Alexandra Nechita (born August 27, 1985) is a Romanian-American cubist painter and philanthropist. At age 12 she was dubbed the "Petite Picasso" by the media and the art community. She has been praised for her paintings and vision of art.
The largest collection of weeping woman images is held by the Spanish State and is housed at the Museo nacional Centro de arte Reina Sofia alongside 'Guernica'.
It should be noted that Andres Valencia, who has been called an “art prodigy” and “little Picasso,” is only 10. With the gallery closed, he was joined by his mother, Elsa Valencia, 48, a jewelry designer when she is not chaperoning her son to art shows, and the gallery's owner, Bernie Chase.
Le Rêve (English: The Dream) is a 1932 oil on canvas painting (130 × 97 cm) by Pablo Picasso, then 50 years old, portraying his 22-year-old mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter. It is said to have been painted in one afternoon, on 24 January 1932.
By the time she was 20, Mariam Paré was already an accomplished artist. She had grown up painting and drawing, and was pursuing her bachelor's degree in fine arts.
Sarah Ezekiel: The artist who paints with her eyes. London-based artist Sarah Ezekiel has won international recognition for her vivid, life-affirming images. But her work is all the more remarkable for the fact that she has a medical condition that has left her unable to move her arms.
Alexa Meade paints on the human body and three-dimensional spaces, creating the illusion that our reality is a two-dimensional painting. “Alexa Meade's work may look like something you would see hanging on the wall in an art gallery, but Meade isn't like any other artist.
Generally, Frida Kahlo is seen as a Surrealist Artist. Surrealists typically paint dreams and fantasies in a realistic style. However, Frida painted her own reality, her own suffering, and pain, her own inner experiences.
Picasso made this masterpiece to represent the grief and devastation caused by the Spanish Civil War which began in 1936. The painting is based on an image of a woman holding her dead child — taken from Picasso's anti-war mural Guernica.
The subject of Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror was a lover and muse of his, named Marie-Therese Walter. So, the meaning behind the work can be thought to have been very personal to Picasso, since she was an important part of his life.
“Of all the artists with whom Picasso identified, Van Gogh is the least often cited but probably the one that meant the most to him in later years. He talked of him as his patron saint, talked of him with intense admiration and compassion, never with any of his habitual irony or mockery.
He also had a collection of 50 artworks by traditional modern masters, including Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Douanier Rousseau, “whom he admired,” adds Diana Picasso. This book offers insight into Picasso's life, with each artwork acting as a diary of his life.
The easiest way to remove a thin layer of dust, grime or residue is with a soft cloth and soapy water. Due to its low pH level and mild properties, olive oil-based soap is often considered the most effective soap to use. Make sure you don't use anything that contains alcohol as this could remove some of the paint.
The most expensive paintings in the world
While some works of art are priceless, others have been sold with an astronomical price tag. The most expensive painting ever sold is the Salvator Mundi, the Saviour of the World in English, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
Weeping Woman is now valued by Sotheby's in excess of $100 million so it is difficult to argue it wasn't a good purchase. And it was mostly privately funded.
After an anonymous tip-off to police, the painting was found undamaged in a locker at Spencer Street railway station on 19 August 1986. The theft still remains unsolved.
The Weeping Woman is a silent protest at the bombing of Guernica, a Basque town in Spain, by Germany in the Spanish Civil War. It compresses more suffering in a single face than Rubens normally put into an entire Crucifixion.
Van Gogh was seeking respite from plaguing depression at the Saint-Paul asylum in Saint-Rémy in southern France when he painted The Starry Night.
Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo is arguably the world's most famous female Surrealist, but women across the globe have long employed art to plumb the depths of dreams and the unconscious.
Aside from her powerful self-portraits, Mexican artist and feminist icon Frida Kahlo is perhaps most known for her unibrow, a purposeful statement rejecting stereotypes about what conventional beauty looks like.
Frida Kahlo (1907–1954), Mexican painter claimed by Breton as surrealist, though Kahlo herself rejected the label.
Leonardo da Vinci - Mona Lisa, 1503 - 1505
Widely known for her mysterious smile and everlasting beauty, one of the most famous paintings of women ever made, the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, represents a classical renaissance half-body portrait, set against a background of a distant landscape.