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Appreciating Diego Velasquez—a True Master Artist
There are a number of techniques to express our emotion one of which is through art, although painting is not just brush strokes on a canvas; painting has various forms and styles. Painting can convey a lot of ideas, depending on what message the painter wants to make known; the piece may be from an emotion, a symbolism, political agenda or even be with narrative content.
Not all countries are fortunate to have a vast and rare collection of exceptional paintings like Spain; its museums are known to house numerous historical artifacts and thousands of paintings that are considered to be great works in the world of painting. If you are an fan of pieces art then the country to travel to is Spain because there are a lot of museums that contains some masterpieces and a vast number of different works of art and artifacts. These days, learning about the culture of Spain can be made easy through online resources that give out language and culture lessons such as Rocket Spanish; this website even offers free basic language and culture lessons which anybody can take advantage of. Rocket Spanish is a Computer Assisted Language Learning that can help you speak Spanish fluently.
Some of Spanish painters have been known throughout its history, especially during the time of El Siglo de Oro or Spain’s Golden Age; most of its brilliant painters emerged during that time. One such popular artist which the world identified as a master in this area of art is Diego Velasquez. King Philip IV and his chief minister are only a few of the powerful friends Velasquez has; he made artworks for the royal family and to people with position and high nobility, showcasing his style and skills in all his works.
Coming from little nobility, Diego Velasquez was given life in Seville in June 5, 1599 and he was the eldest of six children. At the age of eleven he began studying painting under the teaching of master painter Francisco Pacheco, and when he reached the age of eighteen years old, the painter’s guild certified Velasquez as a master painter that permitted him to work as a professional painter. Eventually, Diego Velasquez fell in love with his master’s daughter and married her; he settled down in a house he bought through the money he made in his paintings and he also bought another house which he rented out to tenants.
Diego Velasquez produced plenty of exceptional paintings that made him famous and an example of the country’s most influential personalities. One of most popular paintings that came alive under his brush was The Surrender of Breda which he created after meeting the great Marques de Spinola; Spinola was in awe after seeing the details of The Surrender of Breda, wondering at Diego Velasquez’s talent to translate such emotions and realism through his brush strokes. However, Diego Velasquez would create another masterpiece that is regarded the greatest piece he has made which is Las Meninas or TheMaids in Honour; it is the most viewed painting in the world and even most people that are not familiar with Spanish painters knew his name because of Las Meninas.
Diego Velasquez can really be identified as one of Spain’s national pride because of the popularity of the paintings that he created and the impact it made on painting as an art form.
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