overstockArt.com Announces Top 10 Most Romantic Oil Painting for Valentine’s Day 2014
Wichita, Kansas (PRWEB) February 11, 2014 -- The popular online art gallery overstockArt.com, published today its annual Top 10 list of most romantic oil paintings for Valentine’s Day. Topping the chart for the first time is Frederic Leighton’s lust-filled masterpiece “The Fisherman and the Syren.” Other artists named on the 2013 Valentine’s Day Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings list include Gustav Klimt, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, August Macke, Amedeo Modigliani, Edouard Manet and Egon Schiele.
The 2014 Top 10 Romantic Oil Paintings according to overstockArt.com’s statistics are:
1. “The Fisherman and the Syren,” Frederic Leighton
2. “The Kiss,” Gustav Klimt
3. “The Swing,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir
4. “Flaming June,” Frederic Leighton
5. “First Kiss,” William-Adolphe Bouguereau
6. “In Bed the Kiss,” Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
7. “Discarded Roses,” Pierre-Auguste Renoir
8. “Promenade,” August Macke
9. “Nude seating on a sofa,” Amedeo Modigliani
10. “Boating,” Edouard Manet
More than 3,500,000 page views to overstockArt.com’s Romantic Art Gallery in the past year were tracked. According to the click tracking, “The Fisherman and the Syren,” was the most sought after painting clicked at nearly nine percent, and Gustav Klimt’s magnum opus “The Kiss” came in a close second, garnering eight percent of the clicks.
The The Fisherman and the Syren was painted by the English Victorian Classical painter, Lord Frederick Leighton between 1856 and 1858. The painting depicts the fatal seduction of a fisherman by a beautiful yet deadly mermaid. The fisherman seems completely transfixed in the moment while the siren clutches to his body as she subdues her prey with passion and lust to submission.
"Artists throughout time have been inspired by love and romance, many of the world’s greatest masterpieces wouldn’t exist without this inspiration," said David Sasson, founder and president of overstockArt.com. “Our Romantic Art Gallery features many of these pieces and is one of our most popular gallery’s throughout the year, particularly in February when we always see a spike in traffic towards Valentine’s Day.”
About overstockArt.com
Founded in 2002, overstockArt.com is one the web’s leading distributors of high-quality wall art. With more than 100,000 wall décor combinations to choose from in stock at all times, the online retailer has one goal: to make it easy and affordable for people to transform their space with hand painted art. Recognized as a premiere shopping destination for hand painted fine art reproductions, overstockArt.com has expanded its offerings to include hand painted and hand carved decorative ceramic tiles and high-quality original canvas art prints. The company also owns and operates Artist Become (ArtistBe.com), the online community for contemporary artists around the world.
overstockArt.com provides decorating assistance, custom framing, commercial decorating services, augmented reality tools to help people visualize the art in their space, and an interactive mobile app for Android, iPad, iPhone and Kindle Fire. Headquartered in Wichita, Kan., the retailer was named to Inc. Magazine’s 2010, 2011 and 2012 Inc. 5000 lists, Internet Retailer magazine’s 2012 Hot 100 list, and 2011, 2012 and 2013 Second 500 Guides, and was recognized with the STELLAService Seal for excellent customer service. For more information, visit http://www.overstockart.com.
Amitai Sasson, overstockArt.com, http://www.overstockart.com/, +1 (316) 633-4408, [email protected]
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