Cullenary Art

Archive for the ‘Western Art’ Category

Italian French by birth and training, Claude Lorrain is one of the great landscape painters of the Baroque, whose style inspired, directly or indirectly to other large landscape beyond, as the Dutch Van Goyen, Van Ruysdael, the French Corot and Rousseau, the Turner and Constable, British or even the early painters of the Hudson River School in America. Read the rest of this entry »

The art of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, one of the most original painters of any era, has tried to frame in the mannerist and baroque, with as little success as a painter and cataloging of the Greek school, Spanish or Italian. In fact, a unique artist, who runs his own pictorial language, a talent that would only be understood with the advent of twentieth century avant-garde. Read the rest of this entry »

“I paint portraits because I paid for it, I paint landscapes because I like it”
Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough, the greatest English painter of the eighteenth century, spent his life divided between landscapes and portraits. The first filled her soul, but only seconds to fill their pockets. To solve this dilemma often resorted to outdoor portrait with which managed to devote much of their efforts to landscape ensuring his fame among the upper class customers. Read the rest of this entry »