An Expensive Art

No. 5, 1948 is painted by an American painter Jackson Pollock. He is well known for his work No. 5 which has been the most expensive art ever sold privately or auctioned. He is known also for his contributions in the abstract art movement as well. The painting No. 5 is painted in an 8” x 4’ canvas with thick amount of yellow and brown drizzled on top of it giving it an impression like a nest. It was sold to David Martinez at a recorded price of $140 million beating the last recorded highest sale at $5 million of Gustav Klimt's 1907 Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

Facts on Dali

Dali is one of the prolific and inspirational artists of twentieth century who has started his career with early seascape paintings to the creative heights of his surrealist phase. He and his works mostly examined his highly imaginative and versatile works with various styles and subjects which fascinated him. He was hugely gained inspiration by the Pre-Raphaelites, Meta physical painters and French realists. Some of his visual creations like the melting clock faces, elephants with delicate spider legs, humans coming out breaking an egg shell, etc were proved to be some of the most popular an recognizable art works of the last century.

MODERN ART PAINTINGS FOR HOMES

Paintings are a popular interior decorating item. They help you to add your personal touch to your house. The choice of your paintings will reflect your personality. Modern art paintings are becoming very popular these days and they make great decorative wall pieces. Modern art paintings are capable of completely transforming the look of the room. For example a landscape painting can add certain soothing and calm effect to the room. Similarly a painting with a water fall or sea shore can make your mind wander on the beautiful sandy beaches. Whatever the subject of the painting might be the point here is that modern art paintings are indeed a great option for decoration and they can easily enhance the look of your room.

POP ART PAINTINGS

Pop art is an artistic movement that developed in the mid 1950s within the cities of New York and London. The artistic movement of pop art was inspired by the western capitalist society and hence the pop art paintings portrayed the progress and consumption during those times. Pop art is a combination of two art forms that were merged around the mid 50s and mid 60s by some of the artists to show the society’s ideals in an ironic manner. Now-a-days pop art paintings portray mainly music and movie icons in some bright colors. These pictures of the movie or music stars can be obtained from some movie scenes or photographs.

An ode to M.F Hussain

Admired Indian born artist Maqbool Fida Husain aka MF Hussain, who was given the name “Picasso of India”, departed on June 9. He made four museums to display his work and had a assortment of archetypal sports cars. Husain was connected with Indian modernization in the 1940s. The 95-year-old artist departed this life of a cardiac arrest at the Royal Brompton Hospital, London. He was not in fine wellbeing for over a month.

The demise of MF Hussain, who had also created and directed a few movies including Gaja Gamini with Madhuri Dixit, has distressed people from Bollywood. Bollywood will without doubt miss this grand celebrity, who was a muse for many.

A manifestation of culture through art

Pop art came into sight in the 1950's. It bridged the gap between high end and low end art. It was the face of daily bits and pieces, accepted wisdom and thoughts of consumerism. It was a mirror image of the city, artists resided in and their culture caught in colors. Andy Warhol was the most famous pop art artist. Times past show us that advancing in Pop art yield towering surplus. Many collectors treat art as a business. Still there are collectors who are devoted to accumulating pop art paintings out of love for culture and the artistic traits.

The legend, M.F. Hussain expires

The Picasso of India, M.F. Hussain who was 95 years old, died on Thursday, 9th June, in a hospital of London. The cause of his death is not clear as yet, but the speculations remark that he was facing some problems in his lungs. The painter had worked on 25,000 paintings, some of which were absolutely priceless. Criticized by Indians, he was forced to leave the country in 2006 and later became a citizen of Qatar. The loss of this great artist is being felt by millions all over the world. He had a large fan following and was truly loved by every person who met him in his lifetime.