Artist of the Week | Clear Cut History

Art is the manifestation of culture, and in a lot of ways history is the study of cultures. So, art and history are inseparable. If you want to know about one you'll have to know about the other. And thus was born Artist of the Week, in which I'll take an artist that's peaked my fancy, pick three of his most notable works, and dive into the analytics and significance. Interesting, easy, and free. As E. M. Forster said, "History develops, art stands still."

Eugéne

Delacroix

Don't let the accent in his name scare you into thinking he's an impossibly sophisticated French dude. He's not, but he is the founding père of French Romanticism

Jacques

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Louis

David

Hey, you, do you like classical art but hate marble? Well try neo-classicalism! Classicalism got a contract for a second season, and this time it's all paintings!

Michelangelo

The Harbinger of Humanism. The Renaissance Radical. The Painter of Popes. He goes by many names. But you and I know him as Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni.