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Buonarroti Michaelangelo

(1475-1564)


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Michelangelowas born in Caprese, Italy, as a son of a local magistrAfter moving to Florence during his early childhood, he eventapprenticed under Domenico Ghirlandaio in 1488. About two years latstudied at a sculpture school in the Medici garden run by BertoldGiovanni, which created opportunities to meet many humanists, poetsother artists of his time. With the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, his patr1492, Michelangelo fled to Bologna due to political situations. Thersculpted many of his famous works for five years, and returned to Floto reconcile with his reputation. In 1508, Rome, Pope Juliucommissioned Michelangelo to fresco the ceiling of the Sistine Chapefired his workshop and worked single-handedly for 6 years to compleentire artwork. While mainly working for the papacy in his later years,Clement VIII soon commissioned Michelangelo to paint the Last Judge

also for the Sistine Chapel, which reflected the pessimism of the artist post-Reformation obsession with wrath and punishment. Michaeladied at the age of 89.Michaelangelo's art inspired and affected his contemporaries subsequent generations of painters with incalculable effects up to present t day.


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"The Last Judgement"


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The Creation of Adam


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"Pieta"


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Rembrandt,Harmenszoon vinRijn

(1606 - 1669)


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Rembrandt was a Dutch painter, draftsman, and etcher frLeyden. He trained in Amsterdam where he developed a style akin tof Caravaggio. He established his reputation as a portraitist and

subsequently in great demand, painting more than 40 commissions next two years. He married in 1634. His series of portraits painted o period of 40 years reveals the growing insight and depth parallelother works. Youthful exuberance and flamboyant style gives wa patience, compassion and essential simplicity. The drama of early wis replaced by a profound compelling intensity. As a result, he wasfavoured as a society portraitist, and his genius went unappreciated.

Rembrandt died alone and in poverty, having outlived his whis son and his mistress

A giant in the history of art. Rembrandt's paintings characterized by luxuriant brushwork, rich colour, and a mastery of portraiture. Numerous portraits and self-portraits allow us to glimpscharacter of the man. His drawings constitute a vivid record

contemporary Amsterdam life.


8/105"Aristotle, w/bust of Homer"


9/105"Bathing in a River"


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"Old Man with Gold Chain"


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"Bethsheba"


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"Jeremiah"


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Claude Monet(1840-1926)


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Claude Oscar Monet was a French impressionist painter w brought the study of the transient effects of natural light to its refined expression.


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" Garden in F lower"


16/105" Artist' s Garden at Vtheuil"


17/105" Gare St. Lazare"


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Henri Matisse(1869 1954)


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Henri mile Benot Matissewas a French artist, leader of the Faugroup, regarded as one of the great formative figures in 20th-centura master of the use of color and form to convey emotional expressioHe was regarded as a leader of radicalism in the arts, and gainedapproval of a number of influential critics and collectors. Amonmany important commissions he received was that of a Russian collwho requested mural panels illustrating dance and music.His broadly conceived themes ideally allowed him freedom of inveand play of form and expression. His images of dancers, and of hu

figures in general, convey expressive form first and the particular dof anatomy only secondarily.


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" Green Stripe"


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" M usic" "


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Paul Czanne(1839-1906)


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Czanne was born in the southern French town of Aix-

Provence, January 19, 1839, the son of a wealthy banker. In 1862was alienated from his family, who found his behavior peculiarfailed to appreciate his revolutionary art. After a number of bitter fadisputes, the aspiring artist was given a small allowance and sent to art in Paris. During the greater part of his own lifetime, howCzanne was largely ignored, and he worked in isolation. He mistrcritics, had few friends, and, until 1895, exhibited only occasionallyMany of Czanne's early works were painted in dark tones appliedheavy, fluid pigment, suggesting the moody, romantic expressionis

previous generations.


