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Norwegians love Claude Monet! The 10 best selling paintings of 2010
Norwegians love Claude Monet! The 10 best selling paintings of 2010
Paintings at some instant, either subconsciously or not, are capable of invoking our feelings and emotions.
Oslo,
Norway,
Norway
(prbd.net)
06/01/2011
2010 is now history, and here are the paintings Norwegian art lovers love:
1) Claude Monet - Woman with a Parasol
( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Claude Monet has done it this year also. This is the second time in a row he tops the best selling list. This piece is one of the most famous paintings of Monet's early impressionist works.
2) Albert Bierstadt - Among the Bernese Alps
The landscape painting of the famous American painter is the second best selling painting of 2010. Norwegians can't get enough of Bierstadt. This German-American painter is best known for his large landscapes of the American West.
3) Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night
This modern painting by ( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Vincent van Gogh hits the third place in best selling record. What makes the Starry Night venerable is the painting creates a pleasurable and lively environment to look at. Although the features are exaggerated, it describes a scene that anyone can relate with and wish to be at. Van Gogh painted Starry Night while in an Asylum at Saint-Remy in 1889.
4) Vincent van Gogh - Crows over Wheatfield
Well it is again Vincent van Gogh taking the consecutive place with his estimable painting, Crows over Wheatfield. A usual construal of this painting is that it shows Van Gogh's state of mind with a dark, forbidding sky, the uncertainty of three paths going in different directions and the black crows overhead being signs of threatening.
5) Gustav Klimt - Tree of Life
Gustav Klimt’s Tree of Life gets fifth place in the best selling list. This Austrian Symbolist Painter in this painting describes an important symbol almost in every culture. With the branches of the tree reaching into the sky and roots deep in the earth, the painting dwells in three worlds: a link between heaven, the earth and the underworld uniting above and below.
6) William-Adolphe Bouguereau - Child Braiding a Crown
William-Adolphe Bouguereau was well renowned as both traditional and modern painter in his period. His Child Braiding a Crown painting takes the sixth place among the top ten best selling paintings list. Here in this painting the innocence of a girl child is portrayed which has made Norwegians to rate it among the top ten paintings list.
7) Vincent van Gogh - Cafe Terrace at Night
It is Vincent van Gogh for the third time. His Café Terrace at Night takes the seventh place in the best selling paintings list. His paintings include some of the world's best known, most popular and most expensive pieces. This painting signifies the exterior view of a night café terrace.
8) Vincent van Gogh - The bedroom in Arles
Norwegians are well again not enough with Vincent van Gogh. His extraordinary paintings speak that he truly deserve to get the recognition as the most popular and successful artist of his century. In this painting, The bedroom in Arles, he has portrayed a typical bedroom in the Arles city in the 19th century.
9) Albert Bierstadt - Bavarian Landscape
Well it is the second time Albert ( http://www.aspektkunst.no/maleri ) Bierstadt. Here in this painting too, he has painted the stunning look of Bavarian landscape. Norwegians who are very much fond of nature would extremely prefer Albert Bierstadt’s paintings.
10) Claude Monet – Argenteuil
If it is Claude Monet’s, ‘Woman with a Parasol’ that takes the number one position this year, it his ‘Argenteuil’ getting the last position too. In this painting he has portrayed his days at his native, Argenteuil.
About Aspektkunst.no:
Aspektkunst.no is an online store with a wide selection of paintings that are mostly hand painted and of the highest quality. You can upload your photos which would be painted by the expert artists at Aspektkunst. You can also purchase paintings of world renowned artists like Claude Monet, Albert Bierstadt, Vincent van Gogh and more from Aspektkunst.
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Aspektkunst.no is an online store with a wide selection of paintings that are mostly hand painted and of the highest quality. You can upload your photos which would be painted by the expert artists at Aspektkunst. You can also purchase paintings of world renowned artists like Claude Monet, Albert Bierstadt, Vincent van Gogh and more from Aspektkunst.
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