Caspar David Friedrich, Il Viandante sul mare di nebbia.

ROMANTICISM: ARTISTS AND WORKS

Romanticism is that phase in which artist begins looking towards himself to project his own feelings and aspirations onto his works.
Artists who joined this movement underlined the importance of feelings and imagination rather than rationality.

More than an artistic movement Romanticism was a life style and artists, poets and musicians of the Romantic period had the same wish to make art to convey feelings and communicate them to the public.
In this post you’ll find the features and the protagonists of Romanticism.

Romanticism

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ART LITHOGRAPH: WHAT IT IS AND AN ONLINE PLATFORM FOR ARTISTS

Greatest artists have always loved experimenting with new techniques and many of them, starting from the early 19^thcentury, have created works using the technique of lithography.
But what is exactly lithography and which are the available instruments that today an artist can use to create a lithographic art printing?

In this post I’ll explain what lithography is, but especially I’ll give you the details to discover where today you can create high-quality lithographs.

Art lithograph: what it is and an online platform for artists

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MANNERISM: DEFINITION, WORKS AND ARTISTS

Mannerism marks the end of Renaissance.
It’s a very long period, covering almost all the 16^th century and which was theorized for the first time by Giorgio Vasari, who indicated as masters of Renaissance absolute perfection Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo, whereas all the following artists would only imitate the greatest artists with no hope of creating something more beautiful and perfect.

That’s how you get to Mannerism, that is a style imitating the style of the greatest Renaissance masters.

Here are the major mannerist artists and their works.

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Composizione (1916) di Kandinskji – Museo del Novecento di Milano.

ABSTRACT ART

Abstract art is an artistic movement developed in the early 20^th century, and takes on the meaning of “not real”.
The path which led to Abstract art originated from Symbolism, which recalled sounds, feelings and emotions without necessarily representing reality for what it is, but inserting images more similar to dreams and nightmares.

Abstract art starts from here, and simplifies images more and more, until it makes them unrecognizable and assigns to colours and forms a meaning you can’t understand without an explanation.

In this post you’ll find the 5 most important things to know to understand Abstract art and the major artists of this artistic movement.

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Jacques-Louis David, ll giuramento degli Orazi, 1785. Image source: wikipedia.it

NEOCLASSICISM: WHAT IT IS AND WHEN IT DEVELOPED

In my blog I’ve often mentioned Neoclassicism. It happened when I talked about my visit to the exhibition “From Hayez to Boldini” in Brescia, and when I showed you the images of the new rooms dedicated to Antonio Canova at the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice.
I’ve been thinking about a post dedicated to Neoclassicism for a while, in order to explain once and for all in which period this movement developed and who the major artists of this movement are.

In this post you’ll find a definition of Neoclassicism.

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