A bed on which a prostitute lies on a pile of graying old linens. Manet's portrayal of Olympia is extremely realistic. The reason for the scandal is not because the audience saw nudity. Beautiful Venus, Danae, Susanna and odalisques were exhibited constantly and did not cause outrage. Manet himself in the artwork is repelled by the classic Venus of Urbino brush Titian.
Exhibition in 1865 in Paris, the painting "Olympia" was exhibited to the audience, and the society was not ready for an adequate perception of the masterpiece. Now the canvas occupies an honorable place in the Paris Orsay Museum among the best artwork of Impressionists. But he had to wait for recognition for nearly 100 years.
And yet Manet did not create this painting to challenge the public. He tried to raise modern art to ancient heights and find the beautiful not in the ghosts of the past, but in the surrounding reality.
Powerful colors and moving forms: this is the bed of an ascetic and a dreamer, raped by his own vision of the ideal. An embodiment of Van Gogh's multifaceted and dark soul.
The peculiarity of the work is the fact that the author depicts several of his own artworks hanging on the wall. The bitter feeling of unrecognized and misunderstood by society is seen in this creative technique. Yellow and blue colors, which in the artwork of the master personify coziness, positivity and warmth, are used in abundance in the painting. It is known that the artist performed three versions of the artwork, keeping the composition, but changing the ratio of colors, depending on the mood.
The master made one version for his brother, the second for his mother and sister at their request. It was these people who were admirers of the artist's talent during his lifetime.
Р. Rauschenberg is the first artist to present his own bed as artwork. It is a relic of his sexual relationships with Cy Twombly and Jasper Johns - highly abstract and expressive.
Tracey's artwork is thought-provoking. Is there anything more intimate than sleeping in bed? This metaphorical installation speaks of love, dream and death in one person, echoing the work of Aubrey Beardsley. The installation features an untidy, dirty bed with the artist's personal belongings scattered around it, including empty vodka bottles, cigarette butts, used condoms and bloody underwear. Emin claimed to have spent several days in that bed when she was depressed due to problems in her personal life. - Artwork with a human face.
All the characters in the painting, with the exception of Sardanapalus, who is calmly observing everything, and the servant who obligingly serves him a goblet of poison with the purpose of committing suicide, are writhing in hellish pain, violence and fear. This artwork by the master Delacroix is a distinctive canvas characteristic of the French Romantic movement in the early 19th century. Tangibly present in it and powerful energy, and the cold shine of gold, and the luxurious glow of stones. And the author conveys all this luxury, using bright juicy colors, which he applies with big clear strokes.
The blood-red mattress of Delacroix's brush, laid on golden elephants, is a decadent masterpiece. The artist interprets the bed as an escape from shipwreck for the survivors.
In this surprisingly unpretentious artwork of erotic artwork, Rembrandt depicts not nymphs and satyrs, but a real Dutch couple - perhaps himself and his mistress Hendrikje Stoffels - making love in a cozy bed. The incredible coldness of the room contrasts with the warmth of the embrace of two people.
Long before Tracey Emin, Aubrey Beardsley, in "Self-Portrait," expressed his desire to dissolve into his richly appointed bed. "By the gods," reads the caption in French, "not all monsters live in Africa!". For Beardsley, art goes hand in hand with sensuality and sexuality - being in bed as such.
The painting is based on the artist's recollections of the illness and death of his older sister, Johanna Sofia "Sophie" Munch, who died of tuberculosis in 1877 (nine years earlier, the mother of the family, Laura Munch, had died of the same disease).
This artwork by Munch depicts a child on the brink of death. Emaciated and weak, the girl is supported in bed. A bed is the last refuge of an exhausted and weak person. Thus the author portrays the bed as a place of eternal rest.
The dream of St. "Ursula" can safely be called a masterpiece. In terms of the development of events, the picture does not occupy an important place in the cycle devoted to the life of this saint. Nothing happens here. The main role here is played by light. It fills the entire space of the painting like water fills an aquarium, and makes it itself luminous. It's a marvelous depiction of a Renaissance bedroom. Lying in bed, Ursula dreams not of love, but of God. In this dream, a vision will come to her that prompts her to become a martyr. Sometimes the bed is the epitome of danger.
In 312, on the eve of the battle against Maxentius, Constantine, according to legend, had a vision:
His camp bed looks comfortable and elegant. The dome of the tent resembles an invisible dream world hovering over the emperor sleeping on his bed.
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