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Édouard Manet (UK: / ˈmæneɪ /, US: / mæˈneɪ, məˈ -/; [1][2] French: [edwaʁ manɛ]; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, as well as a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born into an upper-class household with ...
Pablo Ruiz Picasso[a][b](25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designerwho spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubistmovement, the invention of constructed sculpture,[8][9]the co-invention ...
Signature. Gustav Klimt (14 July 1862 – 6 February 1918) was an Austrian symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. Klimt is noted for his paintings, murals, sketches, and other objets d'art. Klimt's primary subject was the female body, [1] and his works are marked by a frank eroticism. [2]
Georges Pierre Seurat (UK: / ˈsɜːrɑː, - ə / SUR-ah, -ə, US: / sʊˈrɑː / suu-RAH; [1][2][3][4][5] French: [ʒɔʁʒ pjɛʁ sœʁa]; [6] 2 December 1859 – 29 March 1891) was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper ...
Johannes Vermeer (/ vərˈmɪər, vərˈmɛər /; Dutch: [vərˈmeːr], see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately ...
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈfɾiða ˈkalo]; 6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954 [1]) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions ...
Edvard Munch (/ mʊŋk / MUUNK, [ 1 ]Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ⓘ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
Tamara Łempicka (pronounced [taˈmara wɛmˈpit͡ska] ⓘ; 16 June 1894 – 18 March 1980), [1][2][3] better known as Tamara de Lempicka, was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of ...