ART INSPIRES ART #14 – La Gioconda

Leonardo da Vinci: “La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)”. Oil on wood, 1503 – 1506, Museum of the Louvre, Paris (above).

Werner Horvath: “My Mona Lisa”. Oil on canvas, 1994 (below).

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ART INSPIRES ART #13 – Heraclitus

Head if the so called “Heraclitus Statue”. National Museu,m, Iraklion (above).

Werner Horvath: “Heraclitus of Ephesus – Panta rhei”. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #12 – Dali again

Salvador Dali: “Sleep”. Oil on canvas, 1937 (above).

Werner Horvath: “Salvador Dali”. Oil on canvas, 1997 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #11 – Michelangelo

Michelangelo: “David”. Marble statue, 1501 – 04, Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence (above). David’s eyes look towards Rome.

Werner Horvath: “Michelangelo and his David”. Oil on canvas, 1995 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #10 – Stalin

Aleksandr Laktionov: “Stalin”. Oil on canvas, 1949, Collection Horvath, Austria (above).

Werner Horvath: “Bloody Stalin”. Oil on canvas, 2002 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #9 – Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali: “Fried Egg on the Plate without the Plate”, 1932 (above).

Werner Horvath: “Deeply frightened Salvador Dali”. Oil on canvas, 2000 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #8 – Marc Aurel

Bust of Marc Aurel, Glyptothek, Munich (above).

Werner Horvath: “Marc Aurel – Triumph and Death”. Oil and actylic on canvas, 2008.

ART INSPIRES ART #7 – Democritus

Democritus on the old Greek 100 Drachmas bank note (above).

Werner Horvath: “Democritus”. Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012.

ART INSPIRES ART #6 – Lenin

Alexej Nesterenko: “Lenin”. Oil on canvas, 1938. Collection Horvath, Austria (above).

Werner Horvath: “Lein with Covered Eyes”. Oil on canvas, 1999 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #5 – Voltaire

Salvador Dali: “Slave Market with Disappearing Bust of Voltaire”. Oil on canvas, 1940 (above).

Werner Horvath: “Voltaire”. Oil on canvas, 2005 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #4 – Pythagoras

Bust of Pythagoras of Samos in the Capitoline Museums, Rome (above).

“Pythagoras of Samos”, oil and acrylic on canvas, 2012 by Werner Horvath (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #3 – Karl Marx

Aleksandr Kryöov: “Karl Marx”. Oil on canvas, appr. 1950, Collection Horvath, Austria (above).

Werner Horvath: “Karl Marx”. oil on canvas, 1997 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #2 – Albrecht Duerer

Albrecht Duerer: “Self-Portrait with Landscape”. Oil on wood, 1498, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (above).

Werber Horvath: “Remembering Albrecht Duerer”. Oil on canvas, 2004 (below).

ART INSPIRES ART #1 – Nike of Samothrace

“Nike of Samothrace” – Original in the Louvre (above).

Werner Horvath: “Bed of Roses – Nike of Samothrace”. Oil and acrylic on canvas (below).

Lay down your arms! – The whole painting – Bertha von Suttner

Portrait of the young Bertha von Suttner by Austrian artist Werner Horvath. Oil on canvas, 2014.

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