The Ten Most Famous Paintings of All Time (Part II)
How have you been, dear friends? In our previous meeting, I told you that I wanted to make two posts dedicated to one of the arts that are equally passionate and inspiring to the human being: painting. That is why I decided to review some lists and studies to select the 10 most famous paintings in the history of art.
In the previous issue we saw how Guernica by Pablo Picasso, El nacimiento de Venus by Sandro Botticelli, La persistencia de la memoria de Salvador Dalí, El beso de Gustav Klimt and La maja desnuda by Francisco de Goya were positioned on our list of 10.
On this occasion I am going to bring you the first 5 remaining works. I know that many of you will imagine what they are, but it is worth knowing a little more about them. I must say again, that these works were selected because they are not only the most recognized, but also the most imitated, reproduced by the media, the most parodied, hence they are considered icons of our popular culture. In other words, their historical, cultural and artistic value has transcended to become timeless and mass works. Let's start with the 5 best:
In the position 5: The Scream
Due to its expressive force, the work El Grito (The Scream) is considered a precursor of the expressionist movement. It is the most famous painting by the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch. This painting was made with a mixed technique: oil and pastel on cardboard and measures 91 cm x 73.5 cm. The Scream presents an androgynous figure in the foreground with a gesture of anguish that transmits great expressiveness and psychological strength. It is not surprising that El grito is one of the most desired pieces of art by thieves, as its price is very high. In fact, in 2012 it became the work of art for which the most money has been paid in an auction. Because of its fame and value, it has been the victim of several thefts that have deteriorated it. This work belongs to the National Gallery of Oslo, Norway.
In the position 4: Starry Night
Starry Night is one of the best known images in modern culture as well as being one of the most reproduced and desired engravings. It is the masterpiece of the post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent Van Gogh painted this painting from views from his window of the Saint-Paul-de-Mausole asylum, where he was interned because of his mental problems. This work was painted in the middle of 1889, thirteen months before his death. The technique he used was oil on canvas, in which he used moistened oil and fine brushes. Measuring 73.7 cm x 92.2 cm, it has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York since 1941. Considered Van Gogh's magnum opus, the painting has been reproduced numerous times and is known as one of the most famous paintings in history.
In the position 3: The Creation of Adam
Adam's Creation is a Michelangelo fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. It is one of the most appreciated and recognized works of art in the world and represents the Genesis scene in which God gives life to Adam, the first man on earth. It has a size of 280 cm x 570 and was painted in 1511 which corresponds to the time of the Italian Renaissance. The central image that gives the enigmatic power to the fresco is the scene of the hands of God and man. The suspense that creates the minimal space Michelangelo leaves between the two beings represents the perfect allegory of the origin of the human being through the search for the divine. It is currently in the vault of the Sistine Chapel along with nearly 500 square meters more of frescoes by sculptor and artist Michelangelo.
In the position 2: The Last Supper
The Last Supper is one of the most important and well-known works in the world, both for its religious meaning and for its well-known author: Leonardo da Vinci. It is known that the author took 4 years to complete this work and used a technique of tempera and oil on plaster. The size of the painting is 8.8 meters wide and 4.6 meters high. This painting is still in the same place where it was made, in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. Because it was painted on the surface of a wall, it is very complicated to move it. With this work, Leonardo da Vinci intended to capture the reaction of the 12 disciples of Jesus after he told them that one of them would betray him.
In the position 1: The Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa or Gioconda is the most famous painting that exists. It is an oil on poplar board of 77 x 53 cm, painted between 1503 and 1506, and retouched several times by the author. The technique used was Sfumato, a very characteristic procedure of Leonardo da Vinci, its creator. The painting is protected by multiple security systems and set for optimal preservation. It is constantly reviewed to verify and prevent deterioration. Although it has never been appraised, if it were, it would surely reach the highest figure in the history of art. It is therefore not surprising that it was stolen from the Louvre by Vicenzo Perrugia (Italian painter) in 1911 although it appeared two years later in Italy.
