Art Belongs to People by Õp. Ivika https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8 Look for a famous painting to describe (2 minutes of speaking time), upload it on the wall. For the title write who it was chosen by (PS! Make sure you don't pick the same paintig with someone else!). In addition, look up 5 - 6 sentences about the author of the painting and add them to your post. PS! While you practice your decriptions, time yourself! You think you speak for 2 minutes, but often you are done in about 1 minute. Don't forget to use the most common phrases of picture describing given in the book (page 30). If you have long pauses, hesitation or elongated speech - it will not help you in getting a better mark. Speaking for 2 minutes is just as important as a fluent and well-organised speech. en-us 2017-12-01 07:10:14 UTC 2025-11-24 21:47:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Apple.png Chosen by teacher Ivika ivika1 https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/212732137 A painting called "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dali.  He was a Spanish painter and represented surrealism in his style. His personality was as odd as his paintings - he was a showman and liked extreme measures to become memorable to others. Once he gave a full lecture wearing a deep-sea diving suit! He got inspiration for his paintings from a half-asleep state of mind.]]> 2017-12-04 08:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/212732137 Chosen by student Kirte Pärila. https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213065637 "Lionel Line steam train stops at Lionelville at Christmas"by Thomas Kinkade. William Thomas Kinkade III (January 19, 1958 – April 6, 2012) was an American painter of popular realistic, pastoral, and idyllic subjects.Recurring features of Kinkade's paintings are their glowing highlights and pastel colors.Kinkade believed he gained his inspiration from his religious beliefs and that his work was intended to contain a larger moral dimension.]]> 2017-12-04 20:22:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213065637 Chosen by Andreas Sepp. https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213261244 A painting called "

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" by Nicolaes Tulp

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp is a 1632 oil painting on canvas by Rembrandt housed in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, the Netherlands. The painting is regarded as one of Rembrandt's early masterpieces.

]]> 2017-12-05 13:17:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213261244 Chosen by Merily Renate https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213291223 The Starry Night is an oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh. Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853 to July 29, 1890) was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and color, highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France at age 37 from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.]]> 2017-12-05 14:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213291223 Chosen by Auris Veelmaa https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213294341 The Last Supper is late 15th century mural painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo began work in 1495 and completed it in 1498. Leonardo was Italian painter and scientist. His famous painting are Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Vitruvian Man. He was born in 1452 and he died in 1519.]]> 2017-12-05 14:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213294341 Chosen by Sten https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213464231 Oleg Shupliak (Oleg Shuplyak) (born 23 September 1967 in Bishche) Ukrainian artist living in Berezhanzy. Creates artistic works in the current optical illusion, best known for imaginative portrait heads named Hidden Images. ]]> 2017-12-05 19:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213464231 Chosen by Hardi Raukas https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213472133 ''A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'' painted in 1884, is one of Georges Seurat's most famous works. Georges-Pierre Seurat was born 2 December 1859 in Paris. Seurat died in Paris in his parents' home on 29 March 1891 at the age of 31.]]> 2017-12-05 19:27:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213472133 Chosen by Gerli https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213479247 Cafe Terrace at Night is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum. It's an oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting is not signed, but described and mentioned by the artist in three letters.]]> 2017-12-05 19:41:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213479247 Chosen by Ako Alvela https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213496453 The Hay Harvest (also known as Haymaking), is an oil on wood painting created by Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569), in 1565. The most important of the Lobkowiczes' Northern pictures, it was hung in the dining room of the Antwerp merchant Niclaes Jongelink. This picture was originally part of a series of six panels, each presumed to represent two months of the year – in this case June and July.

