A fantastic animation in which Picasso's famous Guernica or Guernika goes into the 3rd (and 4th) dimension. Amazing
The Spanish government commissioned Pablo Picasso to paint a large mural for the Spanish display at the Paris International Exposition (the 1937 World's Fair in Paris ). The Guernica bombing inspired Picasso. Within 15 days of the attack, Pablo Picasso began painting this mural. On completion Guernica was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour brought the Spanish civil war to the world's attention. Guernica epitomizes the tragedies of war and the suffering war inflicts upon individuals. This monumental work has eclipsed the bounds of a single time and place, becoming a perpetual reminder of the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace
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Mike Oldfield: Let there be light
Let There Be Light from "The songs of distant earth" Album
In terms of Mike's career, The Songs of Distant Earth represented a foray into science fiction -related music. Songs such as "Supernova" and "Hibernaculum" could be seen as similar or even influenced by Enigma , while "New Beginning" has ethnic world chants in the style of Deep Forest . There are also Native American influences on the album. However to be fair, Mike Oldfield had been using a variety of ethnic musical styles since the 1970s, long before the emergence of Enigma or Deep Forest in the early 1990s. Such works as Ommadawn (1976) and Incantations (1978) featured extensive use of chanting and drumming in combination with uplifting instrumental solos. And more broadly, Mike's early work in the genre of atmospheric instrumental music tinged mixed with world and folk styles, is widely held as a forebear for the success of many other such instrumental artists
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Julian Beever Chalk Drawings
A collection of Julian Beever's chalk drawings that are painted on the pavements of the world
About Pablo Picasso: Julian Beever is an English chalk artist who has been creating trompe-l'œil chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the mid-1990s. His works are created using a projection called anamorphosis , and create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle. Besides this pavement art, Beever also paints murals and replicas of the works of masters and oil paintings, and creates collages . He works as a freelance performance artist and creates murals for companies. He has worked in the UK , Belgium , France , The Netherlands , Germany , Austria , Denmark , Spain , the U.S. , Australia and Brazil .
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Pablo Picasso
Picasso painting live... see one of the greatest artists the world has ever known in action
About Pablo Picasso: Pablo Ruiz Picasso (October 25 , 1881 – April 8, 1973), often referred to simply as Picasso, was a Spanish painter and sculptor. His full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso . One of the most recognized figures in 20th century art , he is best known as the co-founder, along with Georges Braque, of cubism. Picasso's final works were a mixture of styles, his means of expression in constant flux until the end of his life. Devoting his full energies to his work, Picasso became more daring, his works more colourful and expressive, and from 1968 through 1971 he produced a torrent of paintings and hundreds of copperplate etchings.
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Edward Hopper on Sunday Morning
Nice videoclip featuring works by Hopper, with "Sunday Morning" by the Velvet Underground
About Edward Hopper: Born in upper Nyack , New York to a prosperous dry-goods merchant, Hopper studied illustration and painting in New York City at the New York Institute of Art and Design. One of his teachers, artist Robert Henri , encouraged his students to use their art to "make a stir in the world". Henri, an influence on Hopper, motivated students to render realistic depictions of urban life. Henri's students, many of whom developed into important artists, became known as the Ashcan School of American art . Hopper studied under Henri for ten years. Hopper's most famous painting, "Nighthawks", was chosen by theartwolf as one of the 50 masterworks of painting
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In Winter Still: A Claude Monet Story
A nice Art tale gives life to some of Claude Monet's most beautiful and famous paintings.
About Claude Monet: Claude Monet, also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14 , 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise.
Today, Monet is widely considered as one of the most important, if not the greatest, impressionist painters
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Neil Young: Heart of Gold (live in 1971)
Neil Young performing his inmortal classic "Heart of Gold", in a 1971 concert.
About Neil Young: When an old rocker is lucky enough to become 60 years old alive and healthy, the most common is that he is already retired on a sunny Southern California ranch, far from the noise and stress of any rock activity. Few of them, braver –or perhaps a bit short of money-, can make a temporary return to record a new anthology or greatest hits , or even begin a short tour, relying on an always loyal audience. Only a selected group seems to find the strength, spirit and inspiration to keep composing original, high quality albums; and being the reference of dozens of younger artists... Read "The Rust and the Glory", a complete Neil Young retrospective by theartwolf.com
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Vincent van Gogh & Don McLean
Vincent van Gogh's stunning paintings with Don McLean's lovely song... What can be better?
About McLean and van Gogh: "Vincent" is a song by Don McLean written as a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh . It is also known by its opening line, " Starry Starry Night ", a reference to Van Gogh's painting Starry Night . The song describes a different painting by Van Gogh in each of its stanzas. Don McLean wrote the lyrics in 1971 after reading a book about the life of the artist. The following year, the song became the #1 hit in the UK and #12 in the USA. For several years, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam played the song daily. A copy of the sheet music is in a safe beneath the museum, along with a set of Van Gogh's paint brushes, the hat he wore while painting Starry Night , and various other items.