Without a doubt all these ten works of universal painting have a particular and principal place within the history of the Plastic Arts, but very especially within the taste of citizens, critics and other artists. These works, in spite of time and new artistic tendencies, continue to move and impact the world. I hope you liked this selection and that you can, at any time, use this information. You know: don't forget to vote for @adsactly as a witness and join our discord channel. Until the next smile. ;)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
https://listas.20minutos.es/lista/los-50-cuadros-mas-famosos-384672/
http://porelamordelart.blogspot.com/2013/04/las-20-pinturas-mas-famosas-de-todos.html
https://listas.20minutos.es/lista/los-50-cuadros-mas-famosos-384672/
http://www.theartwolf.com/masterworks/index_es.htm
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Thanks for this great selection of painting..I would talking about "The Mona Lisa" that fascinates us because we do not know anything about her.
Who is she ? Why is she smiling?
Serge Bramly explains in his "Leonardo da Vinci" that the Mona Lisa may not be a portrait, but an ideal woman, a dream person that Leonardo would have painted for himself, for pleasure. It is established that it is one of the very few paintings entirely painted by the hand of Leonardo alone. The artist may have lent him an expression that reminded him of his mother. This is the opinion of Freud, who was very interested in the "case Vinci", a child born out of wedlock of a servant whom his father then repudiated.
The smile fascinates precisely because we do not know what causes it. Why this woman (what is her age?) She smiles, while the background of the painting itself is frankly sinister: it suggests rather the annihilation (the sun is gone, not a trace of life, the darkness threaten ...). Oscar Wilde wrote of her that "her head is the one on which all the ends of the world have gathered, and her eyelids are a little tired". We also know, thanks to his notebooks, that Leonard was rather pessimistic at this time of his life.
But after all, the question "why is she smiling?" is it not important? Perhaps Leonardo especially wanted to paint a smile which one wonders what he means? One can read there the sweetness, the comprehension, the indulgence, the patience ... It seems ephemeral but it expresses the immutability ... all that Leonard expects of a woman? or rather a mother? Serge Bramly finds that the Mona Lisa "smiles with the smile of the wife, of the eternal mother, who has lived all the pleasures, all the sorrows, and who, even in pain, omniscient, full of compassion, as a female equivalent of Christ hands wisely crossed, peacefully defies time, consummator of all things.
Let's not forget that Leonardo da Vinci painter is a genius of mystery ...
Munch's relationship with his painting, as well as its interpretation, is a favorite topic of critics and experts. Someone thinks that cowering in terror of people coming from everywhere responds to the cry of nature. Others believe that Munch foresaw all the catastrophes and upheavals that await humanity in the twentieth century, and portrayed the horror of the future and, at the same time, the impossibility of overcoming it. However, you are right, the emotionally charged picture became one of the first works of expressionism and for many remained its emblem, and the themes of despair and loneliness reflected in it turned out to be the main ones in the art of modernism.
The image in the painting "The Scream" by Munch has appeared more than once in different types of art. If you remember the famous mask from the movie "Scream", this picture inspired it.
That's right, @aydogdy. The scream has not only inspired parodies, but also psychoanalytic and social studies. I think this painting picks up a lot of the fears that there are in man. Thank you for commenting!
The Birth of Venus is an artistic creation by Sandro Botticelli made around 1485– 87. It portrays the goddess Venus (or Aphrodite as she is known in Greek folklore) rising up out of the ocean upon a shell as per the fantasy that clarifies her introduction to the world. The first area of the sketch and its official stay dubious.
A few specialists ascribe its bonus to Lorenzo de' Medici and the Villa of Castello as the site to which the work was initially ordained. Today, the sketch is held in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
That's right, @shucona!The birth of Venus was shared in the previous delivery.
