Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926): Woman with a Parasol - Madame Monet and Her Son, 1875 - One of Monet’s most popular figure paintings, Lady with a Parasol showcases the parasol, one of his longstanding themes… The parasol itself makes many appearances in his work, primarily because when painting…
John Koch (American, 1909-1978): Night, 1964 - What a waste of a beautiful women! This is the problem with many men. Let this painting be a lesson to such kind of men. If I'm there I will hug and kiss her. Don't say she has gone for a sexcapade... - szingy gallery
Robert Delaunay (French, 1885-1941): Nude Woman Reading (Nu à la lecture),1915 (Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne) - Delaunay painted three versions of Nude Woman Reading between 1915 and 1920 and each one is a spectacular transformation. The first is a depiction of a woman…
Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935): Improvisation, 1899 (Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum) - Inspired perhaps by the warm spring day, a breeze through the window, the portrait on the wall before her, and cut poppies and dahlias, the woman improvises a composition on her piano in her…
Hugó Scheiber (Hungarian, 1873-1950): Dancer (Mixed technique) - The vivid colors of Dancer are a constant feature throughout Scheiber’s work. Details such as the rippling waves of hair and his spontaneous and active brush strokes are characteristic of Scheiber’s Futurist oeuvre of the 1920’s.…
Henri Lebasque (French, 1865-1937): Le Cannet, Madame Lebasque Reading in the Garden, 1923 (Oil on canvas) - In 1924, Lebasque moved to Le Cannet on the French Riviera, where he and his friend Bonnard shared a manikin for their studies. Lebasque was called “the painter of joy and light,” by both…
János Thorma (Hungarian, 1870-1937): In the Field (Oil on canvas) - A representative figure of the Nagybánya artists’ colony, which started in 1896... Thorma moved through different styles... He shifted from the naturalism that was the aesthetic of the colony, to historical subjects, to romantic…
Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983): Horse, Pipe, and Red Flower, 1920 (Oil on canvas, Philadelphia Museum of Art) - Valós tárgyak elbújva a fantáziák és az álmok rejtekében, az elsőre felfoghatatlan összefüggés: a zagyvaságban minden a helyén van (mint az életben)…
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899): Fog, Voisins, 1874 (Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France) - Sisley, along with Monet, was one of the central proponents of the plein air technique, using this method in his famous paintings of the Voisins countryside, where he moved in 1871. Unlike Degas, Renoir,…
Camille Pissarro (Danish-French, 1830-1903): The Red Roofs, a Corner of a Village, Winter Effect, 1877 (Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay) - The Red Roofs, Corner of a Village, Winter Effect is a relatively small canvas… In this painting we see a small cluster of houses through the trees of an orchard.…
Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956): Number 1 - Lavender Mist, 1950 (Oil on canvas, National Gallery, Washington DC) - Number 1 (Lavender Mist) exemplifies gestural abstraction, in which paint was poured or applied with extreme physicality to reflect the artist's inner mind. The color is…
Frank Bramley (British, 1857–1915): Delicious Solitude, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Here, a lady absorbed in reading is likely the painter’s wife Katherine… By this stage the painter had completely abandoned the systematic square brushwork of his youth and his handling of the work was more painterly…
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Vegetable Garden with Trees in Blossom, Spring, Pontoise, 1877 (Oil painting on canvas, Musee d'Orsay) - Colour, and the technique: Pissarro has quickly applied his brush, heavy with individual colours, to form dashes of pure pigment. The build-up of paint caused by…
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954): Interior, Nice, 1919 (Oil on canvas, The Barnes Foundation) - Matisse crafts a scene of a sensuous woman reading while seated in a comfortable, light-filled interior setting that provides a lovely, intimate view of the early 20th century décor. A sense of intimacy…
Casa Batlló is a key feature in the architecture of modernist Barcelona. It was built by Antoni Gaudí between 1904 and 1906 having been commissioned by the textile industrialist Josep Batlló. Nowadays, the spectacular facade is an iconic landmark in the city. The "Manzana de la Discordia", or Block…