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Mary Stevenson
Cassatt, Paul
Cézanne, Salvador Dali,
Edgar Degas,
Vincent Van
Gogh, L.
S. Lowry, R. A., Henri Matisse,
Claude Monet,
Henry
Moore, Berthe
Morisot, Pablo
Picasso, Camille Pissarro,
Jackson
Pollock, Pierre Auguste
Renoir, Mark
Rothko, Georges
Seurat, Alfred
Sisley, Antoni
Tapies, Joseph
Mallard William Turner.
, 1844 -
1926..
Mary
Cassatt was born in 1844 and studied art at the
Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia, U.S.A.
After traveling all over Europe she then
settled in Paris in 1874 and became close
to the artist Degas. His influence on her work
led her into the French
Impressionist movement and she exhibited some
of her work in the Impressionist exhibitions of
1879 - 1886. Her knowledge of the
Impressionists prompted her brother Alexander
to buy paintings by Renoir, Manet, Monet,
Pissarro and Degas. In the 1890's in Paris she
became influenced by an exhibition of Japanese
prints and her work improved in clarity
and colour. Her involvement in printing began
to expand and throughout her career became well
known in this field of art. She made France her
home for the rest of her life and is known as
being a prolific painter in pastels and
water-colours. Mary Cassatt was a master
painter and much admired by other women
artists.
She died
1926.
Collections of
paintings by Mary Stevenson
Cassatt.
National Gallery of Art,
Washington. D. C.
La Musée des Beaux-Arts
de Bordeaux.
Cassatt paintings. The
Artchive.
Sheldon
Collection.
Web Museum,
Paris
Musée D'Art American,
Giverny, France.
Musée des
Beaux-Arts.
Art in
Context
The Metropolitan Museum
of Arts.
CGFA
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. 1839
- 1906
Born January 19th 1839
at Aix - en - Provence. His early paintings were influenced by
the artist Eugene Delacroix and in his oil painting he tended
to use black which made his paintings seem dark. Other artists
to influence Cézanne were Courbet, Daumier and Manet. It was in
the 1870's when he began to show his Impressionistic abilities
and spent some time living with the renown collector and
amateur artist Dr. Gachet. His interest in still life became
more prominent as self criticism of his work meant that he
would paint extremely slowly as he progressed as an
Impressionist. His palette now was much lighter in tone without
the use of black in his colours as in the early years of his
career, Due to his paintings being criticized in the
third Impressionist exhibition in 1877 he decided to return
home in Aix - en - Provence, and began to develop an interest
in 'plein air' painting and in the area around his
home he found many subjects to paint. His work is now much
acclaimed by collectors, as his
talents as one of the leading impressionist is appreciated by
the art establishment.
Died October 22nd 1906 at Aix - en -
Provence.
Collections of paintings by Paul
Cézanne.
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Tate Gallery, London.
Cézanne paintings. The
Artchive.
State Hermitage Museum, Saint
Petersburg. Russia.
E. G. Buehrle Collection,
Zurich.
Encyclopedia for Paul
Cézanne.
Le Petit Musee Cézanne.
CNN European Cézanne.
CGFA
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. 1904 -
1989 H. S. A. A.
One of the greatest painters of the
20th Century
Studied as a young man at the San
Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid, and he had
his first exhibition of his paintings in Barcelona in
1925. At the age of 25 he became a member of the
group of surrealists and also met his future wife Gala
and they became very close. His prominence in the
surrealists movement led his to become it's most
influential painter but was expelled from the group in
1934. Dali left Europe in 1940 to go to America and it
was in 1941 that the Museum of Modern Art, New York
gave him a major exhibition of his work which set him on
the path to fame. He started a new series of 19 large
paintings in a new style which dwelt on religion and
historical scenes. Following the death of his wife Gala
in 1982 Dali himself began to have poor health with heart
problems Throughout his life he worked in all types
of mediums and after he died on January 23rd 1989 his
family found thousands of paintings in his studio. He
will be remembered as being one of the great artist's of
the 20th century.
