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What are the origins of art? Where does the urge to make art come from? Is it really a basic and universal human activity? This page is dedicated to those who enjoy many different types of art and the famous artists that created them.
Pablo Picasso was born in the Spanish city of Malaga. He attended art schools in Barcelona and Madrid but became impatient with their rigid, academic approach and soon abandoned formal study. After two trips to Paris, he settled permanently in that city in 1904 and never again lived outside France.
Although Picasso worked in many different styles throughout his life, much of his art is classified as the "Blue" period, the "Cubist" period, and the "Neoclassical" period.
Vicent van Gogh was born in the town of Groot-Zundert, in Holland, the son of a Dutch Protestant minister. In 1886 he went to stay in Paris with his brother. In Paris Vicent became aware of the new art movements and incorporated aspects of them into his own style, especially by introducing light, brilliant colors into his palette. Van Gogh shot himself in July of 1890 after many years of depression.
Michelangelo Buonarroti, whose name means "archangel Michael," was born in the Tuscan town of Caprese, began as an artist at the age of thirteen and did not stop until his death at age seventy-six. He traveled to Venice and Bologn, to Florence, then finally to Rome, where he attracted the first of what would become a long list of patrons among the clergy. A Pieta , Virgin mourning the dead Christ, made in 1500 and now in St. Peter's established his reputation as a sculptor. The David statue and The ceiling frescoes in the Sistine Chapel were two more of his famous works.
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