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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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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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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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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 […]
Continue ReadingBack to 1.9.4.8 Sculpture digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Public Art – WORK IN PROGRESS Of course much of the sculptural works were intended for public display, but this section will look at those works that adorn our public spaces – this is a research exercise that […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.9 Public Art digest – Back to 1.9.4.7 Abstract Art digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Watch this brilliant Philip Scott Johnson© video featuring manyof the major pieces of classical sculpture here Sculpture is three-dimensional art made by one of four basic processes: carving, modelling, casting, […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.8 Sculpture digest – Back to 1.9.4.6 Animal Painting digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Abstract Art QUICK LINKS:1872-19121912-19151916-1925 1926-19451946-19551956-19641965 –[1872] Abstract Art 1872-1912Impressionism, Divisionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, Abstract Art and Abstract Art 20th CNote: the image sources are accredited at the linked page Whistler Rocket […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.7 Abstract Art digest – Back to 1.9.4.5 Still Life digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index In prehistoric times the desire to depict animals was worldwide. Later periods tended only to paint animals as part of a general scene. As the Renaissance dawned many history painters […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.6 Animal Painting – Back to 1.9.4.4 Landscape digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Still Life was the French Academy’s fifth genre, seemingly the least appreciated, because they did not involve human subject matter. The term derives from the Dutch word stilleven, meaning motionless or silent […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.5 Still Life digest – Back to 1.9.4.3 Genre Painting digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index The direct appreciation of nature and its usage as a specific subject for art, is a relatively recent notion. Before the seventeenth century landscape was usualy merely a background to […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.4 Landscape digest – Back to 1.9.4.2 Portraiture digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Genre Painting is the painting of everyday scenes from featuring ordinary people at work or relaxing, depicted in a normal and realistic style. With this approach, Genre Painting is about observation of […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.3 Genre painting digest – Back to 1.9.4.1 History Painting digestBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index 500 years, women in art© Philip Scott Johnson Male self portraits© Philip Scott Johnson ultcult.com was particularly moved by the two Philip Scott Johnson © mini-movies above, they morph through […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.9.4.2 PortraitureBack to 1.9 ultcult Charts – Back to 1 Art & Sculpture Index Raphael: School of Athens Da Vinci: The Last Supper Copley: Death, Major Pierson Delacroix: Liberty leading… History in this context is taken from the Italian word istoria or narrative. The term history painting is therefore a painting with a […]
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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/ […]
Continue ReadingForward to 1.8.6 Art ToursBack to 1.8 Recent/Present-day Art – Back to 1.7 Contemporary Art Work in progress from among these artists: Basquiat, Jean-Michel 1960-1988 American Calero, Sol 1982- Venezualan Condo, George 1957- American Currin, John 1962- American Fanzhi, Zeng 1964- American Huanca, Donna 1980- American Lutz-Kinoy, Matthew 1984- American Prince, Richard 1949- American Wool, […]
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