Finished in 1642, at the pinnacle of the Dutch Golden Age, The Night Watch is a standout amongst the most renowned canvases by Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn. It portrays a city monitor moving out, driven by Captain Frans Banning Cocq and his lieutenant, Willem van Ruytenburch. For quite a bit of its reality, the work of art was covered with a dim varnish which gave the off base impression that it portrayed a night scene, prompting the name Night Watch. This varnish was evacuated just during the 1940s. The work of art is in plain view in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
The Scream is a progression of expressionist sketches and prints by Norwegian craftsman Edvard Munch, demonstrating an anguished figure against a dark red sky. The scene out of sight is Oslofjord, seen from the slope of Ekeberg, in Oslo. Edvard Munch made a few variants of The Scream in different media. The one appeared above was painted in 1893 and is in plain view in The National Gallery of Norway. It was stolen in 1994 out of a prominent craftsmanship robbery and recuperated a while later. In 2004 another variant of The Scream was stolen from the Munch Museum, just to be recuperated in 2006.
That's right
Water Lilies (or Nympheas) is a progression of roughly 250 oil artistic creations by French Impressionist Claude Monet. The works of art portray Monet's very own blossom cultivate at Giverny and were the principle focal point of his creative generation amid the most recent thirty years of his life. The sketches are in plain view at historical centers everywhere throughout the world. The one show above is shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Now and again alluded to as "the Dutch Mona Lisa", the Girl with a Pearl Earring was painted by Johannes Vermeer. Next to no is thought about Vermeer and his works and this artistic creation is no exemption. It isn't dated and it is indistinct whether this work was charged, and provided that this is true, by whom. Regardless, it is most likely not implied as an ordinary picture. Tracy Chevalier composed a verifiable novel fictionalizing the conditions of the sketch's creation. The epic propelled a 2003 film with Scarlett Johansson as Johannes Vermeer's right hand wearing the pearl hoop.
The most acclaimed painting ever, the Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci amid the Renaissance in Florence. He started painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 and completed it in a matter of seconds before he kicked the bucket in 1519. The work of art is named for Lisa del Giocondo, an individual from a well off group of Florence. In 1911, the Mona Lisa was stolen by Louver worker Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian loyalist who trusted the Mona Lisa ought to be come back to Italy. Subsequent to having kept the sketch in his flat for a long time, Peruggia was at long last gotten when he endeavored to pitch it to the chiefs of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Today, the Mona Lisa hangs again in the Louver in Paris where 6 million individuals see the artwork every year.
That's right, @arabimohonaj
The Starry Night was painted by Dutch craftsman Vincent van Gogh. In spite of the fact that Van Gogh sold just a single painting in his life, the outcome of his work is huge. Starry Night is one of his most popular artworks and has turned out to be a standout amongst the most notable pictures in current culture. The artwork demonstrates the town of Saint-Rémy under a whirling sky, in a view from the haven towards north. The cypress tree to one side was included into the organization. Since 1941 it has been in the changeless gathering of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
That's right, @malibeauty
Guernica is one of Pablo Picasso most renowned sketches, demonstrating the tragedies of war and the enduring it causes upon people, especially blameless regular citizens. Picasso's motivation in painting it was to convey the world's thoughtfulness regarding the shelling of the Basque town of Guernica by German aircraft, who were supporting the Nationalist powers of General Franco amid the Spanish Civil War. Picasso finished the sketch by mid-June 1937. The work of art can be found in the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.
That's right, @yasminkotha
The Last Supper is a fifteenth century painting in Milan made by Leonardo da Vinci and spreads the back mass of the feasting corridor at the religious community of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. It speaks to the scene of The Last Supper when Jesus declares that one of his Twelve Apostles would double-cross him. Leonardo started take a shot at The Last Supper in 1495 and finished it in 1498 however he didn't chip away at the artistic creation persistently. A few authors recommend that the individual in the composition situated to one side of Jesus is Mary Magdalene as opposed to John the Apostle, as most workmanship history specialists recognize that individual. This famous hypothesis was the point of the book The Templar Revelation (1997), and assumes a focal job in Dan Brown's epic The Da Vinci Code (2003).
