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The Night Watch, Rembrandt
"Night Watch", 1642; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Night Watch is misnamed because of a very dark varnish that covered it until the 1940's. It should be titled The Company... |
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Theo van Rysselberghe, Painter
Théo van Rysselberghe, Belgian painter, was born in Ghent in 1862. He studied art at the Academies in Ghent and Brussels, and in 1881 exhibited for the first time at the... |
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The Picnic, Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe, Manet
Edouard Manet's submissions to the Salon of 1863, The Picnic among them, were rejected and appeared at the Salon des Refusés. The large canvas became the focus of scandal... |
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Apples, Peaches, Pears, Grape - Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, one of the creators of modern art, was called the "solidifier of Impressionism''. And indeed he does not draw his picture before painting it: instead, he cr... |
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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, Seurat
Influenced by the Impressionists’ experimentation with color, Post-Impressionist painter Georges Seurat worked with innovative techniques. On an enormous canvas, the arti... |
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Vase with 12 sunflowers, Van Gogh
Still Life: Vase with Twelve Sunflowers
Oil on canvas, 91.0 x 72.0 cm, Arles: August, 1888. In February 1888 van Gogh settled at Arles, where he painted more than 200 ca... |
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Femmes de Tahiti (Sur la plage), Gauguin
Gauguin's art has all the appearance of a flight from civilisation, of a search for new ways of life, more primitive, more real and more sincere. His break away from a so... |
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The Scream, Munch
The Scream has come more and more to be accepted as Edvard Munch's most significant motif - the very symbol of modern man, for whom God is dead and for whom materialism p... |
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Nympheas, Monet
Nymphéas, effet du soir", Claude Monet, 1897, Musée Marmottan, Paris.
"It took me time to understand my waterlilies... I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew... |
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Mill in Sunlight, Mondrian
1908, Oil on canvas, 114 x 87 cm, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Until 1908 Mondrian’s work was naturalistic - incorporating successive influences of academic landscape... |
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Red and Blue Chair, Rietveld
In 1918, the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed a chair that affected not only furniture design, but the history of architecture. Rietveld's "Red and Blue" chair i... |
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Composition Red Blue Yellow, Mondrian
The 20th century is distinguished in art history for one invention above all: abstraction. The Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in this development. H... |
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Ceci n'est pas une pipe, Magritte
Magritte worked in a wallpaper factory, and was a poster and advertisement designer until 1926 when a contract with Galerie la Centaure in Brussels made it possible for h... |
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Guernica, Picasso
“Guernica, the oldest town of the Basque provinces and the center of their cultural traditions, was almost completely destroyed by the rebels in an air attack yesterday a... |
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Nighthawks, Hopper
Nighthawks; 1942 (120 Kb); Oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in; The Art Institute of Chicago. Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of lonelin... |
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