Charcoal Drawings of the Masters
Michelangelo Buonarroti 1475-1564 Italian An Italian artist from the Renaissance era. Probably best known by his works for the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo's great anatomical knowledge and the mastery of the human form is present in his magnificent charcoal drawings. His drawings are very refined with beautiful line qualities wrapping around the forms of the figure. He always dedicated his art to god, and it shows in his works.
Leonardo Da Vinci 1452-1519 Italian Leonardo Da Vinci is known for his portrait of Mona Lisa. While being considered as one of the greatest painters that have ever lived, he was also an engineer, a mathematician, a botanist, a musician, and an architect. His superb inventions were the results of his endless curiosities. Many would describe him to be a superhuman as well as a great mystery.
Thomas Eakins 1844-1916 American Thomas Eakins is regarded as one of the prominent painter in the history of American Art. His portraits are known for its psychological aspects and personalities of the sitters, along with the accurate likenesses. He lived most of his life in Philadelphia and was an important art educator at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. His charcoal drawings display great knowledge of the human form and anatomy, as he took great importance on that field, even considering a career as a surgeon at one time. Despite his great talent and teaching expertise, Eakins lived an unsuccessful life due to negative scandals and controversies cause by his odd behaviors involving women and his different views on art. He was only acknowledged for his great works after his death.
Ted Seth Jacobs ?-present American Ted Seth Jacobs is considered to be one of the most skilled living draughtsman. He has dedicated himself professionally in the field of realist art for more than 60 years. He is the author of "Light for the Artist(1985) and "Drawing with an Open Mind(1985). He is a co-founder of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, NY, and the New York Academy of Art. He currently teaches at the Ecole Albert Defois Vihiers in France, a school he founded in 1987. He is one of the few contemporary realists who does not rely on measuring methods such as sight size, but focuses mostly on training ones eye to see and observe.
Gustav Klimt 1862-1918 Austrian was a prominent painter during his time dominating the art scene of Vienna Art Nouveau. He is known for his depiction of female subjects, often subject to eroticism. He has made countless beautiful drawings and sketches of women whom he had great passions for
John Singer Sargent 1856-1955 American was a very successful painter during his era. Not many other artists met the caliber of Sargent. He has created over 900 oil paintings as well as over 2,000 watercolor sketches. He was thoroughly trained in the academic fashion and possessed an incomparable technical skill. He was apparently a natural born talent ever since young, but also had an early solid training in the foundation of representational art due to his very supportive parents who noticed his talents early. One can witness the remarkable touch and the amazing draughtsmanship of Sargent in all of his charcoal drawings
Valentin Serov 1865-1911 Russian A student of Ilya Repin, he was one of the greatest portrait painters during his time. Like Repin, his charcoal drawings and paintings possessed the sculptural effect, with lifelike three-dimensional qualities to them. He has done exceptionally beautiful sketches that are very loose and spontaneous. A young Serov first has been influened by the realistic paintings of Ilya Repin, which led him to eventually pursue art. He was known for capturing the psychological aspects of his sitters which were largely musicians, artists and writers.
is a graduate of Columbia University, New York, NY, a prolific painter and draughtsman. He is defined as a Contemporary American Realist. His works are described to have the textile-like textures. Silverman's great technical craftsmanship and artistry is apparent in all his charcoal drawings and paintings. His works have appeared in the New Yorker and the TIME magazine. Burton Silverman currently resides in New York City.
Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009 American Most celebrated realist artist in the 20s century, Andrew Wyeth is referred to as "Painter of the People" for his great popularity. His realistic representational works were criticized as the art world was being dominate by abstractions, but his admirers argue that his works have underlying abstraction as well. He catured the people and environments of his home in Pennsylvalnia as well as Maine, illustrating the emotional symbolic contents as well.
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