Collections of paintings by
Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
Estate Foundation
The Salvador Dali Museum ( Early Years
)
The
Salvador Dali Museum ( Transitional period
)
The Salvador Dali Museum ( Surrealism )
Dali paintings. The
Artchive.
Tate Gallery, London.
The Salvador Dali
Artchives.
Galleria Narthex. Dali
Exhibition.
Virtual Gallery
The Life of Salvador
Dali.
Webcoast. The Salvador Dali
Exhibits.
The Salvador Dali Art
Gallery.
Britannica.
. 1834 -
1917..
Born in Paris on the 19th July
1834.
Studied art under the painter Lamothes
and at 18 began his studies at the Ecole des Beaux
Arts, Paris. Soon however he was tempted to move to Italy
where he studied the Renaissance movement and paintings.
After five years in Italy he returned to Paris and
started to paint the portraits of his own family and
close friends. His involvement with the artist Manet led
him into painting theatrical backdrops.
It was around 1869 that his interest in
the ballet dancer began and this interest in the female
ballet dancer remained one of his favorite subjects to
paint for the rest of his life. Other favorite subjects
were the racecourses and racehorses and cafe scenes in
Paris. His use of the pastels medium was arrived at by
his early study of the paintings of Ingres, and
Degas found the medium to his liking when sketching the
movement and form of the ballet dancer. Degas was a great
painter of the female form and was well liked throughout
the art establishment. He died on September 27th 1917,
Paris leaving thousands of drawings and sketches in his
preferred medium of pastels.
Collections of paintings by Edgar
Degas.
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
Minnesota.
Degas paintings. The
Artchive.
Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery of Art,
Washington.
National Museum of Western Art,
Tokio.
National Gallery, London.
Web Museum, Paris.
Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco.
The Artchive.
CGFA
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, Dutch. 1853 -
1890
Born in 1853 son of Theodorus Van Gogh
and Anna Carbentus in Groot - Zundern, Holland. He had a
brother called Theo. born 1st May 1857. By 1869 he became
apprenticed to art dealers Goupil & Cie, Paris.
In 1873 Vincent was transferred to London where he
visited the museums and art galleries to increase
his knowledge of the Victorian painters. His interest in
the bible then took preference over his art and by
1877 he returned to Amsterdam and his religious studies.
He was sent to a mining village in Belgium to preach but
lived in extreme poverty and by 1880 his interest in
religion had declined mainly through personal failure and
he took up painting full time again. His brother Theo.
had become very close during his adult life and they
corresponded by letter on a regular basis with Theo.
sending Vincent the art materials he constantly
requested.
His poverty continued, and it was only
his brother Theo's belief that one day Vincent's
paintings would be appreciated by the art establishment
that sustained their close and personal friendship.
It was the year 1888, Vincent's painting began to show
some improvement and he journeyed to Arles in
Provence to paint landscapes. He rented a house which
became known as the "Yellow House of the artist" and now
he started to find himself, and with a new style of
painting began a new and productive era. Over the
summer months he created numerous paintings of the
countryside and he began to think about starting a school
of painting and a new artist community. Paul Gauguin
joined him at Arles in the October but over the following
months due to their constant arguments the relationship
deteriorated. After the failed attack on Gauguin with a
razor, Vincent started to lose his mind and cuts off his
left earlobe. Vincent continues to work again after being
cared for but his mental state was now fragile and
breakdowns followed at regular intervals and he was
transferred to a mental asylum.
By the January of 1890 still
suffering from mental breakdowns he continued to paint
when he could. In this last year of his life, the art
critics had started to appreciate his paintings but
through his continued mental illness and financial
hardship, on the 27th July Vincent shot himself in
the chest with a pistol he had borrowed and he died on
the 29th July 1890.
Represented in many public and private
collections.
Collections of paintings by
Vincent Van Gogh.
Vincent Van Gogh Museum,
Amsterdam.
Tate Gallery, London.
