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In 37 prolific years, Raphael’s passionate style blazed a trail of painting throughout the Italian high Renaissance. His skill in presenting his lust for life on to canvas translated into ideals of beauty were breathtakingly new. Raphael is considered to one of the holy trinity of master artists of the Renaissance, along with Da Vinci and Michelangelo...
Cole’s paintings stand as monuments to the dreams and anxieties of the emerging America during the mid-19th century. Born in England Cole emigrated to the USA as a young man and sought to capture the beauty of the American wilderness...
Riley’s paintings implore the viewer to reflect on it feels to look. From the 1960s her work became synonymous with the Op Art movement and exploited optical illusions to make two-dimensional surfaces of painting to seem to move, sparkle and vibrate...
An early work by Sage when she was experimenting with styles and geometric abstractions...
The small pins that pierce Kahlo’s skin reveal that she still hurts following illness and accident with her signature tear revealing the ongoing battle with the subsequent psychological overflow...
Goncharova was an avant-garde artist, painter, writer, costume designer, set designer, and illustrator. Her lifelong partner was the fellow avant-garde artist Mikhail Larionov with whom she invented Rayonism. She was also a member of the German art movement Der Blaue Reiter. She moved to Paris in 1921 where she lived until her death. Her work profoundly influenced the Russian avant-garde...
Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes...
Parmigianino was one of the leading painters of Palma, he also worked in Rome and Bologna. Ranking as one of the most compelling artists with a daring and readiness to confront the orthodoxies...
Michallon was a prodigiously talented artist who tragically died at the very young age of 25. He was the son of a sculptor and studied under Jacques-Louis David and Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes. In 1817, he won the Prix de Rome for landscape painting. He studied in Italy for two years but died of pneumonia before he could develop what he had learned....
Remembered as an Impressionist, Degas was part of a group of Paris artists who exhibited together in the 1870s...
Pollock’s reputation as a pre-eminent Abstract Expressionist artist has endured long after his death. In the late 1940s he began to produce the famous drip paintings that represent one of the most original bodies of work of the 20th century with suggestions of the life force of nature and evoking Man’s entrapment in the body, in anxiety, and in the modern world...
Ingres was a painter with a daring blend of tradition and experimentation with which he reimagined Classical and Renaissance sources for 19th century tastes...
By challenging the notion of what is art with his readymades, Duchamp is one of few artists that changed the course of art history. He sent shock waves across the art world that are still rippling today...
Pollock’s reputation as a pre-eminent Abstract Expressionist artist has endured long after his death...
Cole’s paintings stand as monuments to the dreams and anxieties of the emerging America...
Marc had a tumultuous impact on the Expressionist movement that evolved after World War 1. He favoured the symbolic potential of abstraction rather than Naturalism and Realism...
Parmigianino was one of the leading painters of Palma, he also worked in Rome and Bologna. Ranking as one of the most compelling artists with a daring and readiness to confront the orthodoxies of the day Parmigianino was a leading figure of the Mannerist style...
Turrell is an artist primarily focussed on Light and Space. Turrell is an artist primarily concerned with Light and Space...
The Barbizon School was a loose association of artist who worked around the village of Barbizon, near Paris and the Forest of Fontainebleau...
Remembered as an Impressionist, Degas was part of a group of Paris artists who exhibited together in the 1870s...
Chicago was one of the 1970s pioneers of Feminist art that questioned the authority of the male-dominated Western world, seeking to redress the tradition of women in visual arts...
Titian was a painter and regarded as one of the greatest painters of the Renaissance...
By challenging the notion of what is art with his readymades, Duchamp is one of few artists that changed the course of art history...
Matisse is regarded as the greatest colourist of the 20th century and rivalled Picasso in the importance of his innovations...
Rembrandt was a draughtsman, painter, and printmaker. He is considered one of the most important visual artists in history....
Vasarely’s work provides some of the most distinctive images and optical effects of the 20th century...
Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Born: 16 December 1866, Moscow, Russia Nationality: Russian Died: 13 December 1944, Paris, France
Title: The Hay Wain Date: 1821 Movement: Romanticism, Naturalism Media: Oil on canvas Location: The National Gallery, London, UK...
Artist: Franz Radziwill Date of Birth: 6 February 1895, Stadland, Germany German Died: 12 August 1983, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Artist: Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo Born: 12 December 1851 Nationality: English Movement: Art Deco Died: 18 March 1942
Title: The Talisman, the River Aven at the Bois d’Amour Date: 1888 Movement: Synthetism Media: Oil on wood Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Artist: Édouard Manet Born: 23 January 1832, Paris, France Nationality: French Movements: Impressionism, Realism, Modern Art, Modernism Died: 30 April 1883, Paris, France
Title: The Sailor: Self-Portrait Date: 1911-12 Movement: Cubism Media: Oil on canvas Location: The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The painting depicts a woman, seated, dressed in a white tunic and holding a small child on her lap
Artist: Gustave Moreau Born: 6 April 1826, Paris, France French Movement: Symbolism, Orientalism Died: 18 April 1898, Paris, France
In 1527 Europe, religion had the power to direct and inform the content and climate of society’s art output.
Impressionism is the first distinctly modern movement in painting. Developing in Paris. It spread throughout Europe and eventually to the USA
Title: Portrait of Émile Zola Date: 1868 Movement: Realism Media: Oil on canvas Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Artist: Caravaggio Born: 29 September 1571, Milan, Italy Nationality: Italian Movement: Baroque Died: 18 July 1610, Porto Ercole, Italy
Title: Cathedale Notre-Dame de Chartes Date: 1194-1260 Movement: Gothic Location: Paris, France
Title: Virgin of the Rocks Date: c.1505-08 Movement: Renaissance Media: Oil on panel Located: National Gallery, London, UK
Artist: Rene Lalique Born: 6 April 1860, Ay, France Nationality: French Movement: Art Deco Died: 1 May 1945, Paris, France
Artist: Thomas Jones Born: 26 September 1742, Cefnllys, Wales Nationality: Welsh Died: 29 April 1803, Wales
Art Nouveau appeared in a wide variety of strands and styles generating enthusiasts in decorative arts and architecture throughout Europe and beyond. The aim was modernizing design and escaping the eclectic historical styles that had been popular in the past.
Artist: Gustav Klimt Born: 14 July 1862, Baumgarten, Austro-Hungarian Empire Nationality: Austrian Movement: Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Died: 6 February 1918, Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire Gustav Klimt is remembered as one of the greatest decorative painters of the 20th century, while also producing the century’s most significant body of erotic art. Initially he found success in his … Continue reading All Art is Erotic
Title: Line Made by Walking Date: 1967 Movement: Earth Art Media: Photograph Location: Tate Museum, London, UK
Title: Ici, C'est Stieglitz Date: 1915 Movement: Dada Media: Ink, graphite, and cut-and-pasted painted and printed papers on paperboard Location: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Title: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon Date: 1907 Movement: Cubism Media: Oil on canvas Location: Currently located in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Title: The Calling of St Matthew Date: 1599-1600 Movement: Baroque Media: Oil on canvas Location: San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
Artist: James Collinson Born: 9 May 1825, Mansfield, England English Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Died: 24 January 1881, London, UK
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