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Dec 4 2010
Liberty Leading the People, Delacroix, 1830
Delacroix / French / Inspirational prints / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
A reproduction of a work by Eugene Delacroix, “Liberty Leading the People” of 1830. This Romantic masterpiece attempts to capture the concept that Liberty herself is the motivation for the uprising of the People against Oppression. Critics greeted the work as “ignoble” yet Delacroix secures his place as a promoter of the people over the claims of the aristocrats. He places himself in the tradition of Michelangelo and Rubens by accentuating color and movement rather than form and clarity. Charles Baudelaire said, “Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.” The artist died in 1863 at the age of sixty-five years. The painting was placed in the Louvre in 1876 and served as the model for the Statue of Liberty.
Nov 27 2010
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains by Albert Bierstadt, 1866
Academician / American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of Albert Bierstadt’s masterpiece “A Storm in the Rocky Mountains” of 1866. The artist created the work at the age of thirty-six having been born in Solingen, Germany. His family moved to Massachusetts when he was three years old and he began painting in New England at an early age. He studied painting in Dusseldorf, Germany from 1853 to 1857 and first ventured to the western United States in 1859 and returned four years later. He was a member of the Hudson River School. He was popular in his day and remains popular today though critics have commented on his use of over-large canvases and excessive Romanticism. The original of this work is in the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York.
Nov 4 2010
Abbey in the Oakwood, Caspar David Friedrich, 1809
German / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This German Romantic masterpiece was painted by Caspar David Friedrich. The painting is typical of Friedrich’s work in his feeling of loneliness which earned him the epithet, “the taciturn man from the North”. He began the work at the age of thirty-four years. The depressed and profound aspect of the artist’s personality manifests itself in this dramatic work. It is currently housed in the Nationalgalerie, Staalichte Museen zu Berlin.
Nov 3 2010
Sadak in Search of the Waters of Oblivion, John Martin, 1813
British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This English Romantic masterpiece was the first exhibited work of John Martin. It was displayed when he was twenty-three years old. Martin went on the enjoy immense popularity and produced many works featuring Biblical scenes. Early producers of motion picture epics were heavily influenced by Martin’s work. He died in 1854 at the age of sixty-four years. The scene is inspired by the character of Sadak in James Ridley’s Tales of the Genii of 1764. Sadak seeks the Waters of Oblivion as part of an evil quest designed by his sultan.
Nov 2 2010
Oxbow by Thomas Cole, 1836
American / Inspirational prints / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece by Thomas Cole was created when the founder of the Hudson River School was thirty-five years old. The work was originally entitled “View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a thunderstorm”. Cole’s work set the mode for the Romanticism and Naturalism which became the hallmark of the American Hudson River School. The artist died in 1848.
Nov 1 2010
The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky, 1850
Academician / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc
This masterpiece of Ivan Aivazovsky is the most famous of his seascapes which constitute more than half of his works. This Armenian artist died in 1900 at the age of eighty-three years. This is probably his most Romantic piece. He burst upon the international scene in 1842 and was elected a member of five European Academies. He received the French Legion of Honor and left more than 6000 works by the time of his death.
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