Robert McGinnis (b.1926): The Exhibition, Gouache on board
Art Scott in his The Art of Robert E. McGinnis wrote that McGinnis is “one of the most widely seen and admired… His colleagues at the Society of Illustrators recognized that fact when he was elected to the Illustrators’ Hall of Fame in…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919): Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876 - Renoir’s main aim was to convey the vivacious and joyful atmosphere of this popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre. The study of the moving crowd, bathed in natural and artificial light, is handled using vibrant,…
Georgy Kurasov (b. 1958): Love Letter, 2001 - Kurasov's artwork combines surrealism and abstraction and yet, it is narrative and iconic…
Although a challenge, he has found a balance in all these elements of artistic expression…
Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1683/84): Still Life with Books (1628)
This painting dates from De Heem’s early career. The monochromatic composition (a style in vogue from 1625 onwards) contrasts powerfully with the sumptuous, colourful still lifes that the painter produced later in Antwerp… Professors…
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973): Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon), 1907. Although it is probably the single most analyzed picture of the century, ironically, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon was not exhibited in public until 1916. Picasso's friends felt that the highly distorted brothel…
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1618-1682): Beggar Boys Eating Grapes and Melon, c. 1650 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo was a Spanish Baroque painter… Although he is best known for his religious works, Murillo also produced a considerable number of paintings of contemporary women and children… These lively,…
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Jalais Hill, Pointoise (1867) “This little valley, this hill have a heroic simplicity and forthrightness. Nothing would be more banal were it not so grand…” Émile Zola wrote of the manner in which Pissarro handled his rural subject matter… Indeed, the positive reception…
Marc Chagall (1887-1985): I and the Village, 1911 This early work clearly shows both the Cubist and Fauvist influences at play in Chagall's canvas, yet unlike the works of Picasso or Matisse, Chagall is far more playful and liberal with decorative elements, creating a pastoral paradise out of the…
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944): Houses on the Gein (1900) is a good instance of Mondrian's manner and ideas around 1900, when he was twenty-eight and had just started painting landscapes in the surroundings of Amsterdam… Typical of the early Mondrian is the loose brush stroke, giving the impression of a…
Claude Monet (1840-1926): Bordighera, Italy, 1884
I haven't yet managed to capture the colour of this landscape; there are moments when I'm appalled at the colours I'm having to use, I'm afraid what I'm doing is just dreadful and yet I really am understating it; the light is simply terrifying.…
Joaquim Mir i Trinxet (or Joaquin Mir, 1873-1940): Canyelles
Joaquin Mir was a Catalan painter… Mir Trinxet painted landscapes in Tarragona and Majorca - perhaps his best known works - and certainly the ones that contributed most to create the myth of the artist that merged with nature and lost…
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Boulevard Montmartre, Afternoon Sun (1897)
Pissarro experimented with many styles: Realism in its underlying composition and depiction of cloud formations; Impressionism in its snapshot quality; and Neo-Impressionism in its use of complementary colors to heighten…
Amedeo Modigliani akt festményein nincs mitológiai vagy anekdotikus összefüggés… (Modigliani eltekint ezen ürügyektől) a nők szemérmetlenül őszintén láthatók…
Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920): Nude Looking over Her Right Shoulder (1917)
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986): Petunia No. 2 (1924)
Petunia No. 2, one of O'Keeffe's first large-scale renderings of a flower, represents the beginning of her exploration of a theme that would mark her career. In this painting, she magnifies the flower's form to emphasize its shape and color... She…
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903): Road to Versailles at Louveciennes (1869)
In this early Impressionist effort, Pissarro captures a fleeting sensation of the winter season, constructing his composition through the use of quick dashes of color. The long shadows cast on the new-fallen snow by passersby…