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…
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)…
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…
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……
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…
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…
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…