Paul Cezanne
French artist and Post-Impressionist painter
Aix-en-Provence
... Places painted by Paul Cezanne
academies
From the seventeenth century to the early part of the twentieth century, artistic production in France was controlled by artistic academies which organized official exhibitions called salons.
Ambroise Vollard
French Art Dealer to Paul C�zanne, Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist
Breton Villages of Pont-Aven and Le Pouldu
Places painted by Paul Gauguin.
Emile Bernard
is known as a Post-Impressionist painter who had artistic friendships with Van Gogh, Gauguin and Eug�ne Boch,[1] and at a later time, C�zanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated
Utagawa Kuniyoshi
... was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting
Symbolism
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts.
Tahiti and Marquesas Island
Islands Paul Gauguin visited.
Primitivism
Primitivism is a Western art movement that borrows visual forms from non-Western or prehistoric peoples, such as Paul Gauguin's inclusion of Tahitian motifs in paintings and ceramics.
Vincent Van Gogh
was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.
Joseph Roulin
His family did portrait paintings. ...became a particularly good, loyal and supporting friend to Van Gogh during his stay in Arles. He liked Photographic like work.
Ares, St.-Remy and Auvers Sur Oise
Places Vincent Van Gough visted and painted
Hokusai
was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period.[1] He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting.
Symbolism
was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style had its beginnings with the publication Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire. The works of E
Paul Gauguin
a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. ... was later recognized for his experimental use of colors and synthetist style that were distinguishably different from Impressionism. His work was influentia
Paul Serusier, The Talisman 1888
was a French painter who was a pioneer of abstract art and an inspiration for the avant-garde Nabi movement, Synthetism and Cloisonnism.
Pont-Aven
Pont-Aven is a commune in the Finist�re department of Brittany in northwestern France. Painted by Paul Gauguin.
Nabi
were a group of Post-Impressionist avant-garde artists who set the pace for fine arts and graphic arts in France in the 1890s. Initially a group of friends interested in contemporary art and literature, most of them studied at the private art school of Ro
Maurice Denis
... was a French painter and writer, and a member of the Symbolist and Les Nabis movements. His theories contributed to the foundations of cubism, fauvism, and abstract art.
Edouard Vuillard
... was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.
Pierre Bonnard
...was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of Les Nabis.
Art Nouveau
is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art�especially the decorative arts�that were most popular during 1890-1910. The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
Hector Guimard Metropolitian 1900
Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (M�tropolitain) Station, Paris, France. Hector Guimard
Seigfried Bing: Maison Art Nouveau
("House of New Art"), abbreviated often as L'Art Nouveau, and known also as Maison Bing for the owner, was a gallery opened on 26 December 1895
Art Nouveau
... is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art�especially the decorative arts�that were most popular during 1890-1910.The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art".
Emile Galle: Marquetry
... was a French artist who worked in glass, and is considered to be one of the major forces in the French Art Nouveau movement. ... (also spelled as marqueterie) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns
Louis Comfort Tiffany: favrile
was an American artist and designer who worked in the decorative arts and is best known for his work in stained glass. He is the American artist most associated with the Art Nouveau [1] and Aesthetic movements. Favrile glass is a type of iridescent art gl
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 1800s yielded a collection of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of t
Chromolithography
is a method for making multi-colour prints. This type of colour printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and it includes all types of lithography that are printed in colour.
La Goulue
Louise Weber was a French can-can dancer who performed under the stage name of . . . ("the glutton").[ She also was referred to as the Queen of Montmartre.
Moulin Rouge
is a cabaret in Paris, France.
At the Moulin Rouge is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
Odilon Redon: noirs
was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.
Henri Rousseau: Le Douanier
was a French Post-Impressionist painter in the Na�ve or Primitive manner.[2][3] He was also known as . . . the customs officer), a humorous description of his occupation as a toll collector.
Jean-Leon Gerome
was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.
Evard Munch: The Frieze of Life
was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century. One of his most wel
Jugendstil
German for "youth style". Art Nouveau
fin-de-siecle
is French for "end of the century".[1] The term typically encompasses not only the meaning of the similar English idiom "turn of the century", but also both the closing and onset of an era, as it was felt to be a period of degeneration, but at the same ti
Combination print
is the technique of using two or more photographic images in conjunction with one another to create a single image.
Combination printing was popular in the mid-19th century due to the limitations of the negative's light sensitivity and camera technology.
jigsaw technique
The ... is this ...?
Gustav Klimt: Vienna Secession
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 art objects. ....'s primary subject was the female body, his works are marked by a fran
Josef Hoffman, Palais Stoclet, 1905-11 Brussels, Belgium
was an Austrian architect and designer of consumer goods, created Palais Stoclet.
