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The adventures and triumph of Henri Matisse
At the outset the art of Henri Matisse was very conservative and it was natural that he should e participated in the very official Salon...
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Jun 1610 min read


Dadaism’s seeds of its own destruction.
The Dada Movement developed between 1915 and 1922, between the dispersal of Cubism - from which it borrowed, and generalized for its own...
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Apr 283 min read


Modigliani’s something dark, complicated and sometimes irrational
Like so many other painters, he discovered Cézanne on his arrival in Paris. There he also made friends with the sculptor Brancusi, who...
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Mar 314 min read
Claude Monet
In 1840, the French painter Claude Monet was born. Monet is the most Impressionist of impressionists, and his work is the symbol of the...
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Oct 14, 20241 min read


Graham Sutherland
In 1903, the English painter Graham Sutherland was born. After studying at the Goldsmiths School of Art, he concentrated on etching and...
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Oct 7, 20241 min read


Joan Miro
In Montriog in 1893, Joan Miro was born. At fourteen he entered the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona and attended courses at the Gali...
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Oct 1, 20241 min read


Marc Chagall
In 1887, Marc Chagall was born in Vitebsk, Russia. Chagalls earlier works were based on everyday familiar subjects, water carriers,...
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Sep 23, 20242 min read


Raoul Dufy
The French painter was born in Havre in 1877. Dufy was a painter of joy, the joy of seeing, imagining and creating, without ever...
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Sep 18, 20241 min read


John Piper
John Piper was born in 1903. He studied at the Royal College of Art and the Slade school. Piper came to painting rather late, and began...
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Sep 8, 20241 min read


Henry Moore.
Henry Moore was born in Castleford, Yorkshire in 1894. After studying at the Leeds School of Art and later at the Royal College of Art in...
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Aug 20, 20241 min read


The delight of Paul Klee’s metamorphosis.
Even more than the variations of Picasso, whose genius recapitulates the history of forms, Klee's art opens on the future. His work is...
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Aug 7, 20245 min read


Van Dongen’s Moments of Independence
Dutch painter, Cornelius “Kees” van Dongen astonished his family by his precocious gifts. When still an adolescent, he drew and painted...
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Jul 30, 20243 min read


The deep unending well of Pablo Picasso
The early work of Picasso reveals a remarkable ability to fuse his own ideas with those of the great masters as well as a diverse range...
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Jul 22, 20242 min read


Cubism and ways of perception
The movement was at first given its name in derision. Like Impressionism, Cubism encountered general hostility and incomprehension. It...
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Jul 8, 20242 min read


A brief overview of John Piper
Great houses a low skies most readily associated with John Piper
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Jul 2, 20242 min read
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