André Kertész, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic composition and photojournalism who gained critical acclaim for his image distortions. Born in Hungary, he moved from Paris to New York during World War II. In 1963, he returned to Paris…
Henri Lebasque (French, 1865-1937): Jeune Fille Lisant et Vase de Fleurs, c.1915 (Oil on canvas) - Hailed as the painter of “joy and light” by the critics and curators of the Louvre during his lifetime, Lebasque’s primary concern was the simple expression of sensuous surface. Lebasque began his…
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973): Girl with a Mandolin (Fanny Tellier), 1910 (Oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art New York) - “…is not only one of the most beautiful, lyrical and accessible of all Cubist paintings, but is also a valuable document of the period…Picasso saw the work as unfinished,…
Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920): The Cellist, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Artist Kurt Stoermer admired the painting’s “extremely subtle technique,” which, through an artistic differentiation of colours, allowed the musician to merge into his instrument and showed him in a curious state of reverie……
Géza Vörös (Hungarian, 1897-1957): Woman with a Book, 1943 (Oil on canvas) - The École de Paris is not an art movement or a learning institution, but instead is more indicative of the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century…
A pupil of Ede Balló,…
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863–1944): The Sun, 1909 (Oil on canvas) - Illuminated by the sunrays are the water of the ocean, the bare rocks of a Northern landscape, and a slim strip of verdant green that separated land and sea. A clean, straight horizon line divides the waters from sky. The great sun…
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938): Street, Berlin, 1913 (Oil on canvas, The Museum of Modern Art, New York) - Kirchner is renowned for his many Berlin street scenes, and this particular work is perhaps his most well known from that category, if not his entire catalog. His jagged, angular…
Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883): On the Beach, 1873 (Oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay) - At Berck-sur-Mer, Manet had his wife and his brother pose for him on the beach; grains of sand are mixed with the paint. Suzanne, well protected against the sun and the wind by a muslin veil and a voluminous…
“Shadow dancer. With otherworldly grace, Scott brings to life the costume of Giselle.”
Amber Scott dances on the beach - Photograph by Will Davidson – (From editorial „Heavenly Creatures” styled by Jillian Davidson for Vogue Australia’s November 2012 issue. Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the…
Claude Monet (1840-1926): Flowers on the riverbank at Argenteuil, 1877 (Pola Museum of Art, Japan) - Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as…
József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927): Parisian Woman, 1891 - József Rippl-Rónai was a Hungarian painter. He first introduced modern artistic movements in the Hungarian art… In 1884 he travelled to Munich to study painting at the Academy. Two years later he obtained a grant which enabled him to move to…
Claude Monet (1840-1926): Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) 1872 - Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting… The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first…
Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890): Self-portrait as a painter, 1888 (Oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam) - Van Gogh depicts himself as an artist, with all the necessary equipment: palette, brushes, and a canvas on a wooden easel. Contrasting colors, such as the blue of the smock and the…
Géza Vörös (Hungarian, 1897-1957): Reading Woman, (Ecole de Paris. Oil on canvas)
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.” - Robertson Davies
Róbert Berény (Hungarian, Fauvism, 1887-1953): Woman Playing Cello, 1928 (Oil on canvas, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest) - When Berény returned to Hungary in 1928, he became a leading member of a group of artists whose main aim was to produce art that would draw on tradition, while retaining…