]]> 2017-12-05 20:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213496453 Chosen by Anett Ermel https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213497177  Robert Ricart is known for his exquisite paintings of Parisian streets and cafes.  He studied at the Etudes Arts Graphiques and the Beau Arts School in Paris. His paintings can be seen in private collections in Europe and the United States.  His paintings are also in museums at Saumur, Bordeaux, Cholet, and Rennes. ]]> 2017-12-05 20:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/213497177 Chosen by Karita https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/214305458 Painted in 1903 by C.M. Coolidge, this painting has 16 images of dogs sitting around a poker table and playing cards. This painting was an iconic depiction of Americans during the early part of 19th century.]]> 2017-12-07 19:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/214305458 Photo chosen by student Marie https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217357473 Rowena Meeks Abdy was an American modernist painter.She primarily painted landscapes and worked in Northern California.She was born in Vienna,Austria, in 1878 to American parents, John and Anna Meeks, who compensated for Rowena's deformed leg by encouraging her natural talent in art.After prolonged stays in Vienna, Dresden, Paris, and London the family moved to San Francisco, California, in the 1890s.For the academic year 1904-05 Abdy studied under the tonalist painters Arthur Frank Mathews, Charles C.Judson, and Will sparks at the California School of Design in the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, where she was awarded an honorable mention for drawing.She died in 1945 when she was 58 years old, in San Francisco.]]> 2017-12-19 19:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217357473 Paula-Maria https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217376888 Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. Van Gogh was unsuccessful during his lifetime. He was considered a madman and a failure. He became famous after his suicide, and exists in the public imagination as the quintessential misunderstood genius, the artist "where discourses on madness and creativity converge".]]> 2017-12-19 20:53:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217376888 Chosen by Istvan https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424356 This painting by Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel shows man’s indifference to the suffering of his fellowmen. It is a powerful theme shown in a rather simple way with Icarus, the Greek character suffering under water and people going on with their work.]]> 2017-12-20 07:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424356 Chosen by Robin Sokolov https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424802  The Death of Socrates (French: La Mort de Socrate) is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting focuses on a classical subject like many of his works from that decade, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo. ]]> 2017-12-20 08:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424802 Chosen by Aleksandr https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424891 2017-12-20 08:03:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217424891 Chosen by Merily https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425111 2017-12-20 08:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425111 Chosen by Hanna-Britt https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425123
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette by Edward Renoir.  This painting is arguably Renoir’s most famous work, depicting a lively and energetic atmosphere in a Parisian dance garden, the Moulin de la Galette. 
]]> 2017-12-20 08:05:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425123 Kristi Auu ivika1 https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425344 2017-12-20 08:07:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425344 Chosen by Annabel https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425415 The Surrender of Breda (1634-1635).  The Surrender of Breda, alternatively known as The Lances, is Velázquez’s only surviving work with a historical subject matter. The painting was a royal commission, and it depicts Spanish general Ambrogio Spinola’s victory over the Dutch town of Breda in 1625. ]]> 2017-12-20 08:08:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217425415 Chosen by Carl https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217527198 The Hunters in the Snow (Dutch: Jagers in de Sneeuw), also known as The Return of the Hunters, is a 1565 oil-on-wood painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The Northern Renaissance work is one of a series of works, five of which still survive, that depict different times of the year. The painting is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria. This scene is set in the depths of winter during December/January.]]> 2017-12-20 16:08:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/217527198 Chosen by Hanna https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302836665 The Arnolfini Marriage created by Jan van Eyck.The painting is one of the oldes preserved ones dating back to 1434. In the picture are the Italian businessman Giovanni Arnolfini and his pregnant wife in their home in the city of Bruges.This painting are located in the National Gallery in London.

