while other artists favored splashy history paintings and fashionable portraits of fashionable people, his talents lay in overlooked and undervalued subject matter such as still lifes and genre scenes. Chardin’s technique—he uses paint as if it were pastels—and formal concerns (composition, color,...
“The Museum of paintings is beautiful.Velázquezfirst class; fromEl Grecosome magnificent heads,Murillodoes not convince me in every one of his pictures.” Works by those and other artists would capture Picasso’s imagination at different times during his long career.Goya, for instance, was an...
His late period culminates with the Black Paintings of 1819–1823, applied on oil on the plaster walls of his house the Quinta del Sordo (House of the Deaf Man) where, disillusioned by political and social developments in Spain he lived in near isolation. Goya eventually abandoned Spain in ...
His paintings and poetry have been characterised as part of the Romantic movement and as "Pre-Romantic". A committed Christian who was hostile to the Church of England (indeed, to almost all forms of organised religion), Blake was influenced by the ideals and ambitions of the French and ...
Starry Night— Vincent van Gogh. Painted in 1889,Starry Nightis one of the most famous paintings in modern culture, which is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. It is based on van Gogh’s direct observations as well as his imagination, memories, and...
The collection of paintings by French artists of the Louvre Museum is unique. Jean Fouquet, Nicolas Poussin, Pierre Mignard, Le Nain brothers, Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, Georges de La Tour, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Madame Vigée Le Brun, Hubert Robert, Jean-Baptist...
Biographies, Paintings. MAIN A-Z INDEX Portrait of Isaac Levitan (1893) By Valentin Serov. Russia's greatest Impressionist painter. Cafe Terrace at Night (1888) By Vincent Van Gogh. The leading pioneer of European expressionism. Famous Painters (1700-1900) ...
In the 1860s, Manet began to experiment with looser brushwork and brighter colors, and he became a key figure in the emergence of Impressionism. His paintings of café scenes, ballet dancers, and street scenes captured the shifting light and atmosphere of modern life, and he was known for hi...
fête galantepaintings of the Rococo period came into great popularity at the time.Fête galantepaintings depicted outdoor pastimes and idealized landscapes; people were portrayed as enjoying life in scenes of festive parties and outdoor celebrations. Overall, the Rococo style was made to impress and...
Salvador Dali was a famous Spanish artist who made paintings, sculptures, and films about his dreams. This style of art is called surrealism. Surrealism is an art movement where painters make dream-like scenes and show situations that would be bizarre or impossible in real life. Surrealist ima...