Art is human activity or a product of human activity which has the goal to stimulate human senses as well as human mind and spirit, with the intention to transfer emotion and ideas. Quality of work of art is usually estimated based on the amount of stimulation it causes-impression it leaves on people, and effect or influence which that piece leaves or have left in the past.
. Most works of art that are generally considered master pieces own these attributes. Desire to convey emotions and feelings through art had appeared since cave man. Today these pieces we are watching with the same enthusiasm as many modern works of art from top masters. Because of its exquisite value in the last couple of years, we are witnesses to often THEFT OF WORKS OF ART which bring great profit to their principals. Often happens that the author get prevented from their work by some event or circumstance, so that those works of art remain unfinished due to circumstances. Precisely about such works that came from the hands of large artist and were never finished is this attachment about.
10KUBLA KHAN
In 1797 poet Samuel Coleridge fell into a laudanum-induced fantastical dream. When he awoke he wrote down 50 lines of poetry, before attending to a guest and forever forgetting his vision.
09NAPOLEON
Stanley Kubrick began work on an epic biography with Jack Nicholson as Bonaparte starring alongside a proposed 50.000 extras. After two years of work the studios pulled funding.
08GEORGE WASHINFTON – PORTRAIT
Gilbert Stuart is the painter behind the portrait seen on the 1 billion dollars. The original portrait was never finished so Stuart was free to make copies to sell on for 100 dollar each.
07GRAN CAVALLO
Da Vinci spent 12 years working on a horse statue for the Duke of Milan. Before it could be cast, war broke out and the 200.000lbs (90 kg) of metal set aside was used to build cannons instead.
06REQUIEM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in 1791, leaving an unfinished funeral requiem commissioned by a mysterious stranger. T was finished by his student.
05THE CANTERBURY TALES
Chaucer was to have each pilgrim tell č stories – 120 together. When Chaucer died in 1400 only ěč had been written.
04THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
Charles Dickens´s last novel, unfinished at the time of his death. The mystery of Drood´s disappearance remains unanswered, as the ending is incomplete.
03FIRST RAYS OF THE NEW RISING SUN
An attempt to recreate the album Jimi Hendrix was working on when he died. It consists of a mixture of tracks that were near completion and others that were in early draft stages.
02UNFINISHED PORTRAIT OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
1943, Elizabeth Shoumatoff was working on a portrait of the president when he complained of a “terrific pain”. He fell unconscious and died later that day. The painting was never finished.
01TINTIN AND ALPH-ART
The last “The adventures of Tintin” comic album was unfinished at artist Herge´s death. The avant-garde departure from other Tintin stories has had several “pirate editions”, finished by unofficial Tintin artists.
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