Tag: oil on canvas
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Sonia Delaunay, “Prismes électriques,” 1914, Oil on Canvas, Musée National d’Art Moderne
Sonia Delaunay was a French artist, who spent most of her working life in Paris. She was born in Odessa (then part of Russian Empire), and formally trained in Russian Empire and Germany before moving to France and expanding her practice to include textile, fashion, and set design. She co-founded the Orphism art movement, noted…
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Natasha Mirak, “Balance,” Oil on canvas
“This painting refers to the Renaissance and its praise of the mind. The girls we see are pure balance, love, respect and care. It is a metaphor for caring for nature and its resources, water, flora and fauna.”
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Alexis-Joseph Pérignon, “Marie Antoinette Gathering the Brushes of Madame Vigée Le Brun,” 1784, Painting, Oil on canvas
In 1784, a pregnant Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun arrived for a sitting at Versailles. In her eagerness to please the queen Marie-Antoinette, she spilled her brushes on the floor…
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Jean Metzinger, “Jeune Femme a la Mandoline,” 1923, Painting, Oil on canvas
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross. Between 1904 and 1907 Metzinger worked in the Divisionist and…
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Marie Bracquemond, “Under the Lamp,” 1887, Painting, Oil on Canvas, Private Collection
Marie Bracquemond married noted printmaker Félix Bracquemond, who helped popularize Japanese art in France. Together, they produced ceramic art for Haviland & Co., a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain. Marie’s frequent omission from books on artists is sometimes attributed to the efforts of her husband.
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Joseph Stella, “Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras,” 1913-14, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Joseph Stella was an Italian-born American Futurist painter best known for his depictions of industrial America, especially his images of the Brooklyn Bridge. He is also associated with the American Precisionist movement of the 1910s–1940s.
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Malvin Gray Johnson, “Self-Portrait,” 1934, Painting, Oil on Canvas, Smithsonian
Gray Johnson began painting at an early age when his sister Maggie noticed his talent and gave him drawing lessons and art supplies when he was a child. His early talent led him to win first place for his artworks in contests in his hometown’s annual fairs.
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George Luks, “Armistice Night,” 1918, Painting, Oil on canvas
“After travelling and studying in Europe, Luks worked as a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist in Philadelphia, where he became part of a close-knit group, led by Robert Henri, that set out to defy the genteel values imposed by the influential National Academy of Design. His best-known paintings reflect the life of the poor and hard-pressed…
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Erik Pevernagie, “Ruling the waves,” painting, Oil on canvas
“Erik Pevernagie (born 1939) is a Belgian painter and writer, living in Uccle (Brussels), who has held exhibitions in Paris, New York City, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Amsterdam, London, Brussels and Antwerp.” “He is the son and pupil of the expressionist painter, Louis Pevernagie (1904–1970).”
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Wassily Kandinsky, “Couple on Horseback,” 1906-07, painting, Oil on canvas, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art, possibly after Hilma af Klint. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law…
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