Vincent Van Gogh. The
Artchive.
E. G. Buehrle collection,
Zurich.
Van Gogh Gallery
Collection.
Vincent Van Gogh Information
Gallery.
The Art Museum
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, R.
A., British Industrial Landscape painter. 1887 - 1976
H. S. A. A.
Born on the 1st November 1887 in
Stretford, Manchester. Lancashire. U. K.
It would be in early 1909 when his
family moved to Station Road, Pendlebury, where he lived
for around 40 years. He studied at Salford School of Art
part time in the period 1915-28 and during the evenings
he worked as a rent collector in the
Manchester and Salford area. He would draw in a small
pocket size sketchbook in pencil., the local
people, life and grimy buildings during his working
visits into the streets and houses. After working all day
at the Salford School of Art and in the evenings
collecting the rents he would go into his studio and
paint during the night and into the early hours,
where he created in oil paints the industrial paintings
depicting the streets and mills of
Lancashire.
During the 1930's and exhibitions
in Manchester and Salford, it was in 1939
when he was offered an exhibition at the Lefevre Gallery
, London. Following the London exhibition , interest
in his paintings really began and L. S. Lowry
had finally arrived on to the art scene. Being a very
cautious man regarding money it wasn't until 1952
when sales of his paintings were in steady demand that he
decided one evening to give up his part time insurance
and rent collector job. Well known for the stylized stick
like figures of workers of the industrial cotton mills of
Lancashire and received the honor of R. A. for his life's
work in art. Lowry was always to be seen in his beloved
Salford and Manchester, sketching the grimy streets full
of children and people about their work in his
personalized unique way. Late in his career he
specialized in depicting the solitary lonely misfit of
society, but it's mainly through his paintings of
the working people of Salford and Manchester at the
street level of the 1930's depression to the 1960's
that he will be remembered for. He became an active
president of the Bury Art Society and was well known by
it's painter members.
On one of Theo's visit to Lowry's
studio, he commented on the huge amounts of Flake White
oil paint that Lowry used in his paintings to which he
replied, "I buy huge quantities of white, but I only use
Flake White oil paint as I have found that over a few
years it tends to mellow quickly with age and this
is part of the atmospheric light effect I want in my
paintings. " It appears that Lowry had experimented with
various colours and painted a number of small panels with
colour, including Flake White and then placed the panels
in a box which he put away for a few years. When he
opened the box later he found to his satisfaction that
the Flake White oil paint had mellowed as he intended to
a greyish and yellow appearance which was the
desired effect he wanted in his paintings.
A new gallery the Lowry Center, has been
constructed at Salford Keys, and is now open to the
public.
A magnificent exhibition of 100 of the
artists paintings will be on show at one time at
the Lowry and the public will be able to enjoy the works
in this newly built exhibition centre, built specially to
house the Lowry collection and to honour Salford's
greatest artist of the 20th century.
During his life he became associated in
Manchester and Salford area with the painter and long
time friend, Theodore Zimmerman who also lived in the
Manchester area.
L. S. Lowry died age 89 on the 23rd
February 1976. Represented in many public and private
collections.
The Lowry Centre is well
worth a visit and can be accessed on the home page.
A new exhibition centre in Salford, Lancashire.
U. K. built specially to display the paintings of the famous
artist L. S. Lowry R. A.
Collections of paintings by
Lawrence Stephen Lowry.
Tate Gallery, London.
L. S. Lowry links to information about the
artist.
. 1869 -
1954 H. S. A. A.
Born 1869 French Fauvism painter. He
became a student of the painter Odilon Redon and during
this time his studies in art led him to the work of
Cezanne and Manet. In 1905 he moved to the south of
France and Joined the artist Andre Derain at Collioure.
The influence of Derain changed his palette which now had
become much more colourful. The colours on the coast
around Collioure inspired him and his paintings began to
show a new style, full of colour and
movement.
