866-1 867, the Louvre Museum), “River” (1868, Chicago Tibetan Institute of the Arts), “impression: Sunrise” (1872, Bali Ma Motan Museum), “La Paris Saint Charles train station” (1877, Harvard University Fogg Art Museum), “cock” (1891, Tibetan Art Institute of Chicago) and “water lily” even for (1906-1926, Paris tennis court).

(Claude Monet,1840-1926) France painter of impressionism ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Abstract is a relative concept of representation, which is getting out common points of many things, and to integrate into a new concept, and this concept is called” abstract”. “Abstract painting” generally refers to the painting style which wanted to leave the “imitate natural” in the twentieth century, and it including a number of schools, not just a name of a faction: it was a long-term sustainability evolutional from. However, regardless of their factions, their common characteristic was to try to break the traditional ideas of painting which must imitate nature. After the 1930s and World War II, the various forms that from the abstract concept has become the most popular, most unique artistic style in the twentieth century.
Abstract painting made intuition and imagination as the starting point of creation and excluded any kind of descriptive approach that with symbolic, literature, and performance, and just integrated form and color and organized them on the picture. Thus what abstract painting shows were pure form and color which similar to the music.
Abstract painting trends can be divided into: (1) a geometric abstraction (or cold abstract). This was based on Cezanne’s theory as a starting point, and then developed from Cubism, Constructivism, and neoplasticism ….,. Their characteristics had a geometry trend. The representative of this paint style could be Mondrian. (2) Lyrical abstraction or hot abstraction. This was based on Gauguin’s art concepts, and then Fauvism, Expressionism, with romantic tendencies. The Kandinsky was the representative.

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The explore ways of art in the world have two basic forms, the image and symbol; intuitive feel and spirit expression. Since 1885, a reaction named symbolism tent to idealism developed both in the field of literature and molding art at the same time, painters and writers were no longer committed to show the outside world faithfully, but should express the visional dream through the symbolic and metaphorical and decorative images which can enlighten others.
According to an article of the critic Albert Orier in March 1891 that determine the definition of Symbolism, he thought that art works should be: (1) spiritual, for its only idea was to show the spirit; (2) Symbolist, as it is to show this spirit with shape; (3) comprehensive, for it is based on a common understanding of the ways to paint the shapes and marks; (4) subjective, as it never set object to be seen as a target, but as the spiritual signal that can be found from the subject; (5) (as result) decorative, because the pure decorative paintings that invented maybe by the Egyptians, or very likely by Greeks or the primitive were just a kind of artistic expression which was subjective, comprehensive, and the symbolist and spiritual.
The representative painters of the symbolism were Morro, Savannah and Redon. The painters of Symbolism had not created a new form of schools, what they cared about were only poetic expression and principle reveal. Symbolist paintings is a kind of explore that based on feeling and toward new content, but not to observe on the basis of rational or objective, and it was the inherent power and imagination that over outside intuition.

Symbolist ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Picasso was born in the Spanish city of Malaga in 1881. He showed his talent early, and became a good painter at his teens. In 1904 he settled in Paris, and after that he lived in France.
He engaged in artistic activities from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1970s and became the most influential modernism painter. In his lifetime, the painting ways and styles changed again and again. His early paintings were similar to the theme of the expressionism; later he paid attention to the original art, to simplify the image. In 1915-1920, his painting style had ever transferred to the realism style. And also tent to Surrealism markedly in 1930. He created a large number of pottery and sculpture and so on in his late life, which also had outstanding achievements. His works have a great impact on modern Western art schools.
He died in France Mashing in 1973.
Different form Vincent Van Gogh who was down in all life, Picasso’s life was extremely brilliant, and he is a first painter who can see his own works were collected in the Louvre. In December 1999, a French newspaper conducted a public opinion survey; he won the greatest of the top ten painter of the 20th century with 40% highest number of votes of the election.
“The boy holding a pipe,” created in 1905, was the representative work of Picasso’s “rose period”. This painting was also considered by many people as an outstanding man color works. With a Pipe to foil a boy’s youth and sexy who ware a crown on his head. “The boy holding a pipe” was sold at the New York Sotheby auction house with the auction price 100,000,000 4,160,000 U.S. dollars, which broke the world record of painting works, and became the world’s most expensive painting.

The Summary of Picasso ©2010 Oil Paintings Market News

Picasso, Spanish, had remarkable artistic talent since early age. His father was an artistic teacher, and he had strict painting training in the Art Academy, so he had solid modeling capability.
His had several changes of his painting style in his life, could be divided into the following periods:
“Blue period”, “Red Rose Period”, “black period”, “Cubism period”, and had two forms of decomposition and comprehensive, “Classical period”, “surreal period” and the “abstract period”.
Picasso was an explorer of artistic ways in his life; the artistic ways of impressionism, post-impressionism, fauvism were absorbed by him and became his own style. His talent lies in that among his variant styles had maintained his own rough bold personality, and also in the use of every way, can achieve internal unity and harmony. He had a peak level, regardless of his works like ceramics, printmaking, sculpture were all as childish as game. In his lifetime, has never had a particular teacher, or specific student, but all the painters that active in the twentieth century, no one can completely follow and move the road that opened and forwarded by Picasso. He said: “When we go to work with the spirit of selfless, sometimes the work we do will tend to us automatically. Do not worry too much of all kinds of things, because it would come to your side naturally or accidentally, I think death will also be the same!”
He quietly left and finish his 93-year-old long career, He wore out his life with his wishes.

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