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" Le Chteau Noir "


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" Bathers " Les Grandes Bai gneuses )"


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" The Ki tchen Table"


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" H ouse of Pre Lacroix"


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" Tul ips in a Vase"


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" Blue Vase Stil l L if e"


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" Onions & Bottle Still L ife"


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" Chestnut Trees,Jas de Bouffan"


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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(1841-1919)


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Renoir was born in Limoges on February 25, 1841. As a chilworked in a porcelain factory in Paris, painting designs on china; he copied paintings on fans, lamp shades, and blinds. He studied paiformally in 1862-63 at the academy of the Swiss painter Charles GaGleyre in Paris. Renoir's early work was influenced by two Frartists, Claude Monet in his treatment of light and the romantic paEugne Delacroix in his treatment of color.

Renoir first exhibited his paintings in Paris in 1864, but henot gain recognition until 1874, at the first exhibition of painters o

new impressionist school.


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" Lady Sewing"


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" Doges' Palace Venice"


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" On The Terrace"


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" The Promenade"


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" M ixed Fl owers in an Earthenware Jug"


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" La Loge"


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" Near the Lake"


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" Ball at M oul in de la Galette"


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" La Grenouillre"


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Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)


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Gauguin was born in Paris on June 7, 1848, into a liberal middle-cfamily. After an adventurous early life, including a four-year stay in Peruhis family and a stint in the French merchant marine, he became a succ

Parisian stockbroker, settling into a comfortable bourgeois existence witwife and five children. In 1874, after meeting the artist Camille Pissarrviewing the first impressionist exhibition, he became a collector and am painter. He exhibited with the impressionists in 1876, 1880, 1881, 18821886. In 1883 he gave up his secure existence to devote himself to paintinwife and children, without adequate subsistence, were forced to return tfamily. From 1886 to 1891 Gauguin lived mainly in rural Brittany (excepttrip to Panama and Martinique from 1887 to 1888), where he was the cena small group of experimental painters known as the school of Pont-AUnder the influence of the painter mile Bernard, Gauguin turned awayimpressionism and adapted a less naturalistic style, which he called synthHe found his inspiration in the art of indigenous peoples, in medieval stglass, and in Japanese prints; he was introduced to Japanese prints by the Dartist Vincent van Gogh when they spent two months together in Arles, isouth of France, in 1888. Gauguin's new style was characterized by the ularge flat areas of nonnaturalistic color .


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In 1891, ruined and in debt, Gauguin sailed for the South Seaescape European civilization andeverything that is artificial andconventional. Except for one visit to France from 1893 to 1895, he remain the Tropics for the rest of his life, first in Tahiti and later in the Marq

Islands. The essential characteristics of his style changed little in the Seas; he retained the qualities of expressive color, denial of perspectivethick, flat forms. Under the influence of the tropical setting and Polynculture, however, Gauguin's paintings became more powerful, while the sumatter became more distinctive, the scale larger, and the compositions simplified. His subjects ranged from scenes of ordinary life, such as TahWomen, or On the Beach, to brooding scenes of superstitious dread, suSpirit of the Deadwatching.


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"Tahitian Women"


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" Br eton L andscape"


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" Still L I fe & 3 Puppies


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" F armhouse in Br ittany"


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"Riders on the Beach"


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" The White Horse"


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Diego Velzquez(1599-1660)


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Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velzquezwas a Spanish paintewho is considered to have been the country's greatest baroque artistwith Francisco de Goya and El Greco, forms the great triumviraSpanish painting.


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"Las Meninas"


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"The Forge of Vulcan"


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Guido Reni(1575 - 1642)


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Guido Reni was an Italian painter and engraver from BologAfter training at the Carracci Academy he made several visits to Rwhere he established himself as a leading Baroque artist and a riv

Caravaggio


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"Angel of the Annunciation"


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" Aurora"


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"St Cecilia"


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While financially successful Gerome was not commercmotivated. He frequently painted pictures that he had little chanselling and often gave them away to his friends. In addition when he

up sculpture later in his life he made a practice of underpricing his wHis reasoning was that since state funds allocated to sculpture welimited he didn't want to be paid the high price he could command fwork


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"The Bath"


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Vincent van Gogh(1853-1890)


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Van Gogh was born March 30, 1853, in Groot-Zundert, son Dutch Protestant pastor. Early in life he displayed a moody, restemperament that was to thwart his every pursuit. By the age of 2had been in turn a salesman in an art gallery, a French tutor, a theolostudent, and an evangelist among the miners at Wasmes in Belgiumexperiences as a preacher are reflected in his first paintings of peaand potato diggers; of these early works, the best known is the roearthy Potato Eaters. Dark and somber, sometimes crude, these works evidence van Gogh's intense desire to express the misery

poverty of humanity as he saw it among the miners in Belgium.