During the 1914 - 1918 war he traveled
to North Africa and during this time a move into
'abstract forms' began by 1916. In 1917 he returned
to the Cote d'Azur area in the south of France
where he painted many pictures in his new
style.
Matisse died in 1954 leaving a great
quantity of drawings, water-colours and oils in his
studio.
Collections of paintings by Henri
Matisse.
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
Russia.
Matisse Museum, Nice.
Matisse paintings. The
Artchive.
Musee
Matisse...
Web Museum, Paris.
Fauvism ( Web Museum, Paris.
)
Tate Gallery, London.
Art in Context.
CGFA
Art4net
Henri Matisse paintings.
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. 1840 -
1926
Born in Paris in 1840 he is now
regarded as one of the greatest artist's of the 19th and
20th century. The Impressionists naturally depicted the
seasons and weather of Spring, Summer and Winter,
painting in the open air outdoors, they became masters
of light and atmospheric effects. He was fascinated
with snow scenes and was the first Impressionist to paint
the snow "En plein air" and many of the snow pictures
were painted in the area around Argenteuil and on the
Seine. His love of London especially in winter when fog
appears over the river Thames prompted many river
paintings. Like Waterloo Bridge, with it's blues and
greys and the Houses of Parliament almost reminiscent in
appearance to the 'Nocturnes' of Whistler. Monet's
most important project was the creation of his
water garden at his home in Giverny, France. The
beautiful garden which is still filled with many types of
colourful flowers of nature and the water garden remains
a most popular place to visit. His water lilies series of
mural paintings which were painted on huge canvasses are
greatly loved for their majestic simplicity and colour.
He died at the age of 86.
His works are represented in many public
and private collections.
Collections of paintings by Claude
Monet.
The Hermitage Museum , St.
Petersburg.
Monet paintings, The
Artchive.
Monet paintings.
Claude Monet at
infoeagle.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
National Gallery. London.
Claude Monet at Giverny.
Gardens
of sunlight.
Olga's
Gallery.
. British
Sculptor. 1892 - 1986 H. S. A.
A.
Henry Spencer Moore was born July 30th
1898 at Castleford, Yorkshire and is one of the greatest
British sculptors of the 20th century. Died on the 31st
August 1986 at Perry Green, Hertfordshire.
Following his service in the first
world war he began his studies at the Leeds School of
Arts. His sculptures of stone and wood completed in the
1920's - 1930's were mainly influenced by the old art
sculptures of Mexico, and during this period he began
teaching at the Royal College of Art, London. In 1928 the
first main exhibition of his sculptures were at the
Warren Gallery, London. Many successful productive
years followed where his fame became known throughout the
world following his retrospective exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York. This exhibition set the
seal on his success and in 1951 an exhibition of his
works were held by the Tate Gallery, London.
The American Academy honored him by
electing him full member in 1961. Another exhibition at
the Tate Gallery, London was held in honour of his 70th
birthday, and by this time he had become known throughout
the world of art. Other important exhibitions followed at
regular intervals and on August 31st 1986 at the age of
88 years he died leaving a wealth of sculptures in
stone, wood and other materials as well as numerous
paintings and studies. His works are well represented in
many public and private collections.
Collections of works by Henry
Moore.
Tate Gallery, London.
Moore paintings. The
Artchive.
Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco.
The Israel Museum of Art.
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, 1841 -
1895..
Born 1841 in Bourges, France. Her family
decided to move to Paris and there Berthe and her sister
received instruction in painting and drawing techniques.
While copying paintings at the Louvre she met the painter
Manet and her painting improved from that point in time
During their relationship Manet painted Berthe many times
and she appears in some of his pictures. As she
developed, her style became much lighter in touch with an
atmospheric quality. Her scenes of interiors with women
and children being her best works in both oils and
watercolours. She became a full member of the French
Impressionists and exhibited in many of the exhibitions
by the great French Impressionists in Paris. Her work
remains as a beacon to women painters throughout the
world..
Aged only 54 she died in Paris
1895.
Collections of paintings by Berthe
Morisot.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.
