Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement’s philosophy of expressing one’s perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. Born: November 14, 1840, Rue Laffitte, Paris, France Died: December 5, 1926, Giverny, France Monet grew up in Le Havre where, in […]
Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France. Born: October 25, 1881, Málaga, Spain Died: April 8, 1973, Mougins, France Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881, in Málaga, Spain. The son of an academic painter, José Ruiz Blanco,
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a major Post-Impressionist painter. A Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. Born: March 30, 1853, Zundert, Netherlands Died: July 29, 1890, Auvers-sur-Oise, France Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch painter whose formal distortions and humanistic concerns made him a principal forerunner of 20th-century expressionism. Born
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Born: February 25, 1841, Limoges, France Died: December 3, 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France Renoir was born in Limoges in 1841 and moved to Paris in 1845. He was apprenticed as a decorator in a porcelain factory at the
Georgia Totto O’Keeffe was an American artist. Born near Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, O’Keeffe first came to the attention of the New York art community in 1916. Born: November 15, 1887, Sun Prairie, WI Died: March 6, 1986, Santa Fe, NM Among the great American artists of the 20th-century, Georgia O’Keeffe stands as one of the
Norman Perceval Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Born: February 3, 1894, Manhattan, New York City, NY Died: November 8, 1978, Stockbridge, MA Picture a nation of patriotic citizens unencumbered by want or fear, free to
Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse was a French artist, known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. Born: December 31, 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France Died: November 3, 1954, Nice, France Henri Matisse worked as a law clerk in Paris before
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) is one of the most celebrated photographers of all time. His images of the American landscape, and especially those of the American West, are familiar to millions. Born and raised in San Francisco, Adams studied music as a youth with the hope of becoming a concert pianist. At age 14, while on
The Yellow Christ (Le Christ jaune) 1889, oil on canvas. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA We Shall Not Go to the Market Today (1892) This picture nicely illustrates Gauguin’s preoccupation with motives of ancient Egyptian art. On display in the Kunstmuseum, Basel. Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are
Thomas Copperthwaite Eakins Painter Born: July 25, 1844, Philadelphia, PA Died: June 25, 1916 Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins was an American realist painter, photographer, sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important artists in American art history. “I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom
Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), the son of a banker in Aix-en-Provence, studied law before devoting himself to painting. He arrived in Paris in 1861 to study at the Académie Suisse, and became involved, with his childhood friend and writer Émile Zola, in the creative revolution directed at the conservative art world. He participated in
The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the Goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a full grown woman, arriving at the sea-shore (Venus Anadyomene motif). The painting is currently in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This large picture by Botticelli may have been, like the Primavera, painted for
Paintings in color includes paintings by artist: Antoine Watteau, Hubert Robert, Louis Le Nain, Francois Clouet, Sebastien Bourdon and others. 43 pages from 1959 Staple-bound booklet edition of French Painting of the 16th-18th Centuries by Hereward Lester Cooke from The National Gallery of Art Washington DC/ Smithsonian Institution.
