Top 10 Most Phenomenal Paintings In The World [part 1]

Did you know that in this world there are phenomenal paintings that can inspire you to become professional painters of the next generation. In addition to the beautiful paintings of our ancestors, you can also learn the objects in these famous paintings that are equipped with a bit of history packed to attract your art interest. You must be know Monalisa painting. Monalisa is one of the most phenomenal painting in the world. Besides Monalisa, there are still 10 other painting that are as phenomenal and famous as Monalisa painting. What are those painting ? Let's check it out...

1. From The Lake

_{Image : From The Lake}

From The Lake is one of the paintings made by Georgia O'Keeffe in 1924. Georgia spends his time at Geroge Lake to paint some of his work, one result is From The Lake painting. In this painting look a wave with a color that is combined in such a way that it resembles an abstract painting. The color arrangement is very dynamic, emblazoned in abstract terms taken from the actual state of nature. The object George sees is applied to a brush by applied to a brush by George in his painting style, and finally created a From The Lake painting.

_{Image : Georgia O'Keeffe}

2. The Persistence of Memory

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This painting was made in 1931 by the Spanish artist Salvador Dali, a very famous painter of Surrealism. In this painting, Dali describes several pocket watches. This painting genre is Surrealism, where the objects is taken from a dream or imagination and the applied to an image, visible shape of a wall clock is flexed, with a carcass. Every make a painting, Salvador writes :

"I was the first person to be shocked by the paintings I made on my canvas, I draw not because of choice, but my subconscious desire of my dreams".

A Surrealism painter usually has a high imagination, they don't depict an object from real world, that's the uniqueness of Dali painting.

_{Image : Salvador Dali}

3. The Dream

_{Image : The Dream}

The Dream was made by Pablo Picasso, an artist from Spain who was born in Malaga city at 1881. Picasso has made about 20,000 works throughout his life, with The Dream as his masterpiece. The painting is made with the Cubism genre, where an object drawn is shaped like a rectangles set, cubes, triangles, cones, and circles. Picasso was one of the first pioneers of the Cubism genre, along with another artist named Braque. In his painting The Dream, Picasso made the object of a 24-year-old woman who was sleeping in sofa. This painting was made in 1932, the painting was purchased in 1941 by Victor and Sally Gantz for $7000, and when they died, Picasso painting was resold in 1997 with the fantastic price of $48.4 million. 

_{Image : Pablo Picasso}

4. Corner of The Garden at Montgeron

_{Image : Corner of The Garden of Montgeron}

This painting was made by Claude Monet in 1877. The painter is known as a classical impressionist. The paintings is taken from nature, the garden, trees, and the water flows looked so alive. This is the purpose of an impressionist painter, providing the same picture angle with the reality of nature. In order for this painting connoisseur that the painting is alive. The color blend in Corner of The Garden of Montgeron is very suitable, the red color for the flowers is very suitable, the leaves are stained with yellowish green color, the effect of light on the water was applied in white and blue, so the painting is looked real, every object smallest object is painted in such a way by Claude Monet. No wonder, this painting looks so real.

_{Image : Claude Monet}

5. Cafe Terrace at Night

_{Image : Cafe Terrace at Night}

The painting was made in 1888 by a famous painter named Vincent Van Gogh, an artist from Netherlands. This painting taken from a cafe, where there are some people in it who are sitting drinking a cup of coffe, illuminated by lights, accompanied by a blue night sky with the stars. This is the first painting of Van Gogh that drawn in contrasting colors, where the colors on the cafe's terrace contradict the dark sky color, the smoothed floor tint does not match with the color of the table. But here is the uniqueness of the painting. Through this painting Van Gogh sent a letter to his sister that says :

"This is where you will see a night that doesn't look dark, you will see a very beautiful blue cloud"

_{Image : Vincent Van Gogh}

There are the top 10 most phenomenal paintings in the world [part 1]. Follow @AllAboutArts if you want to see part 2 in my next post.

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