C.
Fine Arts Museums of Sam
Francisco.
Morisot paintings. The
Artchive.
Web Museum.
Wet Canvas Virtual
Museum.
Tate Gallery, London.
Berthe Morisot
Impressionist.
CGFA
Olga's Gallery
Spanish. 1881 - 1973 H. S. A.
A.
Born on October 25th 1881 in Malaga,
Spain to Maria Picasso, wife of the artist Jose Ruiz. He
decided to take his mothers surname as an artist and
qualified for the Academy of Fine Arts, Barcelona.
Later he studied at the San Fernando Academy, Madrid. His
well known 'Blue period' spanned the years between
1901 to 1904 when he was painting in Paris. Next came the
'circus' period with it's acrobats and clowns with a
complete change of palette. The cubist period after
meeting Braque started around 1911 and continued for a
few years before entering a time where he designed sets
for the theatre in a more classical style. A move into
other forms of art including sculpture in wrought iron
and other materials started in the early 1920's and
continued until the 1930's. During the 2nd world war
Picasso remained in Paris and during this time he painted
many pictures which dwelt on the theme of death. He met
and lived with Fran. Gilot and she gave him two children.
The children Claude and Paloma appeared in a number of
his paintings in the 40's. He created many forms of
ceramic art during the late 1940's. and it was into
the 1950's when his main interest turned to printing and
lithography.
In 1953 he met Jacqueline Roque and in
1961 he married her and following this marriage,
Pablo and Jaqueline decided to leave Paris and
moved to the south of France His popularity
as an artist earned him the nickname 'The showman', with
now exhibitions in Europe and America and in the 1960's
he created the huge sculpture at the Chicago Civic
Centre. An exhibition of his works at the Louvre in 1971
in honour for his 90th birthday was a great success
followed in 1980 by an exhibition of his life works at
the Museum of Modern Arts, New York..
Following a very active and prolific
painting career he died on April 8th in 1973 aged 91
years old.
Represented in many public and private
collection throughout the art world.
Collections of paintings by Pablo
Picasso.
Pablo Picasso. Official Web
Site.
The Hermitage Museum, St.
Petersburg.
Picasso paintings. The
Artchive.
Musee National Picasso.
France.
Musee Picasso - Antibes.
Museu Thyssen-Bornemisza,
Spain.
On-Line Picasso
project.***
Tate Gallery, London.
Art in Context
Moma Collection, New
York.
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. 1830
- 1903
Born 1830 on the Caribbean island
of St. Thomas and at a young age moved to Paris to
study painting. He later returned to St. Thomas to run
the family business but his heart and future was as a
painter. Driven by his passion for painting he returned
to Paris in 1855 and during this time met Corot and
Manet. In 1860 he became friends with Cézanne and other
Impressionists and exhibited a painting at the 'Salon des
Refuses'. The small group of Impressionists being short
of a place to show their works exhibited at the
photographic studio of Nadar and the exhibition proved a
success. Pissarro giving advice to young painters said,
"Look for the type of scene in nature that suits
your temperament and then the motif should be observed
for its shape and colour rather than for its drawing. Try
and keep your painting loose in form, as precise
drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole
and destroys all the sensations. Do not define to closely
the outlines of things as it is the brush stroke of
the right value and colour which should produce the
drawing. Looked as a mass the greatest difficulty is not
to give the contour in detail but to paint what is
within. Always paint the essential character of things
and try to convey it by any means whatsoever without
bothering about technique. When you are painting, make a
choice of subject and see what is on the right and the
left, then work on everything simultaneously. Don't work
bit by bit, but paint everything at once by placing the
tones everywhere with brush strokes of the right
colour
and value, while taking notice of
what is alongside as this may affect the reflective
colour and value. Use small brush strokes and try
to put down your perceptions immediately. Your eyes you
should not be fixed by one point, but should take in
everything while you are observing the reflections which
the other colours produce on their surroundings. Work at
the same time upon sky, water, branches and ground,
keeping everything going on an equal basis and
unceasingly rework until you have the effect. Cover the
canvas with paint at the first go and then work at
it until you can see nothing foliage and other things.