]]> 2018-11-10 09:26:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302836665 Chosen by Jaakob https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302954719 The Night Watch created by Rembrandt van Rjin. The painting was created in 1642 and its famous for two things : its huge size 363x437cm its dramatic use of light and shadow. The Night Watch is located in Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.]]> 2018-11-11 09:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302954719 Chosen by Margit https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302958439 The Night Cafe was created by Vincent von Gogh in September 1888.He did it in city called Arles.The painting is in Yale University right now. Von Vincent painted the picture with oil paints. The size of painting is 72cm*92cm.The Author have said that he tried to express the terrible passions of humanity by means of red and green in the painting.This painting is one of the most famous of Von Gogh’s paintings.]]> 2018-11-11 10:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302958439 Chosen by Mileene https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302974228 Starry Night Over the Rhône is one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings of Arles at nighttime.Vincent van Gogh is deservedly famous for the series of starry sky paintings he produced in Arles in 1888.
As an artist, Vincent Van Gogh was prone to painting places and locations that had personal meaning and were familiar to him.”Starry Night Over the Rhone" is now a collection of Muśee d’Orsay.
]]> 2018-11-11 12:52:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302974228 Chosen by Aleksandra https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302984081 The ninth wave is an oil painting by Ivan Aivazovsky.
It's his best-known work. It was created in 1850.
Currently the painting is kept in State Russian Museum. ]]> 2018-11-11 14:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302984081 Chosen by Sander https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302986717 Painting Autumn Belarusian artist Leonid Afremov.
The painting show bright colors, energy and optimism.
Noteworthy, paintings by Leonid Afremov have positive effect on the psyche and relieve stress, according to psychologists and psychiatrists.
That’s why some people even use his pictures in therapy.
Currently, Leonid lives in one of the beautiful resort towns in Florida.
Undoubtedly, autumn, the most spiritual and inspirational season of the year, inspires talented poets, writers and artists.
Leonid Afremov paintings are usually sad, friendly and beautiful.
Afremov graduated from the famous art school in Vitebsk, where studied such artists as Kandinsky and Malevich.
Interestingly, he paints his pictures without using a brush.
Leonid Afremov went to Vitebski art school until 1978.
Leonid Afremov ®(born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils.
He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists.
Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.
Before the advancement of online sales and eBay, Afremov was a struggling artist.
He lived in Vitebski, Belarusian until 1990.
Between 1990 and 2002 he lived in Israel, and from 2002 to 2010 in Boca Raton, Florida.
Afremov currently resides in the popular resort town Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Cancun.
He paints mainly landscape, city scenes, seascapes, flowers and portraits.
Most of his work is considered very colorful and politically neutraal.]]> 2018-11-11 14:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302986717 Chosen by Egor https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302997991 Sandro Botticelli,1484-1486
 Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus was the first full-length, non-religious nude since antiquity, and was made for Lorenzo de Medici. It’s claimed that the figure of the Goddess of Love is modeled after one Simonetta Cattaneo Vespucci, whose favors were allegedly shared by Lorenzo and his younger brother, Giuliano. Venus is seen being blown ashore on a giant clamshell by the wind gods Zephyrus and Aura as the personification of spring awaits on land with a cloak. Unsurprisingly, Venus attracted the ire of Savonarola, the Dominican monk who led a fundamentalist crackdown on the secular tastes of the Florentines. His campaign included the infamous “Bonfire of the Vanities” of 1497, in which “profane” objects—cosmetics, artworks, books—were burned on a pyre. The Birth of Venus was itself scheduled for incineration, but somehow escaped destruction. Botticelli, though, was so freaked out by the incident that he gave up painting for a while. ]]> 2018-11-11 16:04:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/302997991 Chosen by Marti https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303010105 The Son of a Man
 Artist | René Magritte
Magritte painted it as a self-portrait. The painting consists of a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a low wall, beyond which are the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hoveringgreen apple. However, the man's eyes can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple. Another subtle feature is that the man's left arm appears to bend backwards at the elbow. ]]> 2018-11-11 17:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303010105 Mia https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303024334 Mona Lisa
“Mona Lisa” (La Giocanda) is Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting, what is painted in 1503-1519. At the moment it is located in Paris, at Louvre’s. It is said that it’s the most known painting.
In the picture is presented a rich silk merchandise and the carpenters Francesco del Giocondos wife Lisa del Giocondo.
The picture is painted with oil paint, on a canvas made of poplar tree.
At this moment is “Mona Lisa” exhibited at Louvre’s, behind a bulletproof glass.
In 1956 acid was thrown on the painting and also the painting was thrown with rocks. In neither situtations the “Mona Lisa” wasn’t damaged much....

