Malade by Gabriele Munter
"My pictures are all moments of life - I mean instantaneous visual experiences, generally noted very ...
Read allGreat masterpieces explained in plain English. Discover what makes them timeless, what inspired their creation, and the fantastic secretes hidden within.
"My pictures are all moments of life - I mean instantaneous visual experiences, generally noted very ...
Read all"Love and fantasy go hand in hand "- Marc Chagall It's her birthday and in a moment of emotion and ...
Read all“Monet is only an eye, but my God what an eye!” - Paul Cezanne 'The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of ...
Read all“I paint the white as well as the black, and the white is just as important.” - Franz Kline There ...
Read allWayne Thiebaud's landscapes look like aerial views of beautiful happy pieces of land and still-life paintings ...
Read all“Proudest and most arrogant man in France” * The pioneering artist of the 19th century, Realist painter ...
Read allMassacre of the Innocents c. 1611 – 12, has always been a popular theme in the visual arts, particularly ...
Read all"The excellence of a painting lies in its being alike, yet unlike. Too much likeness flatters the vulgar ...
Read all“I do as I can." There are some works of art that have always been surrounded by mystery. This is ...
Read allGirl with a Pearl Earring is perhaps one of Jan Vermeer's best known works the world over. The magnificent ...
Read all"You can turn the lights out. The paintings will carry their own fire." A painter whose style remains ...
Read all“Color is light on fire. Each color is the result of burning, for each substance burns with a particular ...
Read allMuch of an abstract painter's work is done days, months or even years before he or she ever picks us ...
Read allIn 1935 Wassily Kandinsky wrote to his art dealer J.B. Nauman: At the time I was dissatisfied with the ...
Read alla.k.a. The Happy Accidents of the Swing, 1767 Jean- Honoré Fragonard's The Swing was essentially a commission ...
Read allReconnais-toi Cette adorable personne c'est toi Sous le grand chapeau canotier Oeil Nez La ...
Read all"...both temptation and downfall incarnate, a high priestess of melancholy and a siren of joie de vivre." Picasso's La ...
Read all"Painting is a state of being. … Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is" "Is ...
Read all"I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works ...
Read allA critic once said about Steichen's work that he "is not satisfied showing us how a person looks, but ...
Read all"To paint a human figure you must not paint it; you must render the whole of its surrounding atmosphere ...
Read allConsidered to be the best draughtsman of his generation, Edgar Degas called his work the result of “premeditated ...
Read all“When we try to remember a dream... often we only retain a skeleton of the dream images... a vague grid, ...
Read allJMW Turner's landscapes have a divine, surrealistic and symbolic quality. His paintings may be viewed ...
Read allThe hidden face behind a thick curtain of hair is the sole object of La Chevelure (Hair) by Henri-Edmond ...
Read allSo lively, so fluid, so rich - these are some of the words that best describe Auguste Renoir's Luncheon ...
Read all“I have lived my art!” – Sonia Delaunay Simultaneous Contrasts, by Sonia Delaunay may be described ...
Read all"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
Read all"A portrait must be at once a painting and a careful evaluation of the face" Legend has it that around ...
Read all"I never judge, only chronicle." Today it’s probably hard to believe that this portrait of a young ...
Read all"Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance." Paul Signac's ...
Read all“One night I dreamed that I painted a large American flag, and the next morning I got up and I went out ...
Read all“The work of art will bring to light a new order inherent in things…the idea of unity.” Portrait of ...
Read all"You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate ...
Read allYou would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate ...
Read all— What was the color of the dress Madame was wearing while posing for the portrait? — Black, of course! The ...
Read all“Nature holds the beautiful, for the artist who has the insight to extract it. Thus, beauty lies even ...
Read all"The stripe is a signifier of modernism." The very first time you see a Sean Scully's painting you ...
Read allClaude Monet, probably the most famous French Impressionist painter, always found the subjects for his ...
Read all“I had gone shopping to the Galeries Lafayette and Picasso saw me coming out of the Métro. He simply ...
Read all"I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand." ...
Read all“Good painting is like good cooking; it can be tasted, but not explained.” This large rhythmically ...
Read all"There is no progress in art, any more than there is progress in making love. There are simply different ...
Read allWith pedantic care Jean-Léon Gérome painted his models and every detail of the setting - (click on the ...
Read allWe all know Toulouse-Lautrec's caricature-esque portrayals of the dancers and patrons of the Moulin Rouge, ...
Read allWhoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look ...
Read all“May the day come soon when I’ll be myself in the woods of an ocean island! To live there in ecstasy, ...
Read allIt's one of those paintings that come to symbolize a whole city. Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street; ...
Read allOne of the most beloved paintings by the Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn, The Polish Rider is also a ...
Read all“You look like a real thug. If I could paint you as I see you and a policeman saw the picture, he’d arrest ...
Read all"I think of my pictures as dramas, the shapes in the pictures are the performers." - Mark Rothko Аll ...
Read all"This is our Mona Lisa…" These were the words of Ronald Lauder, heir to the Estee Lauder cosmetics ...
Read all“I have had a joy from which no one can rob me – I have been able to touch some people with my art.” ...
Read all"It is a magic word, circus, a timeless dancing game where tears and smiles, the play of arms and legs ...
Read all“I had three versions. In the process of working I set out more and more demands from the purely painterly ...
Read all“To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only ...
Read all"The most joyful thing I know is the peace, the silence that one enjoys in the woods or on the tilled ...
Read allHere the artist captured a moment from Ovid's Echo and Narcissus a well known fable of a beautiful ...
