After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
This painting is unusual in that the costume is executed in a manner quite different
The artist freely applied paint in a thick, textured, and opaque manner over a commercially
One of the most iconic works by the American photographer Margaret Bourke-White, Fort Peck Dam, Montana was published on the cover of the inaugural issue of Life magazine on November 23, 1936. Assigned by Henry Luce to cover the massive New Deal project, Bourke-White photographed the dam, the spillway, and daily life in the surrounding boomtown.
Even her own persona was crafted in this manner as newspapers remarked on her daring
Born in Paris in 1832 to a wealthy family, Edouard Manet showed promise in drawing and caricature from an early age. After twice being denied admission to France’s prestigious Naval College, he enrolled in 1850 at the studio of academic artist Thomas Couture.
He soon adopted a free manner of painting that opposed the polished surfaces revered
; Pompadour apparently had no compunction about seeing herself depicted in this manner
Toward the end of his early Leiden period, Jan Lievens created a series of tronies, or head studies, of older men and women. Even though he based them on the features of live models, these tronies were character studies rather than formal portraits.
By the early 1630s their manners became so similar that even contemporaries were
Raised in Brooklyn, Walt Kuhn (born William but called Walt from a young age) developed an early interest in drawing and theater. In 1893 Kuhn took art classes at the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute.
The artist also painted many still lifes in a similarly bold, geometric manner.
Jan Miense Molenaer possessed the remarkable ability to create works that were as expressive as they were diverse. Taking inspiration from proverbs, poems, and the Bible, he painted merry companies, tavern groups, biblical scenes, and portraiture with brushwork that ranged from precise and refined to loose and free.
in 17th-century literature to conducting one’s life in a balanced and harmonious manner
Northern Landscape, Spring is the first oil painting by Caspar David Friedrich (1774 – 1840) or by any artist of the German romantic school—to enter the collections of the National Gallery of Art. It joins a superb pen and sepia wash drawing by Friedrich, Moonrise on an Empty Shore , 1837/1839, acquired in 1992.
There Friedrich learned his delicate and precise manner of painting, and developed
Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent much of his childhood in South Carolina. He briefly attended the University of South Carolina but in 1949 moved to New York City, where he took classes at a commercial art school.
visual arts by presenting them in a cool, seemingly detached, and often enigmatic manner
