Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood 🎨🖌🖼

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shocked Victorian London when seven young rebels rejected the Royal Academy in 1848, choosing raw color and Quattrocento sincerity over Raphael’s polished ideals. This post traces the movement’s roots, its obsession with nature and literary myth, and profiles five defining painters — Millais, Hunt, Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, and Burne-Jones — alongside their most famous works. Discover how their vivid, detail-rich style still shapes British art today, and where to see Ophelia, The Light of the World, and other masterpieces in major museums worldwide. Continue reading Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood 🎨🖌🖼

Enzo Martinelli30/07/202629/07/2026Leave a comment

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Divisionism in Painting 🎨🖌🖼

Divisionism and Pointillism emerged from close artistic ties with French Impressionists in Paris and evolved into a distinct artistic movement. This article explores the contributions of Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Anna Boch, Camille Pissarro and Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo, examining how their work shaped modern art and where their major paintings can be seen today.
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Enzo Martinelli12/03/202612/03/20264 Comments

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French Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

In the second half of the 19th century, a group of artists in Paris changed the course of art history with a radical new approach to painting. Their work, which would come to be known as Impressionism, broke away from the academic traditions of the past, rejecting rigid compositions and historical or mythological subjects in favor of modern life, fleeting moments, and the vibrant play … Continue reading French Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

Enzo Martinelli16/02/202520/02/202534 Comments

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Abstract Art 🔲🖌👨🏼‍🎨

The Italian Renaissance was a time when artists started using naturalistic techniques in their artwork. They started creating realistic paintings that looked like actual objects. One of the greatest art masterpieces created during this time is Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa; this is an example of how artists moved from using primary to more complex colors in their artwork. They would then use naturalistic techniques … Continue reading Abstract Art 🔲🖌👨🏼‍🎨

Enzo Martinelli24/09/202225/03/202616 Comments

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My favourite artistic movements 🎨🖌🖼

To my personal taste, the history of painting seems to have achieved its peak with the end of the 19th century in France. In Paris at that time a very vibrant artistic environment developed which attracted many painters, from across Europe and beyond, who influenced each other and paved the way for a multitude of artistic movement to blossom and develop in so many different … Continue reading My favourite artistic movements 🎨🖌🖼

Enzo Martinelli07/09/202210/09/202230 Comments

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Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

The artistic period I like best is the Impressionism, which resonates very much with my perception of visual art, along with the representation of colour and light in painting. With his revolutionary painting, Impression, Sunrise, exhibited for the first time in Paris in April 1874, Claude Monet gave, unintentionally, the name to the nascent Impressionist movement that, at that time, also included fellow contemporary artists … Continue reading Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

Enzo Martinelli10/09/202116/02/202590 Comments

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Post-Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

The term post-Impressionism was used much later than the times when painters started diverging from the approaches used by impressionist painters. Paul Cézanne, recognised as the father of post-Impressionism, was among the first to react to the progressive loss of defined shapes and the representation of nature of the impressionists, giving more emphasis to geometric forms and the usage of unnatural or arbitrary colours. In … Continue reading Post-Impressionism 🎨🖌🖼

Enzo Martinelli20/06/202129/05/202636 Comments