Art And Literature

Etching is a method of printmaking in which strong acid or mordant is used to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio in the metal however the original process—in modern manufacturing other chemicals may be used on other types of material. As an intaglio method of printmaking [...]

Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only three [...]

Claude Monet was born on 14 November 1840 in Paris. Claude Monet is also known as Oscar Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet. In 1845, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery business, but Monet wanted to become an artist. His mother was a [...]

Quote: “I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.” (Kahlo)

Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán near Maxico city. Kahlo being a Mexican painter, painted using vibrant colors in a style that was influenced by indigenous cultures of Mexico and European influences including Realism, Symbolism, and Surrealism. Most of her [...]

Francisco Goya was born on 30 March 1746 in Fuendetodos, Aragón, Spain. His full name was Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes. He was a painter and printmaker.
At age 14, he entered apprenticeship with the painter José Luzán, after completing his early education at the school named Escuelas Pias. He later moved to Madrid where [...]

Helmut Newton, born Helmut Neustädter (31 October 1920, Berlin, Germany – 23 January 2004, West Hollywood, California, USA) was a German-Australian fashion photographer noted for his nude studies of women. He died at the age of 83 on 23 January 2004 in Los Angeles in a car accident.
Born in Berlin to a German-Jewish button-factory owner [...]

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members. It was an artistic movement that brought together artists, thinkers and researchers in hunt of sense of expression of the unconscious. Surrealists were searching for the definition of new aesthetic, [...]

Quote: “Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.” – Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989) was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres.
Dalí (Spanish pronunciation: [daˈli]) was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images [...]

Vincent van Gogh, for whom color was the chief symbol of expression, was born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. The son of a pastor, brought up in a religious and cultured atmosphere, Vincent was highly emotional and lacked self-confidence. Between 1860 and 1880, when he finally decided to become an artist, van Gogh had had two unsuitable [...]

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was born in Vinci, Italy. He was an illegitimate son of a young notary named Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence. He was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, [...]