Kunsthistorie / kunst- og designstiler: ca.1800-1900
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"e;I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women..."e;Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt's paintings speak …
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy's parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Levy brothers' workshop, where he …
Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist's circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre's …
The seascapes of Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900) made his name in Russia, his native country where he was a painter of the court of Nicholas I, yet his fame barely extended beyond …
In the arts, Neoclassicism is a historical tradition or aesthetic attitude based on the art of Greece and Rome in antiquity. The movement started around the 18th-century, age of …
A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in …
For Claude Monet the designation 'impressionist' always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true …
« Je peins ce que je vois et non ce qu’il plaît aux autres de voir. » D’autres mots que ceux d’Édouard Manet, à la touche pourtant si différente de celle de Monet ou de Renoir, …
Entre 1880 et les premières années du XXe siècle, le Symbolisme voit le jour en France et en Europe. Les symbolistes, fascinés par les mythologies anciennes, tentent d’échapper au …
Si l’Impressionnisme marqua les premiers pas vers la peinture moderne en révolutionnant un milieu artistique étouffé par les conventions académiques, le Post-Impressionnisme, plus …