Read all“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with ...
Read all"Suddenly my need for interpretation vanished, and the body, the form, the supremely perfected work became ...
Read all"…the creation of new forms, an extending and deepening of the problems of color. This will help me to ...
Read allYes, this is a rendition of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. No, this is not some cute digital artwork ...
Read all“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the ...
Read allTrust Henri Matisse to have a unique approach to well-known narratives of the Greek myths. Best known ...
Read all3 boats, Mt. Fuji and the ferocious curve of the great wave that threatens to consume anything that comes ...
Read allNature merely supplies us with inert materials. A human mind alone can arrange them in such a way that, ...
Read all"One must respect black, nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and it awakens no sensuality. ...
Read all“It is the treating of the commonplace with the feelings of the sublime that gives to art its true power.” One ...
Read allA first photo copy machine, if you will. A revolutionary way that allowed the artist to reproduce an ...
Read all"The artist's problem of retaining the true pure strength of color depends on keeping the pigments separate ...
Read allArt and design of the Jazz Age epitomized the glamour of the era. Bold color, shimmery metallics, and ...
Read allAnyone who has ever come across this painting is unlikely to forget the emotional imagery and a feeling ...
Read all“Suprematism is the rediscovery of pure art, which, in the course of time, had become obscured by the ...
Read all"Art has a harmony which parallels that of nature…" This is a seemingly simple composition by Paul ...
Read all“It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations ...
Read all"I have seized the light. I have arrested its flight." Before the Polaroids, the Hasselblads, the ...
Read allA master painter of the Northern Baroque Peter Paul Rubens, born in 1577, is famous for imbuing his portraits ...
Read all"An admirable demolisher of academic formulae, [who] also had a genius for light..." - August Rodin Everyone ...
Read allAvenue de Clichy by Louis Anquetin sweeps us into a rainy twilight in Montmartre, where lights from the ...
Read allBarnett Newman famously said about his monolithic Vir Heroicus Sublimis that he expects the viewer ...
Read all"I prefer to tack the un-stretched canvas to the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the ...
Read all"Starting a painting is starting an argument in terms of canvas and paint." Don't feel bad if you've ...
Read allIt is very well to copy what one sees; it's much better to draw what one has retained in one's memory. ...
Read allThe intention of abstraction is to connect with the viewer on a deeply emotional level, so it's always ...
Read allIt's the utopian urban landscapes first imagined at the start of the 20th century. The then-Imperial ...
Read allIt's no different, really, from meeting another person. One has a reaction to the person physically. ...
Read allThis portrait is done with pastels! A portrait of a neatly dressed young girl gracefully holding a tray ...
Read all“It takes a very long time to become young.” - Pablo Picasso Picasso painted this portrait of a Parisian ...
Read all"Technically, every work of art comes into being in the same way as the cosmos — by means of catastrophes, ...
Read allRichard Serra is one of those contemporary artists who are either loved without question or wholly misunderstood ...
Read allThere has always been something enigmatic about Hieronymus Bosch and his shockingly abundant allegorical ...
Read allThis painting by the famous Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872 - 1944) is filled with the warm glow of ...
Read allProbably the most famous still life painter of the last 200 years - Paul Cezanne, is credited with laying ...
Read allThis is one of 5 paintings titled The Five Senses painted in 1617 - 1618 by two Flemish masters Jan Brueghel ...
Read allEvery since his arrival from California via Harvard to New York City in 1940 Robert Motherwell became ...
Read all"For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at any moment." Le ...
Read all“The landscapes were in my arms as I did it,” Ms. Frankenthaler told an interviewer. “I didn’t realize ...
Read all“If they are beautiful, it is because they have a natural way of producing the right movements…” Graceful ...
Read all"The challenge to me was to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would ...
Read all"Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look ...
Read all"It’s hard to look at paintings. You have to be able to bring all sorts of things together in your mind, ...
Read all"Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science." George Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande ...
Read all“Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.” When it comes to celebrity status ...
Read all"It takes me weeks to make up my mind which group of bottles will go well with a particular tablecloth. ...
Read all“My painting carries with it the message of pain.” Perhaps, no other quote describes Frida Kahlo’s ...
Read allAnd the blind seer said to his mother, "If he but fail to recognize himself, a long life he may have, ...
Read all“It is as though he [Joan Miro] had decided to condense all that he loves most - women, the night, stars, ...
Read allJosé Victoriano Carmelo Carlos González-Pérez, better known as the great Spanish cubist Juan Gris (1887-1927) ...
Read allPierre-Auguste Renoir observed that Manet was as important to them “as Cimabue or Giotto were to the ...
Read all"Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul ...
Read all“I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.” One of the most revolutionary movements of the twentieth ...
Read all"I have a portrait of Dr. Gachet with the heart-broken expression of our time." Van Gogh wrote to ...
Read all"I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players ...
Read all"Defining modernism in American art is a slippery task. As an art historical term, ‘modern’ refers to ...
Read allEgon Schiele is probably best known for his provocative nudes and deeply revealing self-portraits, but ...
Read allThe girls in this painting titled Two Sisters are not actually sisters! They are young models Pierre-Auguste ...
Read allImagine training for 20-25 years before you were ever allowed to take up a real brush and paint? Filling ...
Read allSpeed! Technology! Destruction! These were the battle cries of the Futurists, a movement launched by ...
Read all"The beautiful is always bizarre." Next to the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte - Napoleon I on his ...
Read all"We called [the] process “photomontage,” because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. ...
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