Impressionismi

In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cezanne was the 'father of us all', his approach to color and perspective paving the way for later modernist art movements such as Cubism …

Claude Monet was undoubtedly the most important of all the Impressionist painters and his water lily paintings represent the culminating moment in his career. Monet's famous garden …

The Anglo-American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) is a household name – a man who inspired and astonished the Victorian world. Less well known, though, is the …

Gauguin’s paintings are redolent of the South Sea islands, full of exotic women, vibrant flora, and brilliant color. In addition, his scenes range from normal life in France’s …

A wide-ranging exploration of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-siècle France   At the end of the nineteenth century, artists such as Claude Monet, Eva Gonzale`s, …

Alone of his contemporaries, J.M.W. Turner is commonly held to have prefigured modern painting, as signalled in the existence of The Turner Prize for contemporary art. Our …

Paul Cézanne – a solitary genius who overcame opposition from his family, friends and the official Salon – made painting the sole preoccupation of his life. He worked unceasingly …

He did not paint his pictures; it was like he exhaled them in a gasping, boiling breath - Julius Meier-GraefVan Gogh's distinctive style of expressive brushstrokes and bold colors …

Ludvig Karsten (1876–1926) var en malerisk rebell og impulsiv individualist sombrukte sterke farger og ekspressive penselstrøk. Ikke minst var han en stilistiskkameleon som nøt …

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he …