The mankind is blessed with the exceptional power of thinking and creating new from their innate abilities. Some people are blessed with the power of visualization and expressions. Several forms of art like playing music, singing, dance, poetry, sculpture, paintings and more are all the expressions that reflect the unique dimensions of human nature. These art forms reflect a deep understanding of the world which unfold the window of emotions revealing several moods and aspects of nature and well as the human connection exploring it. Painting is one art form that creates a wonderful display of the artist’s impression of numerous worldly and imaginary elements.
Most Famous Paintings in the World
Painting has been one of the oldest visual arts dating back to the ancient period when the primitive tribesmen carved designs with different shapes denoting the nature, humans and the animals. Painting as an art has evolved over time through different types of substrates and forms of creation. Different types of paintings are abstract, realism, aipan, pastel, oil painting, encaustic, spray, miniature, expressionism, tempera, impressionism, digital painting, gond painting, ink-wash, charcoal, pop art, cubism and more. Lets explore some of the famous paintings in the world.
1) Mona Lisa Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci
One of the most famous paintings in the world is La Goiconda popularly known as Mona Lisa, crafted by great Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. A portrait of Madame Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo; this historic painting reflects the ideal woman of renaissance. It was made in Sfumato technique using transparent colour through oil on poplar wood. This rich piece of art was owned by the French royals for centuries, was briefly kept in Napoleon Bonaparte’s bedroom for a short period. Official declared priceless, this painting has been considered as the best art of all time. Currently kept in Louvre Museum, Paris; it measures 77 x 53 cm in size, and is insured at $3 billion. This masterpiece was crafted between 1503 and 1509, is kept in an exclusive climate-controlled enclosure secured behind a bullet-proof glass illuminated by an LED lamp for minimizing the ultraviolet and infrared radiation.
2) The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
The Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh created The Starry Night, an oil painting on canvas, in June 1889. It features a fictitious village in addition to the scene from the east-facing window of his asylum chamber in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, right before daybreak. Night and nature were given an emotional language by Van Gogh that deviated greatly from their true looks. The Starry Night is one of the famous paintings, which is dominated by vibrant blues and yellows applied with gestural vitality and immediacy, also shows how inseparable van Gogh’s vision was from the new painting techniques he had developed, in which color and paint both convey their own status as simply colour and paint and describe a world outside the artwork.
3) Girl with a Pearl Earring by by Johannes Vermeer
Pearl-wielding girl Johannes Vermeer, a Dutch Golden Age painter, created the oil painting Earring in 1665. This unique painting is revered as most famous paintings for its excellent portrayal of the lady wearing the pearl earring. Due to the earring worn by the girl depicted there, it eventually adopted its current title at the end of the 20th century after going by several different titles over the years. In Vermeer’s paintings, the blue is strong. He applied the color using ultramarine, a unique pigment. It was composed of lazurite, a vivid blue mineral derived from the semi-precious Afghani stone lapis lazuli.
At the time, ultramarine was the priciest pigment available because to its extreme rarity. The price was even higher than that of gold. It is unclear how Vermeer was able to afford it, but he frequently used ultramarine in his famous paintings—not just in clothing, but also in less obvious areas like the shadows.
4) The Last Supper, Mural by Leonardo Da Vinci
The Last Supper is a mural painting one of the famous paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian High Renaissance artist, that is kept in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy. It was created somewhere between 1495 and 1498. According to the Gospel of John, the picture depicts the scene of Jesus’ Last Supper with the Twelve Apostles, particularly the instant when Jesus declares that one of his apostles will betray him.It is one of Leonardo’s most well-known paintings and one of the most identifiable in the Western world because to its mastery of perspective, control of space, handling of motion, and intricate portrayal of human emotion.
Despite multiple restoration attempts, the last of which was finished in 1999, very little of the original artwork is still there today due to the techniques employed, a number of environmental variables, and deliberate damage.
5) The Kiss, Painting by Gustav Klimt
Gustav Klimt, an Austrian Symbolist painter, created The Kiss, an oil painting on canvas embellished with gold leaf, silver, and platinum. It was painted sometime between 1907 and 1908, when his “Golden Period” was at its height, according to academics. A couple is shown cuddling in the artwork, their bodies intertwined in ornate robes embellished in a manner influenced by both the organic shapes of the previous Arts and Crafts movement and the modern Art Nouveau style. The is one of the most famous paintings which is regarded as a masterpiece of the Vienna Secession, the regional variety of Art Nouveau, and is likely Klimt’s most significant artwork. It is currently on display at the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere museum in Vienna’s Upper Belvedere Palace.
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These paintings reflect the painter’s intense thoughts and desires to express the elements in a mesmerizing manner. The famous paintings inspire scores of people towards adopting such magnificent art that gives a unique satisfaction of crafting these masterpieces. Painting is a captivating art that has an infinite potential to create amazing and thought-provoking artefacts.
