most famous drawings of all time
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famous drawings and sketches
Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, M.C. Escher all those famous artists started there art with a sketch and a drawing. Famous drawings like the Vitruvian Man of Leonardo da Vinci, the pencil sketch from M.C. Escher where one hand draws the other and the famous drawings of Van Gogh are an insight in how the artists thought and how they approached there art works. A drawing is a personal statement of the artist. A sensitive and fragile gesture, not always meant for the public to see.
On this page you can find information about famous drawings, drawing made by famous artists throughout the ages. From the dawn of mankind up to modern drawing.
On this page you can find information about famous drawings, drawing made by famous artists throughout the ages. From the dawn of mankind up to modern drawing.
One of the most famous drawings ever
Probebly one of the most famous drawings of the history of art is the Vitruvian Man. A drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, where he constructs a man with the ideal proportions. A super man so to speak. According to the rules of Vitruvius, a Roman writer, architect and engineer Da Vinci made his drawing of the man in the circle trying to divide the human proportions with mathematical rules.I wrote about Leonardo and his Vitruvian Man before and you can read more details about the "perfect proportioned" man here. The drawing of Leonardo maybe became too famous. It almost became a sign, a symbol and although it gained fame it lost it's secrets. Personally I do not think it's the best drawing ever made, but it is an intriguing one. Hence the reason why best seller of Dan Brown "The da vinci code" was such an hit. I prefer the other drawings of Leonardo. For example the study of two hands or "a child playing with cats"
But it is definitely the most famous drawing ever made.
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nr 2 : M.C. Escher and his distorted perspective prints
the metamorphosis
Another famous drawing of Escher is Ascending and Decending. A drawing where anonymous people walk up and down the stairs, walking by without noticing or greeting each other. It's like a machinery of humans. No eye contact is made. They walk like puppets in the same rhythm never stopping ever walking in an endless circle.
M.C. Escher: His Life and Complete Graphic Work (With a Fully Illustrated Catalogue)
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The ancient and famous drawings of the caves of Lasceaux
The begining of the arts as we know it.
The drawings in the cave of Lasceaux are estimated to be 17,300 years old !!! That's a long time ago if you ask me.... And probably a lot of artists would wish they had the accuracy and skill the painters had at that time. But that's the strange thing, art does not get "better" over time. like computers do, no art changes over time according to the needs of the society.
We hardly paint bulls or deer, because they are not a part of our society anymore. We buy spareribs in the supermarket, we do not hunt the beasts. Yes Picasso painted a lot of bulls, but that's because it played (and sadly still plays) an important role in the Spanish tradition.
Lascaux:
Movement, Space and Time
The cave paintings also contains pictures of felines, a bird, a bear, a rhinoceros and a human being. Around the animal drawings are several abstract signs. Trees, plants or other things are not represented.
The caves of Lasceaux are situated near the village of Montignac, Dordogne, France. It was open for quit a while, but in the end they had to close the caves for visitors, because the cave drawings begun to suffer and has been beset with a fungus. Luckily they made a lot of pictures and there are some wonderfull books around which tells you the story of the caves.
Vincent van Gogh - Trees, oh wonderful trees
drawing a tree is a joy and slow process.
I do not think he was a genius like Picasso or Leonardo, he had to work hard to develop his own style. And his early drawings are not drawn with a swiftness and an easy hand like Rembrandt or Breughel. But maybe because he struggled so hard and really wanted to express his inner feelings his drawings became for what they are. Rough, full of emotion and life. If drawings could scream his drawings would.
I really love his series of trees he drew during his last weeks in the hospital. They are very observant and you can feel the wind and the elements blowing through the leaves.
Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Artists and there works
Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (National Gallery London) by Luke Syson
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Rembrandt: The Painter at Work, Revised Edition by Ernst van de Wetering
Rembrandt's intriguing painting technique stirred more...0 points
A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916 by John Richardson
In The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916, the second volume of more...0 points
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer (Princeton Classic Editions) by Erwin Panofsky
This classic text presents the life, times, and works more...0 points
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640: The Homer of Painting (Taschen Basic Art) by Gilles Neret
Renowned among his contemporaries as one of the fo more...0 points
Vincent van Gogh
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
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Henri Matisse, oh Matisse
For the modern masters, Picasso once said : "In the end there is only one : Matisse." He has such an clarity in drawing a line, such a simplicity, every curve and direction is necessary. His lines do have an utmost functionality. The empty space is as important as the line. The rhythms of his strokes, the diversity in his patterns. He definitely is a master draftsman.There are many drawings I could dwell about, but this page is only meant to name some of the famous artists who excelled in drawing. Perhaps I will write more about Matisse in the future, I let you know.
