Dela Cruz, John Mico F.

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1. Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, a village in the
southern province of North Brabant. He was the eldest son of the Reverend Theodorus van Gogh (1822 - 1885) and
Anna Cornelia Carbentus (1819 - 1907), whose other children were Vincent's sisters Elisabeth, Anna, and Wil, and his
brother Theo and Cor. Little is known about Vincent's early years other than that he was a quiet child with no obvious
artistic talent. He himself would later look back on his happy childhood with great pleasure. At the end of 1884 he
began painting and drawing a major series of heads and work-roughened peasant hands in preparation for a large and
complex figure piece that he was planning. In April 1885 this period of study came to fruition in the masterpiece of his
Dutch period, The Potato Eaters.

His Artworks:

Sunflowers (original title, in French: Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings
by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The sunflower paintings had a special significance for
Van Gogh: they communicated ‘gratitude’, he wrote.

Potato Eaters

This early canvas is considered Van Gogh's first masterpiece. Painted while living
among the peasants and laborers in Nuenen in the Netherlands, Van Gogh strove to
depict the people and their lives truthfully.

2. Wassily Kandisky

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow, Russia. His father was a tea merchant. When he
was five years old the family moved to Odessa, Russia. The young Kandinsky drew, wrote poems, and played the piano
and the cello. Because his family was fond of traveling, Kandinsky got to see the Italian cities of Venice, Rome, and
Florence as a young boy. He was also influenced by the imposing Muscovite (from Moscow) buildings such as the
Kremlin.

His Artworks:

Composition VIII, produced in 1923 by Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, is an oil-on-

canvas painting created in the Abstract style. Kandinsky, who had been fascinated with
colour since an early age and considered them to have transcendental properties, wished
to explore an interrelation between sound and colour that would allow a painter to
produce an artwork in a similar manner to how a musician composes a song. Composition
VIII offers an abstract contrast between calm and chaos, through shapes and lines
 3. Theo van Doesburg

Christian Emil Marie Küpper, who adopted the pseudonym Theo van Doesburg, was born in Utrecht, the
Netherlands, on August 30, 1883. His first exhibition of paintings was held in 1908 in the Hague. In the early 1910s he
wrote poetry and established himself as an art critic.

His artworks:

Composition VIII (The Cow)

Acting on his mission to inform people of the tenets of De Stijl, van Doesburg
abstracted the image of a grazing cow, beginning by creating figurative
studies, and gradually changing the image until the cow became a carefully
coordinated arrangement of colorful rectangles and squares. Van Doesburg
used this composition, as well as his preliminary studies, in a treatise on De
Stijl that he distributed for educational purposes. This painting is part of the artist's early foray into De Stijl, and
demonstrates his passion for the burgeoning movement. This painting literally demonstrates the meaning of
"abstracted" or "to abstract" in that it simplifies and reduces the thing depicted, transforming it into basic geometric
structural components. A contrast between Dancers and Composition VIII (The Cow) demonstrates the change in his
abstraction before and after creating De Stijl.

4. Fernando Amorsolo

The Philippine artist Fernando Amorsolo (1892-1972) was a portraitist and painter of rural land scapes. He is best
known for his craftsmanship and mastery in the use of light. Fernando Amorsolo was born May 30, 1892, in the Paco
district of Manila. At 13 he was apprenticed to the noted Philippine artist Fabian de la Rosa, his mother's first cousin.
In 1909 Amorsolo enrolled at the Liceo de Manila and then attended the fine-arts school at the University of the
Philippines, graduating in 1914. After working three years as a commercial artist and part-time instructor at the
university, he studied at the Escuela de San Fernando in Madrid. Amorsolo developed the use of light—actually,
backlight—which is his greatest contribution to Philippine painting. Characteristically, an Amorsolo painting contains a
glow against which the figures are outlined, and at one point of the canvas there is generally a burst of light that
highlights the smallest detail.

