Tag: painting
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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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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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Jeanne Mammen, “Church on Winterfeldtplatz,” 1935-1940, Painting (oil, embroidery canvas, paper and cakelace)¹
Jeanne Mammen was a German painter and illustrator of the Weimar period. Her work is associated with the New Objectivity and Symbolism movements.
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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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John Singer Sargent, “Muddy Alligators,” 1917, Painting, Watercolor over graphite on paper
“John Singer Sargent was an American expatriate artist, considered the “leading portrait painter of his generation” for his evocations of Edwardian-era luxury. He created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings.”
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Evelyn De Morgan, “Flora,” 1894, Painting, Oil on canvas
Evelyn De Morgan was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symbolism. Her paintings are figural, foregrounding the female body through the use of spiritual, mythological, and allegorical themes. They rely on a range of metaphors…
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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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Eva Gonzalès, “Lady with a Fan,” 1869-70, Painting, Pastel on paper affixed to board
Eva Gonzalès was born in Paris and became introduced to sophisticated literary and art circles at an early age by her father, writer Emmanuel Gonzalès. In 1865, at age sixteen, Eva Gonzales began her professional training and art lessons in drawing from the society portraitist Charles Chaplin. Through her father’s connections as a founding president…
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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.