Matisse though did not only make excellent drawings his paintings where powerful as well. Being a collector of fabrics, he organized his paintings with folded fabrics with all kinds of designs. Although he used color in a very personal way, for me his drawings are exceptional as well.
Nu dans Un Fauteuil, c.1950
Henri Matisse
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Who is the best artist ever ?
Picasso, or Durer, Rembrandt or Michelangelo.
There are so many famous artists out there who deserve there fame and have made strange, fantastic, sensitive, weird, inspiring, visionary, beautiful drawings. But it is impossible for me to name them all in this lens and give them all the credit they deserve.Drawings are for me the soul of an artist. It is not censored, It's often not meant to go public, just a note, a recording for the artists himself. Drawings do have there own secrets and stories, they are by nature fragile and therefore powerful. Everything that can be broken easily is precious.
Luckily drawing is taken more seriously in the art world nowadays, you have galleries specialized in modern drawings and museums are organizing exhibitions solely devoted to drawings. From Rembrandt to Barnett Newman and from Michelangelo to Marlene Dumas.
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I will give you a small list of artists who where really good in drawing. But it is not only technique thats's important. To be a good artist you need beside skill also imagination and creativity.
Some runner ups of the most famous drawings are :
Albrecht Durer
Marlene Dumas
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Hieronymus Bosch
Joseph Beuys
Gustav Klimt
Egon Schiele
Tintoretto
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Drawing books the body and soul of drawing
Rembrandt van Rijn and his wild animals.
The Lion
This famous drawing of Rembrandt van Rijn made around 1650-52 depicts An extinct Cape Lion (Panthera leo melanochaitus).
It's an interesting drawing, probably made in the zoo "Artis" in Amsterdam, this zoo was close to his studio and home. It must have been quit a novelty to see a lion in the Netherlands around 1650. The damp low country was not really famous for it's lions....
But during the time of the golden age, the time when Holland was a great empire and rich country. They must have brought the lion from Africa. Rembrandt van Rijn also made a well know drawing of an elephant and one of a camel!!. These studies must have been an entertaining enterprise.
To me the drawings of Rembrandt are incredible, he drew them with such an ease. They are in a way quite expressionistic. Fast drawn pictures where emotion is the most important factor. Rembrandt simply had a brilliant technique, he did not have to show off. He was a virtuoso artists, but besides technique you need to put your soul into an artwork, and Rembrandt had the feel for this part of the arts as well. He was able to put his great technique into soulful masterworks.
A small selection
Soul Steinberg - Every line is an character, a personality
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
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The famous drawings Link List
- Picasso Museum Barcelona
- If you ever visit Spain visit Barcelona and the Picasso Museum
- The Vangogh Museum Amsterdam
- A museum not to be missed. An incredible collection of Van Gogh.
- M.C. Escher - the official website
- all about MC Escher
- Wiki new about Lasceaux paintings
- Information about the cave paintings of Lasceaux
- Het Rembrandt huis
- The house and studio where Rembrandt lived in Amsterdam
- Famous Drawings. ORG
- dedicated to famous drawings throughout history.
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Everything about the Flemish Baroque painter Rubens
- Francisco Goya
- Spanish romantic painter Goya
The famous drawing of Igor Stravinsky by Pablo Picasso
The drawing that became famous by the book of Betty Edwards.
Picasso gave art a new direction. The direction of childish freedom, something that was lost.
The Drawing of Igor Stravinsky is incredibly skillful. The drawing became famous because Betty Edwards published it in her book "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" - a classic teaching book, full of brilliant exercises. One of the exercises is to use the drawing of Picasso and place it upside down in front of you, and you have to copy the drawing in this position.
The book of Betty Edwards became incredibly popular and has been translated in many languages and reprinted many times over.
It's an interesting book and I use it sometimes for creating my own art lessons.
Pablo Picasso - The Bull - Lithography
A Life of Picasso:
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Picasso's Drawing, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition
Drawings at the National Gallery in Washington
Pablo Picasso was incredibly talented, an one in a million. Such artists are rare to find and are bound to become famous. His drawings tells us many a story. Now the National Gallery in Washington shows us works on paper from the first thirty years of Pablo Picasso's career.
The show "Picasso's Drawing, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition" is a candy for the eye, even if you have seen a lot of Picasso's drawings, it still is an amazing collection.
