Vincent Van Gogh
(given name Vincent Willem van Gogh)
Dutch painter (1853–1890)
He was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who also worked in France and is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
In just over a decade he created approximately 2100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life.
Paul Klee
Swiss artist (1879-1940)
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
Georges Seurat
French painter (1859-1891)
Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting technique known as pointillism (dots of paint, letting the eye mix the colors) and chromoluminarism. For his drawings on paper, he used conté crayon on a rough paper surface.
René Magritte
(given name: René François Ghislain Magritte)
A Belgian artist known for his surrealism. His depictions of familiar objects in unfamiliar, unexpected contexts, often provoked questions about the nature and boundaries of reality and representation.
Salvadore Dali
(given name: Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol)
Salvador Dalí was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and striking/bizarre images in his work. He was a showman who loved attention.
Spanish (1904-1989)
Camille Pissarro
(given name: Jacob Abraham Camille Pissarro)
He was a Danish-French painter born on the island of St. Thomas. His technique was more precise than most impressionist artists, and his importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism.
Danish-French painter (1830—1903)
Paul Cézanne
French painter (1839–1906)
Paul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work introduced new modes of representation and influenced avant-garde artistic movements of the early 20th century.
Often called the “Father of Modern Art”.
Pierre Bonnard
French (1867 – 1947)
He was a French painter, illustrator, and printmaker, known especially for the stylized, almost decorative quality of his paintings and color.
A founding member of “Les Nabis”, a Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters, his early work was strongly influenced by Paul Gauguin, as well as the prints of Hokusai and other Japanese artists.
Edvard Munch
Norwegian painter (1863–1944)
His 1893 work, “The Scream”, has become one of Western art’s most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement, and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
After 1906 he wanted to be known as Piet Mondrian. He was Dutch and an art theoretician (conceptual artist). Part of the De Stijl art movement and group, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
(given name: Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa)
French painter and illustrator (1864–1901)
Marc Chagall
A Russian artist working in France. His subject matter often dealt with relationships and Judaism. He was an early modernist, associated with several major artistic styles, and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries, and fine art prints.
(1887 – 1985) Born near Vitebsk in the Russian Empire and died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France)
Berthe Morisot
(Given name: Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot)
(1841 -1895)
She was a Parisian painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris curated by the government and judged by Academicians. in 1874, she joined the “rejected” Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions. Morisot went on to participate in all but one of the following eight impressionist exhibitions.
Morisot married Eugène Manet, the brother of her colleague Édouard Manet.
(1841 – 1895)
Piet Mondrian
(Given name: Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan)
Dutch painter (1872–1944)
Gustav Klimt
Austrian symbolist painter (1862-1918)
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d’art. Klimt’s primary subject was the female body, and his works are marked by a frank eroticism.
Klimt was most influenced by the flatness and patterns of Japanese art. He achieved late success with the paintings of his “golden phase”, many of which included gold leaf. Klimt was an important influence on his younger peer Egon Schiele.
Since the 1990s, he has been one of the artists whose paintings fetch top prices at auctions. His large Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, sold for $135,000,000.oo.
Édouard Manet
He was a French modernist painter, one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. He worked in Paris.
(1832 – 1883)
Paul Gauguin
(Given name: Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin)
He was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that was distinct from Impressionism. He worked in Paris, lived for a short while with Van Gogh in Arles, but could not tolerate his eccentricities, and most notably Gauguin spent ten years living and working in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia (Tahiti).
(1848 – 1903)
Edgar Degas
French Impressionist artist (1834–1917)
Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced sculptures, prints, and drawings. Degas is especially identified with the subject of ballet; more than half of his works depict ballet dancers.
Claude Monet
(Given name: Oscar-Claude Monet)
He was a French painter, the founder of impressionist painting when a critic defined his painting as nothing more than an impression. He was a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it, with soft edges, individual brush strokes left untouched, and vivid colors.
French painter (1840–1926)
Pablo Picasso
(given name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso)
Spanish painter and sculptor who spent most of his adult life in France.
(1881–1973)
Henri Matisse
(given name: Henri Émile Benoît Matisse)
A French visual artist/painter, known for both his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship, cut paper, and fresh new art.
(1869 – 1954)
Amedeo Modigliani
(given name: Amedeo Clemente Modigliani)
Italian painter and sculptor (1884–1920)
He was an Italian painter and sculptor who worked mainly in France, known for portraits and nudes in a modern style characterized by a surreal elongation of faces, necks, and figures. His art was not received well during his lifetime, but later became much sought-after
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French painter and sculptor (1841–1919)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that “Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau
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