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Mère et enfant au bord du lac painting by André Gisson. Example of the artist's impressionist brush work. André Gisson (1921 – July 28, 2003) was an American Impressionist painter. He graduated from the Pratt Institute in New York and was a Captain in the Army during World War II. [1] [2]
Basket of Fruit, c. 1595–1596, oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi) was born in Milan, where his father, Fermo (Fermo Merixio), was a household administrator and architect-decorator to the marquess of Caravaggio, a town 35 km (22 mi) to the east of Milan and south of Bergamo. [7]
Paul Jackson Pollock (/ ˈ p ɒ l ə k /; January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956) was an American painter.A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement, Pollock was widely noticed for his "drip technique" of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface, enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles.
[12] Instead, he maintained that the only possible source for living art is the artist's own experience. [12] He and Jean-François Millet would find inspiration painting the life of peasants and workers. [13] Courbet painted figurative compositions, landscapes, seascapes, and still lifes. He courted controversy by addressing social issues in ...
Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins (/ ˈ eɪ k ɪ n z /; July 25, 1844 – June 25, 1916) was an American realist painter, photographer, [1] sculptor, and fine arts educator. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important American artists.
He was championed by the leading English art critic John Ruskin from 1840, and is today regarded as having elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting. [ 2 ] Turner was born in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden , London, to a modest lower-middle-class family and retained his lower-class accent, while assiduously avoiding the ...