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Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...
The blue murals cover T-Centralen the hub of the Stockholm metro.
Album art for the Miles Davis album Bitches Brew.
Christopher Perkins’ (1891–1968) Taranaki was highly influential in the development of the regional style in New Zealand painting that was dominant from the 1930s to the 1950s. Perkins placed a dairy factory, which he saw as a sign of progress, in front of a sharply stylised mountain. The work was based on the hard-edged...
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Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917)...
After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...
Janis Rozentāls...
‘My biomorphic fiber wall hangings are inspired by the lines and patterns of microscopic/cellular imagery which I find visually and metaphorically rich. All changes in essence happen on that infinitesimal level and result in the world we experience. My work is a kind of invented biology zooming in on that fundamental nature of...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
One of the 200 Japanese wood carvings Manet collected in his lifetime. The introduction of Japanese art to the west had a huge impact, it is said to be the influence of the impressionist movement in france.
A realist painter who often depicted his native NYC, Dinnerstein was a precursor to Bo Bartlett’s heavy-handed symbolism in the American Realist Movement....
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1859-1924)...
Jacob Lawrence (American, b.1917, d.2000)...
Sidney Sime (1865-1941).
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...
Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf. In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official...
