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Religion has shaped the very nature of our societies for countless centuries, and artists from around the world and from different religions have always been passionate about what they follow, and many have devoted hundreds of hours into creating unique pieces of art that captured how they felt about their faith.
From the incredible symmetry in Islam to the cathedrals of Catholicism, religious pieces of artwork tend to be some of the best and most intricate to be found anywhere.
Jackson Pollock has been called by many one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. There are also many out there that call him simply lucky because the world was open to his style of painting at the time. Then there are those who believe he is a fraud and he merely exposed how gullible the world can be, especially in the art communities.
When you think about famous artists throughout history, names that might spring to mind are Leonardi da Vinci, Henry Matisse and Pablo Picasso. What do they all have in common? The artists are males. But what of the talented female artists that have contributed to the world of art?
Not many people know that before Michelangelo become the embodiment of the Renaissance movement, he was no more than a common art forger. This was long before he grew into the magnificent force and leading sculptor of his time.
In 1496, when Michelangelo was only 21, he sculpted from marble a sleeping figure closely resembling Cupid. He then treated the marble so that it would resemble the ancient Roman statutes that sold for small fortunes to the collectors of the time. His deceiving creation was eventually sold via well-known art dealer of the time Baldassare del Milanese to none other than Cardinal Raffaele Riaro.
There are few works of art in the world that are more iconic than Leonardo da Vinci’s work, Mona Lisa. The legendary painting was originally commissioned as a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, and eventually became one of the most-discussed and most mysterious artworks of all time.
More than 500 years after Jheronimus van Aken, better known as Hieronymus Bosch, painted it, the Garden of Earthly Delights still intrigues and mystifies viewers. The Dutch painter is famous for his weird and wonderful allegorical works, but none are more fantastical than the triptych currently located in Madrid’s Museo del Prado.
Shakespeare’s plays have truly stood the test of time and the test of many, many strange adaptations. His plays are some of the most-performed productions in the history of theater. It’s little wonder that every now and then, or actually fairly regularly, people try to reinvent the wheel by putting a new spin on the bard’s great works.
However, sometimes these adaptations don’t always live up to the original work… Or just seem a little strange and whacky.
The style that a painter adopts for their work is arguably the biggest factor that sets them apart from other artists, allowing them to create work that is unique to them.
There have been dozens of different styles of painting developed over the last few hundred years, but only a handful of them have survived to this day, and are currently the main styles of painting that new artists will try and emulate when they first break into the scene.
Humans have been carving statues and sculptures for thousands of years, and as we’ve gotten better at it, our statues have become bigger and grander. So grand, in fact, that a handful of these statues have become towering behemoths, and can be seen from miles away.
These are some of the world’s most incredibly large statues.
Theatre is one of the oldest forms of entertainment, dating back thousands of years. Today, theatre is bigger than ever before, with millions around the world enjoying a massive variety of productions, from local community centres to huge plays on Broadway. Some of these productions have been so successful in their long runs that they’ve brought in billions of dollars in some cases.
