Rusudan Petviashvili, 1968

Rusudan Petviashvili started to paint when she was one year and ten months old. The first personal exhibition was held when she became 6.

Up to the hundred of her graphic and colour pictures were exhibited: the large-formatted, highly complicated one-touch drawings, mostly.

Scholars, as well as the wide society, were bewildered to see an amazing skill of the child. In the age of 8, Petviashvili held two personal exhibitions in Moscow.

Eugène Delacroix | La Liberté guidant le peuple, 1830

The Paris uprising of July 27, 28, and 29, 1830, known as the Trois Glorieuses ("Three Glorious Days"), was initiated by the liberal republicans for violation of the Constitution by the Second Restoration government.
Charles X, the last Bourbon king of France, was overthrown and replaced by Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans. Delacroix, who witnessed the uprising, perceived it as a modern subject for a painting; the resulting work reflects the same romantic fervor he had applied to Massacre at Chios, a painting inspired by the Greek war of independence.

Bec Winnel, 1978 | VideoArt

Bec Winnel is an Australian Portrait illustrator who has become widely known for her soft and ethereal illustrations. She is a member of famous Illustrator list.

"I enjoy creating beautiful and detailed portraits of imaginary women in imaginary worlds that celebrate the feminine spirit.

My 'girls' are often accompanied by elements of nature, fantasy and items from bygone eras.

My colour palette is mostly soft, subdued pastels, and my mediums include pencil, pastel, watercolour and acrylic.

To further enhance the mystery, my girls are often fading into or out of the background, as if they are nearly there, speaking to you from a distant place.

Whilst I love creating my girls, I also enjoying experimenting in all creative forms including abstract painting, exploring colour, texture, pattern and various subject matters".

Claude Monet | Springtime, 1872 | Art in Detail

Title: Springtime.

Author: Claude Monet (French painter, 1840-1926) ⎆

Date: 1872.

Medium: Oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 50 cm × 65.5 cm.

Current location: Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.

Max Weber (1881-1961) | Cubist painter

Painter, sculptor, poet. Weber was an adventurous modernist who assimilated the influences of Cubism, Futurism, Orphism and Postimpressionism. Weber later memorialized his Jewish heritage in such works as Students of the Torah (1940) and Adoration of the Moon (1944).

At age ten Weber immigrated with his parents to Brooklyn. He studied at Pratt Institute and with Arthur Wesley Dow and subsequently taught in public schools in Virginia and Minnesota.

In 1905 he left for Paris, where he met Matisse🎨, Pablo Picasso🎨, and other vanguard painters of the day and organized the art class taught by Matisse.

Rembrandt | Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem, 1630

Title: Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem.

Author: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) ⎆.

Date: 1630.

Medium: Oil on panel.

Dimensions: 58cm × 46cm.

Current location: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Monet and his Muse, Camille

Camille Doncieux (15 January 1847 - 5 September 1879) was model, lover and wife of French ⎆ painter Claude Monet (1840-1926) ⎆, whose early paintings of her gave him his first taste of commercial and critical success.

But when Camille died young, at 32 years, after a long illness following the birth of their second child, the woman who replaced her in Monet's life was determined to obliterate her memory.

Alice, Monet's second wife, was consumed by jealousy of her departed rival and destroyed all photographic records of Camille.

Eugène Delacroix | Legacy

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 - 13 August 1863) was a leader of the French Romantic school.

At the sale of his work in 1864, 9140 works were attributed to Delacroix, including 853 paintings, 1525 pastels and water colours, 6629 drawings, 109 lithographs, and over 60 sketch books.

The number and quality of the drawings, whether done for constructive purposes or to capture a spontaneous movement, underscored his explanation, "Colour always occupies me, but drawing preoccupies me".