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Henri-Edmond Cross (20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910)
Henri-Edmond Cross was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri-Edmond_Cross
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Jacob Jordaens (19 May 1593 – 18 October 1678)
Jacob (Jacques) Jordaens was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and tapestry designer known for his history paintings, genre scenes and portraits. After Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, he was the leading Flemish Baroque painter of his day. Unlike those contemporaries he never travelled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to…
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Jan Pieter Veth (May 18, 1864 – July 1, 1925)
Jan Pieter Veth (18 May 1864, Dordrecht – 1 July 1925, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter, poet, art critic and university lecturer. He is especially noted as a portrait painter. Amongst his sitters were Max Liebermann, Lambertus Zijl, Frank van der Goes, Antoon Derkinderen and other contemporaries including various fellow painters. Jan Veth was the son…
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A.J. CASSON was a Canadian painter who was born in 1898
His work is currently being shown at Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Art Gallery of Alberta have featured Alfred Joseph Casson’s work in the past. Alfred Joseph Casson’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 12 USD to 1,138,597 USD, depending on the size and…
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Tamara de Lempicka
(Polish, 1898–1980) Tamara de Lempicka was a Polish painter known for her distinctive Art Deco style. In her self-portraits and depictions of chic figures, Lempicka simplified volume and space into tubular and crystalline forms. “My goal is never to copy, but to create a new style, clear luminous colors and feel the elegance of the models,”…
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Jasper Johns and his paintings
Jasper Johns was an artist that came onto the scene in the 1950s. Much of the work that he created led the American public away from the expressionism form, and towards an art movement or form known as the concrete. He would depict many flags and maps, and this created a more distinct style with the…
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Why Thomas Gainsborough’s Iconic ‘Blue Boy’ Was Once the Most Famous Painting in the World
A hundred years since it was last displayed in the United Kingdom, Thomas Gainsborough’s Blue Boy has returned to the National Gallery in London. “It has never been lent since its departure from the U.K.—until now,” the institution said in a statement, adding that the portrait, “is unlikely to ever be lent again.” The famed 1770 portrait of…
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Georges Braque (13 May 1882 – 31 August 1963)
A prominent figure in the development of cubism, Georges Braque was a French painter and sculptor. As a young adult, he worked during the day as a house painter and decorator, in the same line of work as his father and grandfather, and he attended evening classes at the School of Fine Arts in Le…
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Marriage of Reason and Squalor – Saint Louis Art Museum
NOTES With a housepainter’s brush, Frank Stella methodically applied industrial enamel paint to the surface of this canvas. Thick black bands form concentric rectangles cut off along the bottom edge while thin off-white lines reveal unpainted portions of the canvas. The artist used an extra thick stretcher, a novel decision in 1959 that allowed Stella…
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“I don’t do drugs. I am a drug.” – Salvador Dali
Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquess of Dalí of Púbol gcYC, known as Salvador Dalí, was a Spanish surrealist artist renowned for his technical skill, precise draftsmanship, and the striking and bizarre images in his work. Wikipedia Born: May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain Died: January 23, 1989, Figueres, Spain