Don't be afraid of putting on colour and then refine the
work little by little. Don't proceed according to
rules and principles, but paint what you observe and
feel. Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it
is best not to lose your first impression. Never be timid
in front of nature as one must be bold at the risk
of being deceived into making mistakes. The artist must
have only one master and it is nature as she is the
one always to be consulted."
Pissarro became one of the first great
artists of the 19th / 20th century to use pastels as a
painting medium in it's own right and his pastels have a
strength of colour equal to any other medium. Following a
long and successful career painting in
Pastels, Oils and Water-colour in 1930,
Paris he died age 73 years old.
Collections of paintings by
Camille Pissarro.
Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco.
Pissarro paintings. The
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
CGFA (Pissarro images.)
National Gallery of Art,
Washington.
Tate Gallery, London.
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J,
Contemporary American Artist. 1912 - 1956 H. S.
A. A.
Born 1912 in Cody, Wyoming, America, and
became known as the most important artist of the Abstract
Expressionist movement. His main studies in art at
the age of 17 years old was under the painter Thomas Hart
Benton at the Art Student's League, New York. And in the
early 1930's was influenced by the Mexican Muralist
painters Orozco and Rivera.
It was in the late 1940's that his
painting started to show the direction in art known as
abstract and the 'drip and splash' style which he
would become known throughout the world. He would place
huge canvases on the floor and then 'drip and
splash colours through holes in a paint can suspended
above the canvas. His use of knives, sticks and other
various items to manipulate and blend the paint together
with adding other material such as pieces of broken
glass, sand, plaster and any other material to hand to
create an 'impasto' of various thickness to achieve the
effect he wanted. This type of method became known as
'action' painting, thereby resulting in direct
expressionism of the moods of the artist.
Later in his life he would alter the
actual shape of the canvas to one of unusual
characteristics later known as the New American Painting
style.
Theodore Zimmerman's family retain four
drawings of Pollock in their collection.
Jackson Pollock died in an automobile
crash in Cody in 1956 only 44 years old but was a giant
figure of American
Abstract Expressionism.
Collections of paintings by
Jackson Pollock.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York.
Pollock paintings. The
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
.
1841 - 1919
Born 1841 the son of a tailor in
Limoges, France. When he was only 4 years old his family
decided to move to Paris. When Pierre became 13 he was
apprenticed to a painter in a factory which made and
decorated china-ware. Here he was trained to paint in the
18th century style. To earn extra money he sold copies
of 18th century paintings which he copied in the
Louvre, Paris and also attended classes in the evenings
to try to improve his painting technique. When he
was 21 he joined the studio of Gleyre where he
became aquatinted with other artists and became friends
with Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. His painting was
interrupted by the onset of the war between France
and Prussia and during this time only a few paintings
were completed. After the was over, his paintings began
to become much richer in colour, mainly due to his
friendship and involvement with the Impressionists.
The majority of the Impressionists were involved with
painting nature and landscapes, but Renoir chose to
include figures and people in his pictures and his style
began to progress and develop as he began to include
children as the main subject with a garden or landscape
background. The children in his paintings appear to be
aware of their importance within the picture and his
skill of portraying the young child in a floral
background proved very popular with his
clients.
He painted right up to the day he died
even though he had extreme difficulty holding his brushes
due to a long and painful illness. He became one of
the most important of the French Impressionists and his
paintings are enjoyed by many art lovers throughout the
world.
Died 1919
Collections of paintings by Pierre
Auguste Renoir.
The Metropolitan Museum of
Art.
Renoir paintings. The
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
Auguste Renoir Gallery
Biography.
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. Russian
Emigrate U. S. A. 1913 - 1971 H. S. A.
A.
