I should start out by saying that I have never studied art and know very little about it. I don’t know what makes a good painting great or a great painting a masterpiece but I do know what makes one famous. That would be any painting that even a guy like me would recognize. This list is not about colors, depth of field, symbolism, interpretation or why the artist chose to paint on beaverboard over canvas. This list looks at the personal lives of the people that have posed as subjects or models in 10 well known paintings which I feel is never discussed enough. Please comment if anyone feels the information I have gathered is not entirely accurate or if you have any other interesting facts on these subjects and models.
Works by the Viennese creator have attained astronomical prices at auction. But the true value is in the symbolism of his paintings, which were stolen from Jewish families by the Nazis
Some of the loot taken from Dresden s Green Vault Museum was recovered after four of the defendants made confessions in court, but many of the historic pieces are feared lost forever
A picture is worth a thousand words, and like texts, art is often meant to be "read" through critical deconstruction. Paintings can be far more complicated