That's right, @riyad11
The Sistine Chapel roof, painted by Michelangelo somewhere in the range of 1508 and 1512, at the commission of Pope Julius II, is a standout amongst the most prestigious works of art of the High Renaissance. The roof is that of the extensive Chapel worked inside the Vatican in Rome. Fundamental to the roof design are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis. Among the last to be finished was the Creation of Adam in which God the Father revives Adam, the primary man. The Creation of Adam is one of the well known artworks ever and has been the subject of endless of references and spoofs.
That's right, @jackjounior
Great. I have always love painting and art work since when I was a little child but the painful thing in that is that I am so poor in drawing so I gave up. The painting is great and all looks beautiful but if I want to choose, I will first go with the number 2 which is the last supper. That image have always been popular and have also been one of the event that have been practised across the whole world for so many years now and till date. Great painting work or art work rather if I must say
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Too bad you stopped painting! Even if you did it wrong, if it's your passion, what you like to do, you shouldn't give it up. Suddenly, with hard work and dedication you manage to perfect the technique. Many of the famous painters more than brush skills, demonstrated creativity and innovation in their style. I wouldn't give up on you! Greetings, @jaffgrah
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@nancybriti your painting review for this week is topnotch as i can't even chose a best because i love them all, most of them i have been seeing while i was a child but it is your review here that has made me understand some of them but either i will still try to make my own choice.
The Last Super.
Just like you pointed out, it has its religious meaning, so because i am religious person (christian) i will chose this as my number one. That was Christ having the last super with his followers before he was crucified. However it was in that places he charged them to do good and strive towards being the perfect man Jesus.
Creation of Adam.
This one is my second as it portray the creation of the first man on earth made in the image of God. Hehehe please this is my choice o.
The rest are okay with the way they are positioned.
Thanks for reviewing, i like to see another review.
Thank you for having and expressing your list of best works. I think a lot of us grew up having a reproduction of The Last Supper in our homes and that makes it closer to us. And also, the film The Da Vinci Code gave it much more universal fame. Thank you always for your comment, @bozzcharlze.
This second part completes a great selection of the most famous paintings, and I am very glad that in this one there are three of the ones I suggested in my list: La Mona Lisa, El Grito and Noche estrellada. Actually, they are very famous works for all the load of meaning they have. Michelangelo's work is exceptional, the work of a being from another world. Thank you, @nancybriti for this important contribution and @adsactly for bringing us quality content.
Dear @adsactly sir!
The world is full of wealthy people of many such amazing art skills, in which only by their art works have made fame in the world. Of whom 10 people have mentioned your name in your blog. He tried to show his position in his artworks, painting, for which our common intellect strength decreases.Of course, there will be many such people, who would be surprised at the bidding of these paintings, how much could it cost so much. The truth is that such people need to understand the hidden messages in painting.By seeing the way the lively look of these paintings has been given, it is understood that the imagination power of making it is unique.
According to your promise, the artworks were presented in our blog and we got an opportunity to learn about 10 world-class painting simultaneously. In my personal opinion, Leonardo da Vinci's Monalisa painting impressed me the most. About that which has often been asked about the examinations of the composition. The way we see it in this painting, it looks like that. thanks sir
Nice painting images. I have heard about that number 1 images which is tge mona lisa. I always use to see it but i did not really know anything about it and who she is. The painting number 2 which is the last supper have always been one of the most popular painting for many years. And truely the last supper is also practised to remember Jesus
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That's right, @adenijiadeshina!
Really great work. There are masterpieces that everyone should know. Who admire centuries later. These are the most famous paintings that collect giant queues in front of museums around the world. Thank you for sharing @adsactly
Great post👌 Thanks for sharing...😊
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All of the painting are famous and gorgeous but i like The Mona Lisa best.Her smile is always iconic.