Art Miami
2nd t0 6th December | 2009 VIP Preview December 1st | Benefiting the Lotus House Womans Shelter The city’s prestigious, long running contemporary art fair, Art Miami 2009, is to celebrate its 20th birthday on December 2nd-6th. Art Miami is proud to showcase a wide variety of art from over 100 leading national and international [...]
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born on October 5, 1881 in Malaga Spain. Jose Ruiz, his father, was also an artist. Picasso painted in a variety of styles including Cubism and Expressionism. He was also a sculpture. In Cubism he attempted to show the dimensions of the objects throughout his paintings. When he painted in the classical [...]
Claude Monet
Claude Monet was born in Paris on November 14 1840. He grew up in LeHaver, near the coast. Even when he was a child he was a very good artist. His paintings were so good that one day an art supply store let him hang his paintings up in their window. Monet’s parents however, didn’t [...]
Henri Matisse
Henri Matissie was born in Le Cateau Cambresis, France, on December 31 1869. At first he got a degree in law, and then he decided to become an artist. He studied for three years with Gustave Moreau. He learnt a lot bt copying paintings by other great artists, such as Raphael. Matisse was one of [...]
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1887. He has a passion for cats and painted them a lot. During his time as an artist he had over 8,926 works of art. Throughout these peices of work he used simple lines and strong colours. In addition to his he used simple shapes to [...]
Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci was born in an Italian town called Vinci, in 1452. He lived in a time period called the Renaissance, a time when everyone was interested in art. Although Da Vinci was a great artist, he became famous through all of the other things he did, like sculpting for example. He was a [...]
Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in Spain in 1904. As a child, Dali showed strange behaviour and quite often interrupted his class in school. As he grew up, he began painting pictures that came from his dreams. His dreams were both scary and unreal. Dali went to an art school in Madrid, Spain. He got kicked [...]
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall, born on July 7, 1887 in Vitebsk, Russia, is famous mostly because of his Expressionism and Cubism paintings. He moved to France in 1932. He lived in the US from 1941 to 1948 then returned to France. He later died in France on March 28, 1985. He often painted violinists mainly because he [...]
Paris Street Painters Compete Against Cheap Chinese Paintings
Street artists painting on the streets of Montmartre in Pairs are soon to be a thing of the past with the introduction of very cheap Chinese painting done by artist’s equivalent of a battery hen in a steel cage. The majority of the 300 officially registered artists working on the streets of Paris now find [...]
S.H. Raza Experiences Fake Exhibition
Just imagine coming near to the end of your lifelong career as an artist. You’ve enjoyed much success over the years and galleries all over the world regularly put together exhibitions of your work. Famous galleries invite you over and treat you like a king and let you say a few words during the opening. [...]