]]> 2018-11-11 18:42:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303024334 Chosen by Rico https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303025362 A Bold Bluff
Cassius Marcellus Coolidge was born in September 18,1844 and died in January 13,1934. C.M.Coolidge was mostly known for his series of painting Dogs Playing Poker.Dogs Playing Poker was a 1903 series of 16 oil paintings. It was comissioned by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars. ]]> 2018-11-11 18:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303025362 Chosen by Johanna https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303037578 Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, from around 1489-1490. Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian polymath.  Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine is one of the most important works in all of Western art. It's located in the main branch of Kraków’s National Museum.  Unfortunately, the original background has been overlaid probably in the 17th century. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani.]]> 2018-11-11 20:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303037578 Kadi https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303038678 "Guernica" (Picasso)
This painting is painted by Pablo Picasso.This painting was complited in June 1937  at his home on Rue des Grands Augustins, in Paris. The painting was created in response to the bombing of Guernica. The painting became famous and widely acclaimed, and it helped bring worldwide attention to the Spanish Civil War.]]> 2018-11-11 20:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303038678 Chosen by Eva-Liisa https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303058224 The Ladies-in-waiting
"The Ladies-in-waiting" aka "Las Meninas" is an oil painting by Spanish painter Diego Velazquez. It was painted in 1656. "Las Meninas" shows a large room in the Madrid palace of King Phillip IV of Spain. Its mysterious composition raises questions about reality and illusion, and creates an uncertain relationship between the viewer and the figures in the painting. The painting hangs in the Museo del Prado in Spain, Madrid.]]> 2018-11-11 22:40:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303058224 C https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303868888 2018-11-13 16:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303868888 Chosen https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303869003 2018-11-13 16:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303869003 Chosen by Hendrik https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303869011 Figure at the window 
 “Figure at the window” aka “Girl at the window”(Figura en una finestra) is an oil painting painted by Salvador Dali (1904-1989) in 1925. He was a Spanish painter and surrealist. Dali's “Figure at the window” is a painting of a woman looking out the window. The landscape behind the window is the bay of Cadaqués, where Dali used to stay in the summer. The focal point of the picture is on the back of the woman, not what she is looking at. The woman  in the picture is Dali's younger sister Ana Maria.

]]> 2018-11-13 16:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303869011 Chosen by Mattias https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303955561 The Storm on the Sea of Galilee
The Storm on the Sea of Galilee is painted by Rembrandt van Rijn in 1633. This painting was stolen from The Isabella Stewart Gardner musem in the morning of March, 18, 1990. This painting is about in the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The painting is referred to in the movie Trans as a stolen painting by Rembrandt. It is Rembrandt´s only seascape.]]> 2018-11-13 18:48:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/303955561 Chosen by Berit https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/304834403 The Ambassadors (1533) is a painting by Hans Holbein the Younger. Also known as Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve,it was created in the Tudor period, in the same year Elizabeth I was born. As well as being a double portrait, the painting contains a still life of several meticulously rendered objects, the meaning of which is the cause of much debate. It also incorporates a much-cited example of anamorphosis in painting. It is part of the collection at the National Gallery in London.]]> 2018-11-15 15:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/304834403 Chosen by Artjom https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/305128793 Remember When by Pino Daeni (1939-2010) became famous as a book illustrator, painting over 3000 book covers. He opened galleries in Naples, Florida and South Korea featuring his work. Future galleries of Pino’s artwork will be opening in Dubai and Shanghai, China.]]> 2018-11-16 06:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/305128793 Chosen by Mette-Marit https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/305665504 The Scream by Edvard Munch is autobiographical, an expressionistic construction based on Munch's actual experience of a scream piercing through nature while on a walk, after his two companions, seen in the background, had left him. ]]> 2018-11-18 15:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/305665504 Chosen by Anette https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/308951493 The Swing, also known as The Happy Accidents of the Swing is an 18th-century oil paiting by Jean- Honore Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the rococo era, and is Fragonard's best known work. ]]> 2018-11-28 18:13:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ivika1/art8/wish/308951493