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The show "Picasso's Drawing, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition" is a candy for the eye, even if you have seen a lot of Picasso's drawings, it still is an amazing collection.
**** Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition January 29-May 6, 2012 - National Gallery Washington ***
Pablo Picasso News
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Famous drawings by Michaelangelo
Michaelangelo sculpture and artist of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo was a sculpture,painter, draftsman and Poet. A Homo Universalis like Leonardo Da Vinci. He is most notable for his paintings on the Sistine Chapel. An amazing piece of art. Imagine, how he had to paint the excellent figures on the ceiling. Working on his back on a scaffolding. Working quickly before the plaster dried out.
Personally I'm not a great fan of Michelangelo, his drawings and paintings are too much. Like super humans. Men and Women with godlike figures. Triceps and muscles like bodybuilders. But I admire the skill by which Michelangelo made his artworks.
The sublimity of the lines, the coloring of his paintings and the masterly sculptured figures. Michelangelo also wrote a lot of poems, and these too are for me over the top. Nevertheless, the drawing above is a great drawing, and one of the most famous drawings in the world. How strange, because you have the feeling that the drawing is not completely finished. But this gives it a magic touch I guess.
Michaelangelo's greatest drawings
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Don Quixote by Salvador Dali
A Story about windmills and giants
Don Quixote by Salvador Dali
24 x 18 inches
Fine Art Print / Poster
Salvador Dali, well known for his surrealistic paintings with wide horizons and bizarre deformities made an amazing series of watercolors and drawings about the anti hero Don Quichotte with his helper Sancho Panza. The battle against the windmills is well known. Don Quixote sees the world deformed, influenced by three penny novels about chivalry. Everything he encounters is strangely changed into a peculiar perspective.
In the along his travels, Don Quixote comes across prostitutes, innkeepers, shepherds, priests, and scorned lovers. These encounters are deformed by Don Quixote's imagination into chivalrous adventures.
The whole story is absurd and perfectly fitted for the absurd art of Salvador Dali. His Surrealism is closely connected with the famous story by Cervantes and the drawings he made are in a suitable dreamworld.
Who is the best draftsman ?
Or what has to be the most famous drawings ?
There a many artists out there, who in your opinion made amazing drawings.
which is your favorite drawing or which artist made incredible wonderful drawings ?
I really love Saul Steinberg, I think that he can put so much character in his drawings.
Tia2 says:
I'm not very familiar with Saul Steinberg, but I've always been impressed by Leonardo da Vinci's drawings.
LivRiley says:
I love many artists and could never choose just one. I think the unique style and portrayal of emotion of each individual artist is what makes the art so interesting and beautiful.
RocklawnArts says:
Hmm, hard to say but I saw an Escher exhibit last year that was pretty amazing.
SayGuddaycom says:
It might seem a little lowbrow but the first artist that really enchanted me as a child was Frank Frazetta.
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Atreyusmommy May 7, 2012 @ 2:55 pm | delete
- Great lens on different famous artwork. I featured your lens on my "My fiance's theories" Thank you for sharing
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AndyPo
Apr 3, 2012 @ 5:16 pm | delete
- Excellent selection of drawings
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tvyps
Mar 20, 2012 @ 3:43 am | delete
- Nicely done! Squid Angel blessed!
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TTMall
Mar 6, 2012 @ 4:01 pm | delete
- Great lens with excellent pictures. Thanks for sharing!
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RenaissanceWoman2010
Feb 29, 2012 @ 8:48 pm | delete
- I love what you shared about the personal statement of artist drawings that were perhaps never meant to be made public. There is an intimacy one won't find in a more refined piece of art. I enjoy many of the practice or preliminary sketches made by Leonardo da Vinci. I will look forward to visiting your Matisse lens.
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RocklawnArts
Feb 21, 2012 @ 5:21 pm | delete
- Great selection of drawings. I knew most of them already but it's a treat to see them all together.
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Richard3331
Feb 19, 2012 @ 6:57 am | delete
- This is lovely Thanks
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d-artist Feb 14, 2012 @ 4:08 pm | delete
- I forgot to mention one of my favorite drawings are from Albrecht Dürer and visited his home in Nürnberg Germany. I even got a print made right in front of me on his actual printing press.
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- I love visiting Museums....viewing the actual art in person from artists of the past, puts such a different light on the art...I just saw a special exhibit in Milwaukee Wisconsin of many Impressionist of the past....interestingly there were Spanish artists as well, but have forgotten their names.
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kathysart
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- Came back to bless this lens. SO GOOD. You are a great artist resource.
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