Mosaic
is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It may be a technique of decorative art, an aspect of interior decoration, or of cultural and spiritual significance as in a cathedral.
Gesamtkunstwerk
(translated as total work of art, ideal work of art, universal artwork, synthesis of the arts, comprehensive artwork, all-embracing art form, or total artwork) is a work of art that makes use of all or many art forms or strives to do so.
Auguste Robin
was a French sculptor. Famous for The Thinker (1879-1889) and The Gates of Hell
Michelangelo
was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.
Dante's Inferno
14th-century epic poem Divine Comedy. It is followed by Purgatorio and Paradiso. It is an allegory telling of the journey of Dante through Hell, guided by the Roman poet Virgil. In the poem, Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the
Lorenzo Ghiberti, Gates of Paradise
born Lorenzo di Bartolo, was an Italian artist of the early Renaissance best known as the creator of the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral, named by Michelangelo the "Gates of Paradise".
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
was a French sculptor and painter. Famous for Ugolino and his Sons. Inspired Rodin
Eadweard Muybridge
... was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection.
Burghers of Calais
is one of the most famous sculptures by Auguste Rodin, completed in 1889. It serves as a monument to an occurrence in 1347 during the Hundred Years' War, when Calais, an important French port on the English Channel, was under siege by the English for over
Edward Steichen
... was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator.
Meudon
... is a municipality in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France.
Henri 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.[1] Matisse is commonly regarded, along with Picasso and Marcel Duchamp, as on
Ambroise Vollard
is regarded as one of the most important dealers in French contemporary art at the beginning of the twentieth century. He is credited with providing exposure and emotional support to numerous notable and unknown artists, including Paul C�zanne, Renoir, Pa
Luxe, Calme et Volupte
... is an oil painting by Henri Matisse. It was painted in 1904, after a summer spent working in St. Tropez on the French Riviera alongside the neo-Impressionist painters Paul Signac and Henri Edmond Cross.The painting is Matisse's most important work in
Signac, D'Eugene Delacroix au Neo-Impressionisme, 1899
Signac's essay, "D'Eug�ne Delacroix au N�o-impressionism" in 1898.[2] wrote about Divisionist technique.
Andre Derain
... was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse.[1]
Louis Vauxcelles
... was an influential French art critic. He is credited with coining the terms Fauvism (1905), and Cubism (1908).
Salon D'Automne
... was organized by Georges Rouault, Andr� Derain, Henri Matisse, Angele Delasalle and Albert Marquet as a reaction to the conservative policies of the official Paris Salon. The exhibition almost immediately became the showpiece of developments and innov
Le Bonheur de vivre
(The joy of Life), is a painting by Henri Matisse. In the central background of the piece is a group of figures that is similar to the group depicted in his painting The Dance (second version). In the picture, there are different nude bodies of both women
Collioure
Matisse made a fauvism painting at+of this location.
Blue Nude: Memory of Biskra
) ("Nu bleu, Souvenir de Biskra") is an early 1907 oil painting by Henri Matisse.
Sergei Shchukim
... was a Russian businessman who became an art collector, mainly of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, following a trip to Paris in 1897, when he bought his first Monet. He also bought The Dance.
Pablo Picasso, Cubism and its Influences
was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, he is widely known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the in
Blue Period
... is a term used to define to the works produced by Spanish painter Pablo Picasso between 1901 and 1904, when he painted essentially monochromatic paintings in shades of blue and blue-green, only occasionally warmed by other colors.
James McNeil Whistler
was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo, "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing
Rose Period
... signifies the time when the style of Pablo Picasso's painting used cheerful orange and pink colours in contrast to the cool, somber tones of the previous Blue Period. ... lasted from 1904 to 1906.[1]
Saltimbanques; commedia dell arte
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gertrude and Leo Stein
Art Collectors.
Iberian Heads
African wooden head sculptures popularly collected by artists.
Les Demoiselles D'Avignon 1907
The Young Ladies of Avignon Painted by Spanish Artist Pablo Picasso
Eugene Delacroix
French Romantic artist. Inspired Impressionists and Symbolists.
Nonfinito
Non finito is a sculpting technique literally meaning that the work is unfinished. Non finito sculptures appear unfinished because the artist only sculpts part of the block, leaving the figure appearing to be stuck within the block of material.
Synthetism
Synthetism is a term used by post-Impressionist artists like Paul Gauguin, �mile Bernard and Louis Anquetin to distinguish their work from Impressionism. Earlier, Synthetism has been connected to the term Cloisonnism, and later to Symbolism.[1] The term i
Cloisonnisme
Cloisonnism is a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours.
Fauvism
is the style of les Fauves (French for "the wild beasts"), a loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Henri M