19 famous works of art and their curiosities
Famous works of art in history have the power to fascinate and stimulate people's curiosity from the moment they gain recognition and projection.
Many of these peças have stories and curious facts that many times are not in the knowledge of the great public.
Also, we select emblematic and well-known works and trace some curiosities around them.
1. Pietá, by Michelangelo (1498-1499)
One of the most famous sculptures from the history of art and Pietá, which represents Virgem Maria com Jesus sem vida em seus braços.
A sculpture can be seen in the Basilica of São Pedro, not Vatican, and was produced between 1498 and 1499 by Renaissance Michelangelo.
A curiosity that few know about the work and that it is the only one that was assassinated by the artist. Seu nome of him can be read in a faixa that crosses or peito de Virgem Maria, where it is read: MICHEA [N] GELVS BONAROTVS FLORENT [INVS] FACIEBAT. A translation of the phrase says: Michelangelo Buonarroti, or Florentine, fez.
The artist only includes me from him depois that a peça has never been delivered. At assinatura ocorreu in a moment of raiva, pois we were running boasting that the authorship would be of another person, due to little life of Michelangelo.
Also, to clarify these dúvidas, or genius decided to mark his nome in sculpture, marking-or also in history.
2. Mona Lisa, by Da Vinci (1503-1506)
The most famous painting in the world is also some works with more curious and mysterious facts. Mona Lisa (The Mona Lisa, in Italian) is a small square of 77 x 53 cm that is located in the Museu do Louvre, in Paris.
Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1503 and 1506, this oil on wood displays a portrait of a young woman with enigmatic olhar and sorriso.
In 2015 we were able to study with high technology to verify the various layers of ink and it was confirmed that There are, no truth, four different portraits in the work, three of them ficaram hidden behind the Mona Lisa that I look at we get to know.
Outra interesting curiosity uncovered is the same study that, in contrast to what you imagined, Da Vinci painted some of the pictures and pictures, but the current painting is not noticeable.
Além disso, a cloth já foi roubada did not começo do seculo XX, in 1911. On occasion the painter Pablo Picasso was suspended, but it is known that a former official had retired to the work of the museum and tempted to sell it. Assim, he recovered to cloth.
There are many speculations and stories that surround Mona Lisa, or that contributed even more to her fame.
I also read: Mona Lisa, by Da Vinci: analysis and explanation.
3. O Scream, by Munch (1893)
Or scream It is a daquelas works of art that become an icon of a historical moment and, more than that, it translates a very specific type of feeling: anguish.
Norwegian hair painted Edward Munch in 1893, with 4 versions possible.
Specialists affirm that the terrified figure that we see in the center of the image is seen as an inspiration for a Peruvian mum present in an exhibition of 1850 in Paris.
A canvas was also published by the National Gallery of Oslo, in Norway. Or roubo ocorreu in 1994 and the thieves tiveram to ousadia deixar a non-local bilhete thanking for the lack of security. No year following the work was recovered and the gallery's security reinforced.
To know more: O Grito, by Munch: meaning and analysis.
4. David, by Michelangelo (1512)
Outra famous sculpture of western art é David, also by Michelangelo. A huge piece was made with solid marble, more than 5 meters high and weighing 5 tons.
The work is located in the Galeria da Academia, in Italy, and is an emblem of the Italian Renaissance period.
Some curious events will happen like a death, as the event has been attacked by a rain in 1512, causing some streaks.
As the first goal of the sixteenth century, David was attacked by objects during a protest and his arm suffered from fractures, which were restored.
More foi in 1991 than a more absurd occurrence, a sculpture sofreu an attack. An Italian artist deliberately martyred or lost David, breaking two fingers.
By contact, a visit to Michelangelo's first work is only possible with a prior schedule.
Approve your knowledge in: Analysis of the sculpture David by Michelangelo.
5. Moça with a jump of pérola, by Vermer (1665)
A more well-known work of the Dutch Johannes Vermeer é Moça with a jump from Pérola, 1665.
His fame is enormous and the painting gained the cinemas in 2003 as a film that tells in a fictional way how the process of creating the fabric and the relationship between the painter and the model.
