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Back 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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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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