Born on the 25th September 1903 as
Marcus Rothkowitz and in 1913 emigrates with his family
to the United States when he was 10 years old. His
interest in painting started at an early age with
tentative attempts at various styles as he slowly but
surely made his way as a up and coming artist in America.
In 1921 studied at Yale University, Connecticut and then
in 1924 attended the Art Students League, New York. He
became friends with the artist Max Weber and his painting
started to develop and mature and his first solo
exhibition at the Museum of Art, Portland and at the
Contemporary Arts Gallery, New York. It was in 1940 that
he decided to change his name to Mark Rothko, the name he
used for the rest of his painters life. Following further
solo and joint exhibitions of his works he received a
commission from Harvard to paint murals at the Holyoke
Centre. This was followed in 1961 by an important
retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mark
Rothko was a monumental painter of monumental canvasses
and the art establishment and general public lost a great
artist when he died on the 25th August, 1971.
Collections of paintings by Mark
Rothko.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.
C.
Rothko paintings. The
Artchive.
San Francisco Museum of modern
art.
Mark Rothko at NGA.
Mark Rothko Exhibition.
Tate Gallery Rothko
Collection.
( French
) 1859 - 1891
Collections of paintings by
Georges Seurat.
Tate Gallery, London.
Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco.
Musée d'Orsay, France.
National Gallery, London.
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
The Art Canvas.
Art On Line ( Italian )
Wet Canvas Virtual
Museum.
Detroit Institute of Art,
Michigan.
Web Museum, Paris. France. ( La Grande
Jatte. )
. 1839 -
1899.....
Born in Paris on the 30th October
1839.
Sisley's father was an English merchant
trader who wanted his son to enter the business when he
left school. However, his interest in Impressionism
started to influence his style of painting and he joined
the main group of Impressionists working in Paris at the
time. Paintings of landscapes around Paris were completed
at Argenteuil, Bougival and Louveciennes with the
sky being the major part of the painting. Due recognition
of his talents as a painter was rather late in arriving
and now is fully accepted as on of the major
Impressionists of the 19th century. He died of throat and
mouth cancer on January 29th 1899 at
Moret-sur-Loing.
Collections of paintings by Alfred
Sisley.
National Gallery of Art, Washington. D.
C.
Sisley paintings. The
Artchive.
Web Museum, Paris.
Tate Gallery, London.
CGFA
Olga's Gallery
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. Spanish Modern Artist. B. 1923
H. S. A. A.
Born on the 13th December 1923 in
Barcelona, Spain. It was in 1944 he studied law and later
painting at the Academia Valls, Barcelona. Held his first
exhibition at the Galleries Laietanes, and in 1952 sent
exhibits to the Venice Biennale and in 1953 made
his name as a painter at the Martha Jackson Galleries,
New York. Retrospective exhibitions of Tapies works in
1962 were at the Soloman Guggenheim Museum, New
York and then the Kunsthaus in Zurich. Other
retrospective exhibitions in Paris, Vienna and at the
Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid were a great
success in the 1970's. In 1981 he was awarded the Medalla
de Oro de Bellas
Arte by King Juan Carlos I in Madrid,
Spain In 1984 the Fundacion for Antoni Tapies, Barcelona
was created and became a landmark for the painter as he
began a period of European and far eastern travels. It
was in 1988 he was honoured by the title of Commandeur de
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France and in 1990 he
accepted an award of the Praemium Imperiale by the
Art Association of Japan. His painting at the
Venice Biennale was awarded a major prize in 1993
followed by other retrospective exhibitions in later
years by a successful and great Spanish artist of the
20th Century. Now at the age of 77 years old he is
still painting and lives at his home in the Catalonia
hills, Spain.
Collections of paintings by Antoni
Tapies.
Tapies paintings. The
Artchive.
Tate Gallery, London.
, R. A. 1775 -
1851
English landscape painter. Born on
the 23rd April 1775 and died 1851
Royal Academician.
Tate
Gallery, London.
Turner paintings. The
Artchive.
j-m-w-turner
National Gallery, London.
Olga's
Gallery.
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