My Museum

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2. ito. Ito Jakuchu was born in Kyoto in Japan. His father was a rich grocery man. The grocery shop had been in his family for four generations, and the family lived at the shop. He was 23 years old when his father died, and he inherited the business. He didn't really want to be a businessman, so after a few years, he let his younger brother run the shop, and he spent the rest of his life painting.

3. Ito In order to learn how to paint, he copied Chinese paintings, perhaps thousands of them. Then he got tired of just copying the paintings of other artists and decided to paint what he saw. He would watch the birds and other fowl in his garden and then paint those animals.When he painted The Tiger, he could not paint from a live model because there were no tigers in Japan, so he copied a picture that a Chinese artist had painted.You will enjoy looking at the paintings of Roosters and Hens . The roosters shown are the Yokohama variety. These roosters had tails that could grow to be 26 feet long! Jakuchu lived to be 85 years old and never married. He did not enjoy fame for his painting during his lifetime. People only began to become interested in his works after he had been gone for a hundred years or more.In the year 2000, which was 200 years after his death, the Kyoto National Museum featured a showing of his artworks.

4. Picasso

5. PACOSSO Pablo Ruiz Picasso first learned how to draw from his father, José Ruiz Blasco, an art teacher and curator of the local museum. The most prolific and famous artist of his time, Picasso was crucial to the development of modern art. He was an inventor of cubism and one of the prime practitioners of academic realism, Postimpressionism, art nouveau, expressionism, Fauvism, abstract expressionism, Surrealism, and Futurism. A skilled craftsman, he was the master of many mediums. Pablo Picasso was born Pablo Blasco on Oct. 25, 1881, in Malaga, Spain, where his father, José Ruiz Blasco, was a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts. Pablo's mother was Maria Picasso and the artist used her surname from about 1901 on. In 1891 the family moved to La Coruña, where, at the age of 14, Picasso began studying at the School of Fine Art. Under the academic instruction of his father, he developed his artistic talent at an extraordinary rate When the family moved to Barcelona in 1896, Picasso easily gained entrance to the School of Fine Arts. A year later he was admitted as an advanced student at the Royal Academy of San Fernando in Madrid; he demonstrated his remarkable ability by completing in one day an entrance examination for which an entire month was permitted.

6. KANDINSKY

7. KANDINSKY Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky spent his early childhood in Odessa. His parents played the piano and the zither and Kandinsky himself learned the piano and cello at an early age. The influence of music in his paintings cannot be overstated, down to the names of his paintings Improvisations, Impressions, and Compositions. In 1886, he enrolled at the University of Moscow, chose to study law and economics, and after passing his examinations, lectured at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He enjoyed success not only as a teacher but also wrote extensively on spirituality, a subject that remained of great interest and ultimately exerted substantial influence in his work. In 1895 Kandinsky attended a French Impressionist exhibition where he saw Monet's Haystacks at Giverny. He stated, "It was from the catalog I learned this was a haystack. I was upset I had not recognized it. I also thought the painter had no right to paint in such an imprecise fashion. Dimly I was aware too that the object did not appear in the picture..." Soon thereafter, at the age of thirty, Kandinsky left Moscow and went to Munich to study life-drawing, sketching and anatomy, regarded then as basic for an artistic education. In 1933, Kandinsky left Germany and settled near Paris, in Neuilly. The paintings from these later years were again the subject of controversy. Though out of favor with many of the patriarchs of Paris's artistic community, younger artists admired Kandinsky. His studio was visited regularly by Miro, Arp, Magnelli and Sophie Tauber. Kandinsky continued painting almost until his death in June, 1944. his unrelenting quest for new forms which carried him to the very extremes of geometric abstraction have provided us with an unparalleled collection .

8. RENOIR Renoir is one of the most famous painters of all time and was a very important influence on the impressionist movement in Europe and particularly France. His work is regarded as some of the most important in the movement and his name will be synonymous with skill and talent in painting. 1. Renoir is the only name that many people know him as, but it is really just his family name. The full name of Renoir is Pierre-Auguste Renoir and he was born in Limoges, in the province of Haute-Vienne in France. With his wife, AlineVictorineCharigot, Renoir had three sons. 2. Renoir was very influential in his field and was regarded by many critics and other painters as an authority in the field. One of his good friends was Claude Monet. Monet was a very significant influence on Renoir. Renoir did a portrait of Monet in 1875 which depicts him standing in front of a window holding a palette and his brushes. 3. One of the earliest paintings be Renoir was called Diana and was an image of the goddess Diana. Diana was a mythological figure from Roman history, and this piece was one of the most important works ever done by Renoir. The style of Renoir changed over his career and many wouldn't recognize the painting as his, at least not at first glance. But the colors and clear skin of the model are still very characteristic of Renoir's style and the evolution can be seen in the image.

9. RENOIR