At one evening meal, Salome danced for King Herod and his guests. The king was so entranced by her that he swore to give her whatever she asked of him. At her mother's request, she demanded the head of John the Baptist on a platter. Hippolyte-Lucas portrays her here in the role of the remorseless seductress, standing proudly next to the severed head of her mother's enemy. Because of its clever storytelling, this famous painting has made it on my list of the most amazing paintings.
Perhaps one of the greatest storytellers in all of art history, Norman Rockwell is famous for bringing narratives to life on canvas. The director George Lucas has famously compared his paintings to movies, and it is true that Rockwell has a unique ability to create a sense of cinema in oil paint.
This oil, entitled Delivering Two Busts, is exemplary of his ability to weave a narrative with just a few objects and carefully placed brushstrokes. The piece, which was painted in at the height of the Depression, captures a delivery man down on his luck.
The newspaper, haphazardly tossed on the ground at his feet, implies an unsuccessful job search, furthered by his slouched posture as he holds two busts for delivery. Among these famous artworks, these are some of the most legendary tales that have been beautifully captured in time. Rau, we want to celebrate triumphs from famous artists everywhere. That's why we've collected stunning and timeless pieces from both traditional to contemporary artists within the art world.
Ironically, Fabritius died in a devastating gunpowder explosion in , shortly after completing his most memorable work. Scroll through the list and find out which paintings scandalized Paris, were looted by the Nazis, and inspired a hit Broadway musical. You may also like: The 51 women who have won the Nobel Prize. The faceless woman lying on the ground was Anna Christina Olson, the neighbor and muse of Pennsylvania artist Andrew Wyeth.
Painted by Dutch master Jan van Eyck, this early Netherlandish panel painting is shrouded in symbolism. The elegantly dressed couple are thought to be Giovanni di Nicolao di Arnolfini, and his wife, Costanza Trenta , wealthy Italians living in Bruges.
The unusual composition begs several questions. Was the bride pregnant, or simply dressed in the latest fashion? And what are the mysterious figures depicted in the convex mirror? Grant Wood spent years searching for inspiration in Europe. The work that would make him famous, however, was painted after his return to the heartland.
Grant intended the couple to represent father and daughter; in reality, they were neither. Polyphemus, the giant that is sporting the solitary eyeball, peers over a rocky outcropping at the object of his desire—the nymph Galatea. David gravitated toward radical politics, aligning himself with the Jacobin ideologies of Marat and Maximilien Robespierre. In , archeologists working in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii unearthed a villa buried under 30 feet of volcanic ash.
Preserved inside was a room, measuring approximately square feet, containing a series of beautiful yet baffling frescoes. The images depict more than two dozen, life-size figures.
At the center of the activity is a clothesless woman, shown flogged in one scene while dancing and playing the cymbals in another. Most scholars concur that the cycle represents a Dionysian initiation cult. Little, however, is known about the young woman who modeled for the portrait. The Paris Salon rejected the painting, declaring it obscene. The closely observed work depicts Dr. Sitting behind Gross, to the right of the painting is a self-portrait of the artist.
Jurists, shocked by the gory realism, rejected the work, which was eventually housed in a reconstruction of a U. Army Post Hospital. Although the finger has frequently been pointed at now-deceased Boston career criminal Whitey Bulger , the thieves have never been caught, and the whereabouts of the missing artwork remains unknown. Walter Sickert, noted for his moody portraits and dimly lit domestic interiors, may have harbored a secret darker than his paintings.
Van Gogh spent working in the South of France and was joined in October of that year by Gauguin. The troubled artist cut off his ear, wrapped in newspaper, and reportedly gave it to a local prostitute for safekeeping. Picasso expressly forbid the exhibition of his masterwork in Spain until the country became a republic. While his homeland never met that demand, the painting was seen—behind bullet-proof glass—at the Prada in Madrid in , six years after the death of dictator Francisco Franco.
I felt tired and ill. I stopped and looked out over the fjord—the sun was setting, and the clouds turning blood red. I sensed a scream passing through nature; it seemed to me that I heard the scream.
I painted this picture, painted the clouds as actual blood. The color shrieked. It, too, was eventually recovered despite fears it had been destroyed. A leading post-impressionist and frenemy of Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin abandoned his wife and children for a hedonistic life in the South Seas. After the war, the portrait turned up in the state-run Galerie Belvedere. Both patron and muse, Bloch-Bauer is the only sitter Klimt painted twice.
In , year-old Marcel Ravidat opened a window to the distant past when he fell into a hole while out walking with his dog in the Dordogne region of France. The hole led to a cave covered with approximately 6, Paleolithic images depicting animals, enigmatic symbols, and a lone human form. The purpose of the paintings, created with mineral pigments and charcoal, is obscure but may be linked to some sort of ceremonial rite.
Commissioned by a member of the powerful Medici clan, it has been suggested that figures in the composition were modeled on members of the family. Sargent had hoped the portrait would make his career. The painting, however, set off a scandal of such magnitude that Sargent exiled himself to England.
What was it that had so offended Parisian high society? Pie Corbett, writer and educationalist, has suggestions to help your class use a painting for storytelling. Begin by selecting a painting based on a story that you think will appeal. For many children, starting with an image has the advantage of the story immediately beginning to grow in the child's mind.
Start by asking the children to respond and explore the painting see Reading Paintings. Discuss, develop and dramatise ideas, loitering with the picture. This initial imaginative 'reading' will begin to stir up fragments of stories and possibilities as well as help children become intimate with the painting. Read or tell the story to the children a number of times.
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