The Triumph of Bacchus by Diego Velazquez The Triumph of Bacchus is a Baroque painting by Diego Velázquez dating from 1628-1629, which is also known as “Los borrachos.” The reason is simple: the canvas represents seven drunken men gathered around the Roman god Bacchus , whose attributes are wine, drunkenness and celebration. Bacchus often represents in painting the meaning of the temporary liberation that…
Discover the paintings of the Prado Museum Velázquez is one of the great Spanish masters of painting that we can see when we go to the Prado Museum in Madrid. In Spain we find the famous Prado Museum , which has housed the best European and world works in terms of painting since the 19th century. We find…
The origin of the world : a work of the Muse dorsal Now we present The Origin of the World , the painting that has been the subject of numerous flashes since it was created by Gustave Courbet in 1866. The canvas represents a female nude , whose focus is on the female genital organ. Courbet’s goal was to show…
The Muse dorsal and its impressionist collection Impressionist paintings take us back to the romantic life of the 19th century and immerse us in a unique atmosphere. There are many artistic currents represented among the works of the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. However, the Impressionists undoubtedly take the cake in the paintings that are preserved. Among the Impressionist painters, the…
The fortune teller by George de La Tour It was in the 1630s that the French painter George de La Tour made The Divine , an oil painting that takes up the theme of Caravaggio’s work : The Fortune Telling . It represents several characters in a 17th century scene: a gypsy woman predicting the future of a young man and three young…
The works preserved in the Louvre Museum The Louvre Museum is a veritable temple of the most famous French paintings such as Delacroix’s. Probably, the artistic collection of the Louvre Museum is one of the most complete in the world: Ingres, Degas, Géricault, Kandinsky, Delacroix or Veronese are present in this incredible art museum and in its…
Draw a portrait: facial axis, main elements, hair and environment To be successful in your first portrait, why not take a look at the axis technique ? This affordable technique for all beginners to drawing is particularly straightforward: draw a circle and then lines around it to form a sphere. Each line formed will allow easy positioning of…
Techniques for making cartoons To stand out in the art of caricature, it helps to know the basics of portrait painting . Most cartoonists begin to work with pencil or charcoal, then, to color the drawing, move on to colored pencils, crayons, acrylic paint, or pastels. To practice caricature, you can use pictures of famous or well-known people. You can also consider…
Make an artistic caricature “Nothing looks more like something than his cartoon.” – Gaston Bouthoul If there is one art of which drawing classes can never make you fully master, it is that of caricature . Between social criticism and exaggerated body parts, cartoons always make us react, be it to laugh, to move us or to get angry. Find…
Start drawing a comic from its characters, storyboard, and coloring For starters, keep in mind that most comic book writers are completely self-taught – you don’t need to have taken drawing classes or join a drawing school, although nothing is stopping you! After having worked on the synopsis , a crucial step for the birth of your work, you…
