Eli Anapur

Salzburg

Staff Writer and Editor at Wide Walls Magazine

art historian, writer @widewalls1| doctoral researcher @UniGraz | surviving life one artwork at a time

Featured in: Favicon

widewalls.ch

Articles

Famous Winter Paintings by Modern and Contemporary Artists

3 weeks ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

With the holidays approaching, we have made a list of the famous winter paintings from modern and contemporary artists inspired by the changes in nature the last season of the year is bringing about. While in modern times representation of winter is among the usual topics, in the past such theme was rarely chosen, and was often a backdrop for religious or historical narrative paintings or manuscripts.
Famous Impressionist Paintings You Need to Know About

3 weeks ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

The modern era brought many changes, including the shift in art styles and topics chosen by artists. Writing about the period in his book The Painting of Modern Life, the famous art theorist T. J. Clark defined Impressionist art — characterised by the visible brushstrokes, the disintegration of forms, flatness, and the depiction of light effects — as a representation of the transformation of social class.
Red and Golden Hues - Here Are the Most Famous Autumn Paintings in Art History

3 weeks ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Featured image: Vincent van Gogh, The garden of Saint Paul’s Hospital (‘Leaf-Fall’), 1889, detailA timeless subject in art, autumn has been an inspiration for artists throughout history. While depictions of this colorful season preceding the dark winter changed with time, what remained constant is the atmosphere and emotions autumn provokes, translated by artists into allegorical, realist, symbolic, and even abstract forms.
What Does Proportion Mean in Art and Design

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Contemporary Art • 24 Mar 2025 #Art History #Contemporary Art #Proportion What is the definition of proportion in art? First thing that comes to mind is Golden Ratio, Divine Section, or Golden Proportion – these are some of the terms used to describe one of the most famous examples of proportion in art.
Edward Hopper Paintings You Might Not Know Yet

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

“We are all Edward Hopper paintings now” – proclaimed Guardian critic Jonathan Jones, in a feature from 2020, citing a WhatsApp collection of the American artist’s paintings. Persons in Hopper‘s works are alienated individuals, staring bleakly into empty cityscapes, reflective perhaps of their inner states. Even when shown in groups, like in the famous Nighthawks from 1942, they seem distant from each other, preoccupied with their thoughts, and unable to engage socially.
10 Famous Still Life Artists of the 20th Century

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Representing mundane objects such as bowls, flowers, foodstuffs, and other things found in a common household, was and still is the main preoccupation of still life artists. However, the means, styles, and media in which still life art can be represented vary significantly. In the early 17th century still life became an independent genre in art, but it was considered less important than historical and allegorical representations of the period.
Famous Norman Foster Buildings That Redefined Architecture

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Featured image: Architect Norman Foster, Foster + Partners architecture deisgn, le Viaduc de Millau, Millau (France), 1993-2004. Photo © Ben JohnsonIn the 1960s, the movement to protect our planet was just gaining momentum.
These Are the Most Famous Muses in Art History

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Ancient poets searching for inspiration used to write — Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story… First mentioned in ancient Greek mythology, the Muses were nine sister goddesses, Zeus’ daughters, who were patrons of the arts. They inspired discoveries and creations from art to sciences and were known under the names Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.
Precisionism and Its Influence on Art

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

Precisionism developed in a decade following the end of the World War I, in 1920s America. Its short time span of slightly over ten years – until the early ‘30s – does not, however, undermine its significance in modern art world. Being considered the first autochthone art style developed in the US, it nonetheless holds stylistic connection with European Modernism and styles developed by historical avant-gardes.
Everything You Need To Know About Rodin's "The Thinker"

1 month ago | blog.artsper.com | Eli Anapur

When French artist Auguste Rodin made a bronze figure of a thinking man for his famous composition, The Gates of Hell, he could not have possibly imagined the level of popularity the piece would have in the following years and decades. Measuring around 70 cm and destined to crown a tympanum of the bronze composition, The Thinker, originally titled The Poet, depicts a naked, seated man with tensed muscles and engrossed in thoughts.