Monet Reproductions Gives A Classic Touch In The Home
Blue Water Lilies by Claude Monet Monet reproductions are popular among art lovers because of Claude Monet’s light and nature-themed painting style. Many people like the realistic nature of his works especially with his painting series in which he experimented with lighting and colors. If you are among the many that are not familiar [...]
Claude Monet’s 1890s Exhibitions Reveal the Magic of Light
Even a vague familiarity with Monet’s work renders one in awe of his mastery. Stacks of grain, trees, mountains, valleys and gothic cathedrals are the hallmarks of his series paintings. To the untrained or less perceptible eye, this natural common thread may appear repetitive. However, the exhibition of Monet’s 1890s series paintings reveals that light [...]
Claude Monet’s Boulevard des Capucines Oil Painting
In 1974, Nadar, a close friend of the great Impressionist Claude Monet, held the first ever Impressionist exhibition. One of the most notable works to be included in that show was a Monet painting that featured his impressions of a view from Nadar’s window. However, Monet actually painted two different paintings of Boulevard des Capucines, [...]
Claude Monet – The Man Behind Impressionist Art Movement
Claude Monet started a simple painting but turned into something more because of a painting he named Impression Sunrise. Because of the given name artist all over the world decide to call the whole art movement and style the Impressionist Art. Monet was soon considered as the founder of impressionist art right then. Monet did [...]
Paul Gauguin, An Originator Of Tahitian Paintings
Paul Gauguin bought into his paintings mystery and personality. He would combine people and objects in unique novel ways and make those who looked at them consider all the elements of the painting. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris in 1848 to a father that was a journalist. When Gauguin was only 3 years old [...]
Gustave Caillebotte – An Art Supporter and Legend All in One
Gustave Caillebotte is a well know realistic impressionist painter from France whose work can be found right here at www.ArtHeaven.com. Caillebotte was known for his true depictions of the world around him. He felt no need to include theatrics into his work like many other artists do. He simply painted what he saw as he [...]
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Passionate Artist Suffering From Arthritis But Creating Amazing Paintings
Arthritis is normally something that prevents anyone from being an active as before. Arthritis causes pain in many parts of the human body. Most commonly you will find people with arthritis in their hands and their legs. This painful medical issue never stopped Pierre-Auguste Renoir from creating beautiful oil paintings that changed the art world forever. [...]
The Impressionists Original Guiding Light – Edouard Manet
One amongst Manet oil painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere painted in 1881. Despite the fact that Edouard Manet isn’t going to participate in many of the eighth Impressionist exhibits showcasing exclusively Impressionist oil paintings, critics have constantly agreed in considering him the actual Impressionists’ guiding light, their own primary source of inspiration. He was [...]
Edouard Manet – Paving the Way for Modern Art
Edouard Manet was a French painter whose work was said to pave the way to modern day art. His early works were highly controversial because of the way they rallied against the Impressionist pieces of the time. Manet focused on life situations that appeared as Realism and Impressionist Art at the same time. He was [...]
William Adolphe Bouguereau – Bringing Mythology to Life
William Adolphe Bouguereau is an incredible artist from the 19th Century whose work is still being admired today. This French artist focused around a realistic look in all of his artwork, which you can see with the oil painting reproductions offered here at www.ArtsHeaven.com. His paintings literally look like pictures, no matter what their subjects [...]
Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec – Putting Bohemia Into Art
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a well known French painter with an interesting path to art. In his early teen years, Toulouse-Lautrec fractured his thigh bones. The break never healed properly, so his legs never fully grew. Instead, he had a fully grown upper body but only 4’11” of height by the time he reached adulthood. [...]
Henri Rousseau – Ridiculed In Life, Cherished In Death
Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist painter whose work has been labeled primitive and naive. Some people also referred to him as Le Douanier, which means the customs officer. This nickname was spawned from the place he worked at for the time. Henri Rousseau was entirely self taught, but his work did not always receive [...]
Paul Cezanne – Oil Paintings Transitioning From The 19th To 20th Century
There was a massive difference between the way that art was formed in the 19th Century in comparison to works of the 20th Century. While few artists were able to bridge the gap between the two styles, Paul Cezanne did just that. This French painter was literally known as the bridge between those two centuries, [...]
Jean Simeon Chardin – Still Life Paintings Brought To Life
A lot of artists like to paint the unusual an abstract, while others stick with what they have to work with. Jean Simeon Chardin was one of the latter. Chardin is arguably one of the best French Rococo painters of the 18th Century, and his still life and simple interior works are now available for [...]
The Life And Times Of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, An Impressionist Master
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, famous Impressionist painter, was born to a working class family on February 25th, 1841, in Limages, France. In 1844, the family was moved to Paris, where his father was employed as a tailor. As a young boy of ten, Renoir began an apprenticeship as a porcelain painter where he would work for four [...]
From Classicism To Impressionism – Lifespan Works By Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was obviously a really flexible artist. The subject matter connected with his works of art range from the vibrancy connected with crowds of people in the heart of Paris to the relaxed atmosphere of a summer’s day from the French countryside. He has also been a prolific portrait artist and still life [...]