But little reality is known about the matter, just that the inspiring muse was a young man portrayed with serenity and certain sensuality, observed in her half-open lips.
A jewel hanging in its orelha will stand out in the fabric to reveal a similar shine as it is present to us and to us.
It is also curious to observe that, in reality, the painter is not inserted in an image that links the pear to the lobe of the young woman. Assim, or I leap forward, a supernatural characteristic, as a glowing sphere pits itself while not ar. We can even compare or add to our own planet when there is no space.
A painting is iconic that is compared to Mona Lisa, gaining status as a "Dutch Mona Lisa."
Read more em: Analysis of Moça with Brinco de Pérola.
6. Or thinker, by Rodin (1917)
To sculpture Or thinker, by the French Auguste Rodin, is one of the great works of the XX century.
Completed in 1917, it was initially created to compor A porta do Inferno, a work that integrates several sculptures and was created in homage to Dante Alighieri's poem A Divina Comédia.
As a succession of this sculpture specifically, foram feitas novas versões. Ao todo, o sculptor made a dozen of "new thinkers".
O nome initial would be O poet, in reference to Alighieri, but as a figure portrayed not as a writer, he moved to O thinker.
O artist tinha consciência gives genius of his work and chegou to affirm:
Or what thinks or meu thinker and what thinks not only as a brain, as sobrancelhas, as distended nostrils and compressed lips, more like each muscle of your arms, sides and legs, like a closed fist and or two fingers pe.
For a more detailed analysis, read: O thinker, by August Rodin.
7. Abaporu, by Tarsila do Amaral (1928)
When a famous Brazilian painting is faulted, almost everyone is drawn from Abaporu, by Tarsila do Amaral.
Icon from the first phase of modernism in Brazil, a canvas was conceived in 1928 and was offered by Tarsila to her husband Oswald de Andrade as a present.
Comparing painting to sculpture O thinker, we see evident semelhança na corporal position of figures. By isso, he associates two works, such as Abaporu fosse a kind of “re-writing” of Rodin's sculpture.
On the other hand, the artist said in an interview in 2019 that Tarsila's house had a large inclined mirror. Furthermore, the disproportionate figure displayed would be a self-portrait of the artist, who positioned himself in front of or looked at and observed the most enormous condolences, to the detriment of the head.
In any way, cloth became a symbol of "anthropophagyism", a movement that sought to enhance Brazilian culture.
A painting has the most faces of history and is dubious within a framework of Brazilian culture, being valued at 45 to 200 thousand dollars.
Read more em: Meaning of Abaporu.
8. A persistência da memória, by Salvador Dalí (1931)
A famous surrealist canvas A persistence gives memory, from Spanish Salvador Dalí, exhibits an absurd image of melting religions, forms and flies, a body is shaped and an unusual landscape is founded.
With reduced dimensions (24 x 33 cm), it was raised in 1931 in just five hours during a creative tasting of the artist.
He tells me that Dalí had eaten Camembert that day he was unwell. When his wife was having fun with friends, or an artist decided to go home.
Ao it is isolated not ateliê he conceived a painting that became one of the most important movements of European vanguard.
To learn more about the analysis of this work, read: A persistência da memoria, by Dalí.
9. Olympia, by Manet (1863)
Another icon of European art é Olympia, feito by Édouart Manet in 1863. A canvas, which shows a woman deited and her entrepreneur who has drawn flowers, scandalized society of the time.
A reação ocorreu devido à maneira as a woman was portrayed, and not because of her being dressed. O olhar directly from Olympia demonstrates a haughtiness and firmness that shocks the public. Além disso, or not chosen for the work was common among prostitutes of the time in Paris, or that suggests that a personagem was a prostitute of high society.
Or fate of ignoring the flowers, possible present of a client, and facing or observing the confere ainda more ousadia.
Embora portrayed as courteous, at a young age she was a model, some of her was Victorine Meurent. She posed for various artists on the circuit, sobretudo, Manet. Or curious is that Victorine was also an artist, having painted some pictures, but she did not obtain successes in her career and practiced all of her lost fabrics.
