He had influence on European painting, not only in France and Germany but also in Italy and in Spain. Annie Leibovitz, like Weyden used a new style of lighting and bold colors. She is a “portrait photography” photographer. However, different than Weyden’s tendency to pose his models as statues, Leibovitz used unique poses. Leibovitz works consist of amazing, ionic, powerful photographs.
At the age of sixteen Rivera applied for a study grant from the government to go and study in Spain, he was granted it. Two years later he traveled to Paris and Germany. Later he got an interest for renaissance art and traveled to Paris to study it. In 1922 Rivera joined the Mexican Communist party. In 1928 Diego Rivera met Frida Kahlo and were married one year later.
On these journeys he witnessed the indignities suffered by the railroad workers and local Mapuche Indians. By the time he was 14, Ricardo had published his first poems. In a rage his father burned the adolescent’s writings. After that, he would publish under the name of Pablo Neruda: Pablo for Paul Verlaine, his favorite French poet, and Neruda for Jan Neruda, Czech writer. Neruda moved to Chile’s capital Santiago, where he attended university and participated in the anarchist student movement.
At the young age of 18 he was called to the army. He was injured in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during a gas attack. After that he spent most of his time in war training new recruits. He continued his education when the war was finished, and in 1921 earned a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. He was happy that he got into art school at the age of 21 because he said that at the age of 21 he was old enough to know how to get something out of it.
In 1949, Ipoustéguy moved to Choisy-le-Roi and began to work on sculpture. In 1953 he abandoned oil painting for drawing, watercolor, sculpture and writing. After an abstract phase, Ipoustéguy concentrated primarily on the human figure. Ipoustéguy was inspired by Surrealism, social themes as well as erotic motifs and the theme of death continued to be his chief preoccupation. He became a world-renowned artist and was awarded the Bright Prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale and this distinction was followed by others at other exhibitions.
He introduced new techniques in the treatment of materials, such as trencadís, made of waste ceramic pieces. After a few years, under the influence of neo-Gothic art and Oriental techniques, Gaudí became part of the Modernista movement which was reaching its peak in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His work transcended mainstream Modernisme, culminating in an organic style inspired by nature. Gaudí rarely drew detailed plans of his works, instead preferring to create them as three-dimensional scale models and molding the details as he was conceiving them. Gaudí's work enjoys widespread international appeal and many studies are devoted to understanding his architecture.
During a trip to Italy with his father in 1920, Giacometi saw paintings and sculptures which inspired him therefore he studied more in depth in sculpting. All of his early sculptures were all representational but then he started making more abstract pieces. Giacometti had always liked to experiment with different styles and sculpture. He was first influenced by cubism and the art work of Picasso, who he became friends with for a few years in Paris. Then his work started to show the influence of surrealism.
Piet Mondrian was born on March 7, 1872 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands. He was the second child of four; he had two brothers and one sister. His father was Pieter Cornelis Sr, who was a principal of an elementary school and an amateur artist. His father Mondrian Sr, planned for his son to become a drawing teacher so that he would be able to make a living for himself. Piet Mondrian won his licenses and was able to teach at primary and secondary schools, but his heart was set on becoming a painter.
One of the most famous stories from his apprenticeship was when Leonardo was in his early 20s. He was assigned to work with Verrocchio on the Baptism of Christ. He painted the angel holding Jesus; his work was so superior to his master’s that Verrocchio allegedly decided never to paint again. When Leonardo decided to leave the workshop to make his own career, court records from 1476 show us that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy, and then acquitted when no witnesses or victims presented themselves. In 1482 Leonardo found work in the Duke of Milan; he was kept busy painting famous pieces of art, like The Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks.
After Raphael marked the finish of his Perugian period with "Madonna and the Saints," his new works were evidently influenced by Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Masaccio and especially Fra Bartolomeo. When Raphael was invited to decorate some rooms in the Vatican, he painted a fresco named The School of Athens. The painting shows Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Pythagoras and Euclid—the prominent philosophers of ancient Greece. Furthermore, portraits were a particular interest for Raphael, as he painted many of them. Pope Julius II’s portrait was an exclusive piece of art during that era as it displayed him in a pondering mood from the side.