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There is no generally accepted and comprehensive definition of Art. It is most often explained as the expression of human creative skill and imagination, usually through paintings, sculpture and architecture . In principle art’s intention is to provide beauty and inspire the emotions through the artist’s imagination and technical skills. The observer then applies their […]
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Back to 1 Art and Sculpture In the 1970s a debate was ignited by Linda Nochlin’s essay entitled Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? This was followed by a raft of exhibitions that sought to redirect the focus on female artists. But only a select few names appear in standard art histories. So, […]
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Back to Index I recently traced my family tree all the way back to Adam, and to 4004 BCE – (see here) though several steps did appear to be a little dubious or mythical. However with the source being the Bible and the Qu’ran I am relaxed about that. But it got me to thinking […]
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The similarity of their names, Manet and Monet, their similar beards, the fact that they were both Paris born, both lived in the 19th century, both significant early Impressionists, both marrying their model/muse – this all leads to confusion between these two French artists. As we shall see Manet was born eight years earlier but […]
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A simple quiz for you, see how you do with these ten questions. BTW – the image on this page is, of course, Henri Matisse.
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This page will look at artists’ use of ‘props’ like facial hair, hats and wigs in their drawings and pictures of themselves… Back to Face Value 1Back to Artists A-Z QUICK LINKS:HatsBeardsMoustachesSide burnsWigsHair Back to Face Value 1 [hat] WEAR A HAT: [beard] WEAR A BEARD: [moust] SPORT A […]
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Of course there are other photos, paintings and self-portraits of these artists, but we thought it interesting to consider how they seek to represent themselves in these images: Forward to Face Value 2Back to Artists A-Z QUICK LINKS:DistinctiveEnigmaticContemplativeWorkingGlaringSmiling Forward to Face Value 2 [Distinct] DISTINCTIVE: The first set are those that we consider as standing […]
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six most interesting still life paintings
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The horse has been a popular subject in artworks throughout human history. Four early examples were discovered in European caves: 33,000 BCE This carving in ivory of a horse is dated to the Aurignacian period of the Upper Paleolithic, aka the Late Stone Age – 50,000 -12000 BP. It was discovered in the Vogelherd Cave […]
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Fine art and sculpture certainly inspires emotions, but it also often chooses to depict emotions: Happiness – producing images that promote positive emotions is probably motivated as a form of early community building. This first statuette is from 7th c Meso-America and the other is from 12th c Cambodia. Portraits are most often formal likenesses, […]
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From Editorial Team • editorialteam@ultcult.com Subject Launch of a new fine art and sculpture resource Date: 2 November 2021 Announcing a new resource for the appreciation of fine art and sculpture. Newly released, ultcult.com provides a catalogue of fine art and sculpture. It can be searched by artist, by artwork or by current venue. There […]
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Portraiture was the French Academy’s second-most important genre in its hierarchy. It described this as focusing on ‘capturing likeness’, this genre was lucrative, but less well-thought-of than history painting. Portraitists were derided for simply copying nature rather than inventing, though few portraits were executed entirely from life. Self-portraits act as a historical record of the […]
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LEADING SCULPTORS AND ARTISTS ultcult.com has assembled many thousands of artworks categorised by artist, art movement and their current whereabouts – but just where do you start? The ultcult.com editorial team has proposed a top 200 – 150 artists and 50 sculptors and highlighted their key artworks – so perhaps start here Below we provide […]
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The French Academie des Beaux-Arts (Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1648. It was not the first such academy: the Accademia dell’Arte del Disegno was founded by the Medici family in the early 1560s for the arts of Florence; In the 1580s the Pope founded the Accademia di San Luca for the art of […]
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ultcult.com is a fine art and sculpture resource. The central database is presented as the works of art arranged by art movement and school, they are therefore, as much as is practicable, shown in a chronology: For artworks – TO SEARCH BY ARTWORK START HERE Here are the nine Art & Sculpture segments: 1.1 Antiquity/ […]
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The original aphorism was Greek, attributed to the physician Hippocrates. It is translated into Latin as ars loga, vita brevis, though we choose to rotate the quote back to the Greek sequence to say that: ‘life is short, art eternal’. ultcult.com is intended to sustain the immortality of major fine art images and sculpture. Explore […]
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