>>6183697This is a Turner piece. Turner was this dude from the englewood and once tied himself to a boat mast during a storm in order to capture the scene. He is one of the first dudes who really overhauls the idea of atmosphere dominating the painting.
>>6183696This is Van Gogh. idk too much about this painting and too many people misconstrue the dude. He suffered from epilepsy and was usually severely malnourished, consuming only coffee and alcohol at one point. He also had fucked up eye lenses due to lead poisoning he got from eating paint due in part because he was too broke to get food. This is theorized to be why the lights and stars in most of his paintings are shaped the way they are. You can get this effect if you dialate your own eyes, albeit to a lesser degree.
He was shot by some 16 year old in a field and didn't want to get the kid in trouble, so he kept it to himself, and died. The autopsy reports are clear that the wound was impossible for the human anatomy to inflict.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/unchanged/2014/12/vincent-van-gogh-murder-mystery>>6183692This is Alphonse Bouguereau, one of the best if not THE best painters to ever capture the nature of human flesh on canvas. His works focus on women, usually young ones, in various works of fiction and of his own invention. Dude was insanely skilled.
>>6183689This is Botticelli's 'The Birth of Venus/Aphrodite'. This is an early renaissance painting that kinda set the pace for what the renaissance was about: embracing the old scientific methods of logic and reason along with the idea of 'perfection' from the Greeks and Romans. It had been deemed pagan by the church and set us back a few thousand years, but finally the church realized how much bank they could make if they commissioned artists to do junk for them.