I 1886 G gh t t P i t li ith hi b th Th


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In 1886 van Gogh went to Paris to live with his brother ThoGogh, an art dealer, and became familiar with the new art movemdeveloping at the time. Influenced by the work of the impressionist

by the work of such Japanese printmakers as Hiroshige and HokusaGogh began to experiment with current techniques. Subsequentlyadopted the brilliant hues found in the paintings of the French aCamille Pissarro and Georges Seurat.

In 1888 van Gogh left Paris for southern France, where, unde burning sun of Provence, he painted scenes of the fields, cypress peasants, and rustic life characteristic of the region. During this peliving at Arles, he began to use the swirling brush strokes and inyellows, greens, and blues associated with such typical workBedroom at Arles, and Starry Night. For van Gogh all vis phenomena, whether he painted or drew them, seemed to be endwith a physical and spiritual vitality.


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For a time he was in a hospital at Arles. He then spent a yethe nearby asylum of Saint-Rmy, working between repeated spelmadness. Under the care of a sympathetic doctor, whose portra painted (Dr. Gachet), van Gogh spent three months at Auvers. Justcompleting his ominous Crows in the Wheatfields, he shot himseJuly 27, 1890, and died two days later.


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"Self Portrait with Straw Hat"


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"Blossoming Chestnut Branches"


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"Roses in a Vase"


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"The Starry Night"


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"Irises"


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"Courtyard, Hospital in Arles"


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"Cafe Terrace at Night"


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F ishing Boats on the Beach


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"The Potato Eaters"


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"Garden of St Paul's Hospital"


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"Sunflowers, Blue Background"


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Edvard Munch(1863- 1944)


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Edvard Munch was a Norwegian artist whose brooding and angu

paintings and graphic works, based on personal grief and obsesswere instrumental in the development of expressionism.Perhaps the best known of all Munch's work is The Scream. Tamongst others reflect Munch's childhood trauma, of losing his mand sister to tuberculosis


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" The Scream"


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Paul Klee(1879 - 1940)


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A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, ogently humorous works are replete with allusions to dreams, music poetry, Paul Klee is difficult to classify. Primitive art, surrealism, cuand children's art all seem blended into his small-scale, del paintings, watercolors, and drawings


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" M ask with the L ittle F lag"


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" Once Emerged from the Grey of Night"


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Wassily Kandinsky

(1866 - 1944)


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Ranked among the artists whose work changed the history of athe early years of the 20th century, the Russian abstract painter WaKandinsky is generally regarded as one of the originators of abs painting, or abstract expressionism. In both his painting andtheoretical writings he influenced modern styles. Spending many

of his life in Germany, Kandinsky became an instrumental force idevelopment of German expressionism.


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" F lood I mprovisation"


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" Colorful Li fe"


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John William

Godward(1861-1922)


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Inspired by the painter Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Godwimitated his Neoclassical style. Both were counted among the memof the "Marble School," known for its depictions of subjects drawn ancient Greek and Roman life placed in elaborate settings,

especially careful and realistic rendering of details like marbleflowers.


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"Dolce Far Niente"


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Pablo Ruiz y Picassowas a Spanish painter and sculptogenerally considered the greatest artist of the 20th century. He unique as an inventor of forms, as an innovator of styles and technias a master of various media, and as one of the most prolific artishistory. He created more than 20,000 works


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" Les Demoiselles"


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" Aficionado"


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" The Jester"


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