As a common history of art, this is an example of a woman who softened as an artist, but she ganhou stood out as a model, I have her body eternalized in many more famous fabrics by Édouard Manet.
The painting is currently located in the Museu d'Orsay, in Paris.
10. Maman by Bourgeois
A French artist Louise Bourgeois created various sculptures of aranhas from two years 90. Some of them are known to the Brazilian public for staying for many years in Ibirapuera Park, integrating the collection of MAM (Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo).
As famous aranhas are important to the work of Bourgeois, they are related to his childhood and to the lembranças of the restoration of tapeçarias of his country.
Além disso, symbolized his mãe. The artist descreveu his mãe da next maneira: "She was deliberate, intelligent, patient, calming, thoughtful, delicate, subtle, indispensible, pure and useful quanto uma aranha".
Foram made several verses of aranhas, which levam or nome from Maman, which means "mãe".
11. Vênus de Milo (approximately second century BC). C)
Considered a symbol of classical Greek art, sculpture Vênus de Milo It was found by Yorgos Kentrotas, a Greek camponês, in 1820 on the island of Milos, not the Aegean Sea.
On occasion there was also a French sailor Olivier Voutier, who encouraged Yorgos to dig up the fish.
The excavations were found in addition to other fragments, such as a man securing a maçã and two pillars with male busts.
Depois de negotções, a work made by two Frenchmen and currently part of the Museu do Louvre, in Paris.
France lived through a period of revaluation of classical grego culture and houve enthusiasm with the acquisition of such a relic.
The time of its discovery was found on its basis by inscription as a text: "Alexandre, filho de Menides, city of Antioquia, fez a estatua".
Antioquia was a Turkish city founded in a secular apostle or Greek classical period. Assim, Vênus de Milos is not a sculpture originally by Grécia Antiga.
Meanwhile, the French were very frustrated with the possibility of authorship and the director of the Louvre Museum hired specialists to analyze the project. It is affirmed that based on the sculpture it had been incorporated later and that Venus had been sculpted by Praxíteles, a famous Greek sculptor in ancient times. Based on French hairs, it was ruled out.
Later, my new studies, it was verified that the sculpture of a baby was a creation of Alexandre de Menides.
This statue was made of marble, measuring 2 meters in height and weighing about 1 ton.
I also read: Analysis of the sculpture Vênus de Milo.
12. Fonte, attributed to Duchamp (1917)
In 1917 I was registered in a sculpture exhibition hall Fonte, a porcelain mictorio assinado com or nome R. Mutt.
But it caused scandal, but it was questioned that it could not be elevated to the status of art. Also, it became one of the most famous and important works of the Dada movement, giving new developments in modern art and, later, in contemporary art.
More curiosity than all of us know that the idea of this work may not have been by Marcel Duchamp, artist French who rises to fame pela criação da peça, and sim of an artist friend, to German Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven.
These speculations will arise from letters from Duchamp himself who affirms:
Uma das minhas friends that adotou or pseudonym of Richard Mutt sent me a porcelain urinol as a sculpture; Since there was nothing indecent, there was no reason to rejeit it.
13. A starry night, by Van Gogh (1889)
One of the most reproduced paintings in contemporary times A starry night, by Dutch Vincent Van Gogh.
Painted in 1889, a 73 x 92 cm canvas displays a night landscape with a huge spiral moving sky, suggesting the emotional turmoil that the artist experiences.
The work was conceived during the time that it was voluntarily not in the psychiatric hospital of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence e portrays a vista da janela de seu quarto combined with elements of imagination.
Assim, or vilarejo and a small church that alludes to Holland in which it passed its youth.
Studies suggest that the person represented exhibits two stars at the exact position at that moment, showing great knowledge of astronomy.
Read more em: A noite starry, by Van Gogh.
14. As meninas, Velásquez (1656)
To paint As meninas, by the famous Spanish painter Diego Velázquez, was born in 1656 at the Museo do Prado, in Madri.
