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Jim turrell. 500 Years of Female Portrait Paintings in 3 minutes! [VIDEO] August 27, 2014 in Art, artist, Painting, People, Video This is amazing: a mesmerizing 3-minute journey through 500 years of female portraits. Even if you’re no art expert, you will still appreciate the beauty of these masterpieces and get blown away by the evolution of art over the years. How many of the 90 paintings do you recognize?

Watch the video first and then see how many artists you got correct in the answers below. And don’t forget, if you’re looking for a piece of original art to hang on your walls, check out artFido HERE! Currently trending on artFido: Art Brut. Artlands. La Fontana. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Narwhal. Palindrome Inter.media Performance Group. Lehmann Maupin. An ambitious project collapsing. Martin Ramirez. Home - Steffen Dam.

OFCA International | El arte de especular - La gran burbuja del arte contemporaneo (La noche tematica 24-10-09) Spanish Colonial Art, Retablo Art, Mexican Antiques, Mexican Folk Art, Guatemalan Masks, Colonial Silver | Colonial Arts. Agra-Art Gallery - paintings of Nowosielski,Wilkoń and others | page: 1. Agra Art | auctions of the best Polish fine and contemporary paintings. Helene Schjerfbeck. Her work starts with a dazzlingly skilled, somewhat melancholic version of late-19th-century academic realism…it ends with distilled, nearly abstract images in which pure paint and cryptic description are held in perfect balance. (Roberta Smith, New York Times, November 27th 1992) Biography[edit] Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck was born on 10 July 1862 in Helsinki, Finland (then an autonomous Grand-Duchy within the Russian Empire), to Svante Schjerfbeck (an office manager) and Olga Johanna (née Printz).

When she was four she suffered a hip injury, which prevented her from attending school. She showed talent at an early age, and by the time she was eleven she was enrolled at the Finnish Art Society Drawing School, where her fees were paid by Adolf von Becker, who saw promise in her [ref. Ahtola-Moorhouse]. At this School Schjerfbeck met Helena Westermarck. When Schjerfbeck’s father died of tuberculosis on February 2, 1876, Schjerfbeck’s mother took in boarders so that they could get by. Miss Christine Wu. Artist. Los Angeles. Institute of Contemporary Arts : Homepage : Homepage. Ulises Pistolo Eliza. **Full Circle** GRACE DENIS › HOME. Ismael Fuentes. Dam & Karlslund Glas.

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Juan Rayos' Photostream. Nick van Woert. Grabado. Home. Eckman Fine Art. Graphia, blog de una asignatura. :: Artfutura :: Pintura. Videoarte. Libro de artista/ Papel.