Posts Tagged ‘Post-Impressionist’

Paul Gauguin, An Originator Of Tahitian Paintings

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 [...]


Five Fascinating Facts About Vincent Van Gogh

Five Fascinating Facts About Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-impressionist painter who was born in 1853 and died at the relatively young age of thirty seven in 1890. Vincent Van Gogh paintings are now revered all over the world for their bold use of color and emotional intensity. However Vincent Van Gogh is not just famous for his [...]


From Classicism To Impressionism – Lifespan Works By Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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 [...]


Van Gogh’s Self-Portraits Paintings

Van Gogh's Self-Portraits Paintings

“My work is usually a significantly better diversion compared to anything else in any respect, and if I could actually plunge into it, with all of my strength, it would most likely be the greatest treatment. The impossibility of having models, and a number of several other things, prevent me personally from doing so.” When [...]


Impressionist Amazing Success In The United States

Impressionist Amazing Success In The United States

In New York, from April 10 to May 25, 1886, throughout areas of the American Art Association, Durand-Ruel holds the very first exhibit in The United States entirely focused upon Impressionist paintings, entitled “Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris.” Displayed to the American general public are generally 300 oil paintings, included in [...]


Van Gogh’s Paintings of Chairs

Van Gogh's Paintings of Chairs

Vincent Van Gogh paintings of two chairs; Vincent Chair with his Pipe and Gauguin Chair with Candle. Each of them dominating the painting is appears in. Positioned at an angle, touching the edges of the canvas, they have a monumental quality, and seem to be saying: “Go ahead, sit down.” Both chairs are unoccupied. There [...]


Van Gogh’s The Yellow House

Van Gogh's The Yellow House

Vincent Van Gogh had been living in guest houses ever since he arrived in Arles. He rented a store for the pile of oil paintings that soon accumulated; this store was to do down in art history as “The Yellow House” when he moved in that September. Every morning he would leave his lodgings, heavily [...]


Van Gogh And His Love For Japonism Designs

Van Gogh And His Love For Japonism Designs

With out a doubt, Van Gogh most daring venture will be the Italian Girl with Carnations. His model here may have already been Agostina Segatori again, as inside the Cafe Du Tambourin portrait, the woman’s complete lips and broad nose suggest it significantly. On this image Van Gogh’s Japonism attracts upon resources that have little [...]


The Formations Connected With The Impressionists From 1860-1870

The Formations Connected With The Impressionists From 1860-1870

The pictorial formation of the Impressionists comes about in lots of ways, not simply because of their total different associations with the institutionalized schools connected with painting, sometimes cordial, sometimes unfavorable, but in addition simply because come from various social classes with various family backgrounds. Renoir’s biological father is really a humble tailor in Limoges, [...]