A picture shows the royal family of the monarch Filipe IV and traces various curious elements that conferm uma surprising and original atmosphere, leading the viewer to imagine a whole narrative around two personagens.
This innovative work, pois deals with the perspective of a used way, creating an environment with several plans. Furthermore, he traces the figure of the artist himself in a self-portrait not qualifying and displayed in a haughty manner, in a search for recognition of the profusion.
The dinner shows little princess Margarida at the center with the ladies of the company and figures of court entertainment, like the puppy and the people with deficiencies on the direct side.
O royal house is portrayed in a small mirror on the side of the door.
Outra interesting question that the canvas suggests about what series or subject of Velázquez's painting within the own painting.
For a better understanding of the fabric, read: As meninas, by Velázquez: análise da obra.
15. O beijo, by Klimt (1908)
One of the most widely disseminated works worldwide that prints various objects at the present time Or beijo, Austrian Gustav Klimt.
Produced in 1908, the canvas portrays the love of a home and part of the young golden phase of the artist, who uses gold sheets as two materials.
Na imagem we see that the mantle that covers the figures appears circular, rectangular and small points of different colors.
As an inspiration for such a standardization, I saw images of blood platelets, studied under a microscope at the time, when scientists were fascinated with how uncovered they did not appear.
Years before the creation of cloth, or artist, he had made works inspired by medicine themes.
Also, it is possible to identify Klimt's desire to unite or romantic theme with the materialization of the human body.
To find out more, read: Quadro O beijo, by Gustav Klimt.
16. Salvator Mundi, attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci (about 1500)
A most controversial work attributed to Da Vinci é a tela Salvator mundi, which portrays Jesus Christ in the Renaissance style.
Despite having controversies about the author of the painting, this is the most expensive work ever sold in leilão. The value of the payment for oil on canvas was 450 thousand dollars in 2017.
At present it is not known exactly where the painting is located, but it was bought by a Saudi prince. When it was acquired, the idea was that it would be exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, or that it would not happen. Hoje speculates that there are two prince ships on the island.
17. O coffee washer, by Portinari (1934)
Or coffee washer is a painting by Cândido Portinari from 1934. At dinner he traced the figure of a working in the countryside with his enxada, big bare feet, a lavoura of coffee and a trem that cuts to the landscape.
It is one of the most representative works of the famous Brazilian painter and has the collaboration of the worker Nilton Rodrigues, who also posed for other fabrics, such as Mestiço e Café.
Despite the low quality of the video, it is worth conferring a stretch of the 1980 interview with Globo Reporter as a former lavrador.
To know more read: Analysis of the Coffee Washer, by Portinari.
18. The Artist Is Present, by Marina Abramović (2010)
One of the most successful performances of the artist Servia Marina Abramović and The Artist is Present, in translation The artist is present.
Held in 2010 at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art of New York), the work is an action in which Marina is present in an exhibition with her artistic costume.
She remains seated sniffing fixedly for the visitors, who um a um stood in front of her.
O put a stop on the performance and the reason for the project being won when your ex-companion (and also an artist) participates, positioning himself face to face with Marina.
You are still in contact with each other, but for 12 years we have been lovers and partners in various jobs. Assim, a connection between them, the olhares and gestures for the registered and emotional public.
19. Série Silhueta, by Ana Mendieta (1973-1980)
Ana Mendieta (1948–1985) was an important Cuban artist. Her production of her originated in the 70s and her field of performance was not body art and performance, contemporary art language, to discuss issues related to feminism.
The most famous work of the artist was a series Silhhouettes, in which she uses her body to integrate into nature, seeking to mark her feminine body in the world and also a spiritual connection as everything.
A curiosity that we draw here not specifically about this series, and just about the artist himself. Ana trazia fortes reflections on the body of violence against a woman and ironically morreu in doubtful circumstances, which suggests feminicídio.
In 1985, a young artist passed away from a brigade with her husband, or artist Carl Andre. She fell in the 34th place to walk in the precedence on which she morava. At death he was registered as a suicide, but there are strong indications that Carl has been exhausted. Her husband was dismissed for 3 years and acquitted.
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