His artworks:

The making of Philippine flag is a masterpiece painting by Fernando Amorsolo in

Philippines. Fernando Amorsolo was one of the most important artists in the history
of painting in the Philippines. No doubt he created such a wonderful artwork. The
painting shows three women namely Marcella Marino de Agoncillo (on the right side)
refer as the mother of the Philippine flag, with the help of Lorenza and Delfina
Herbosa de Natividad which is actually the daughter of Marcela. They was tasked by
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo to sew the first flag for the new republic. The clothes that the women are wearing are an older
style, more vintage and really depict the traditional styles. The skirts the women’s are wearing are long and their tops
were like a traditional “kimona”. The three women are sewing passionately which demonstrates elegance.the painting
was not that kind of vibrant in the eyes but canset your mood in calm. The setting is inside of a house which is more
like a “Bahay Kubo” The main colors that was used in painting was brown, red, blue and yellow. The mood and visual
effect that this painting can be considered is calm and serene.
 5. Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí was born on May 11, 1904, in Figueres, Spain. From an early age Dalí was encouraged to practice his
art, and he would eventually go on to study at an academy in Madrid. In the 1920s, he went to Paris and began
interacting with artists such as Picasso, Magritte and Miró, which led to Dalí's first Surrealist phase. He is perhaps best
known for his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, showing melting clocks in a landscape setting.

His artworks:

The Persistence of Memory (1931) is not easy to grasp. In the painting, four clocks
are prominently on display in an otherwise empty desert scene. While this might
seem uncanny enough, the clocks are not flat as you might expect them to be, but
are bent out of shape, appearing to be in the act of melting away. Persistence of
Memory depicts a dream state, the melting and distorted clocks symbolize the
erratic passage of time that we experience while dreaming.

6. René Magritte

René Magritte was born in Belgium in 1898. After attending art school in Brussels, he worked in commercial
advertising to support himself while he experimented with his painting. In the mid 1920s he began to paint in the
surrealist style and became known for his witty and thought-provoking images and his use
of simple graphics and everyday objects, giving new meanings to familiar things. He died in
1967.

His artworks:

Son of Man

The meaning of the painting is cryptic, but one can extrapolate some meaning from the
words of Magritte himself. He spoke specifically of that feeling of human curiosity, where
one seeks to see the hidden things that exist behind the other objects that we see, but one
is often frustrated in this pursuit. The painting appears to capture this frustration—or “conflict,” as Magritte put it—by
allowing us only a slight glimpse of the man's face behind the fruit. The deeper meaning of this conflict, and whether it
speaks of the incidental hiddenness of objects behind other objects, or whether it speaks of the human conflict of
wanting to hide ones true face from the prying eyes of others, is up to interpretation. At face value, however, it is an
interesting exercise in stirring the curiosity of the viewer and making him feel as if he is not seeing the whole picture,
leaving him slightly unsatisfied and with a sense of mystery about what he has seen.
 7. Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, near the village of Vinci about 25 miles west of Florence. He was the
illegitimate (born to unmarried parents) son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary (a public official who certifies
legal documents) of Florence, and a local woman, Caterina. Not much is known about Leonardo's childhood except that
when he was fifteen, his father apprenticed him to Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488), the leading artist of Florence
and the early Renaissance.

His artworks:

Mona Lisa

This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a
visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato
technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa's enigmatic expression, which
seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame. The Mona Lisa's
famous smile represents the sitter in the same way that the juniper branches represent
Ginevra Benci and the ermine represents Cecilia Gallerani in their portraits, in Washington
and Krakow respectively. It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested
by the word "gioconda" in Italian. Leonardo made this notion of happiness the central
motif of the portrait: it is this notion which makes the work such an ideal. The nature of the landscape also plays a role.
The middle distance, on the same level as the sitter's chest, is in warm colors. Men live in this space: there is a winding
road and a bridge. This space represents the transition between the space of the sitter and the far distance, where the
landscape becomes a wild and uninhabited space of rocks and water which stretches to the horizon, which Leonardo
has cleverly drawn at the level of the sitter's eyes.

8. August Macke

August Macke, (born January 3, 1887, Meschede, Germany—died September 26, 1914, Perthes-les-Hurlus,
France), German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an influential group of Expressionist
artists.

His artworks:

The Lady in a green jacket

The painting exudes expressionism through its portraying of an emotional state and relaying
of a deeper meaning, which goes beyond the basic physical realities. The painting exudes
an expressionism feel by portraying both happiness in the two couples and sadness in the
lonely lady. The contrast of the two moods together with the loneliness of the lady in the
green jacket arouses our emotive thinking.