
Mary Cassatt (Pittsburg, 1844, – Chteau de Beaufresne, 1926) Mary est ne Pittsburgh. Son pre tait un banquier trs libral en matire d\'ducation, et toute la famille semblait manifester une certaine sympathie pour la...
Flix Vallotton, n Lausanne le 28 dcembre 1865 et mort Paris le 29 dcembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, sculpteur et graveur sur bois Suisse, naturalis Franais en 1900. En une dizaine d’annes, Vallotton parvient se...
Flix Vallotton, n Lausanne le 28 dcembre 1865 et mort Paris le 29 dcembre 1925, est un artiste peintre, sculpteur et graveur sur bois Suisse, naturalis Franais en 1900. En une dizaine d’annes, Vallotton parvient se...
Germain Hilaire Edgar Degas (Paris, 1834 – 1917) Dans le cercle des impressionnistes, c\'est de Renoir que Degas fut le plus proche : tous deux prfrrent comme motif de leur peinture le Paris vivant de leur poque....
Entre 1880 et les premires annes du XXe sicle, le Symbolisme voit le jour en France et en Europe. Les symbolistes, fascins par les mythologies anciennes, tentent d’chapper au rgne de la pense rationaliste impose par...
Si l’Impressionnisme marqua les premiers pas vers la peinture moderne en rvolutionnant un milieu artistique touff par les conventions acadmiques, le Post-Impressionnisme, plus rvolutionnaire encore, libra totalement...
L’art naf connat ses premiers succs la fin du XIXe sicle. Des « peintres du dimanche » dveloppent avec spontanit et simplicit une forme d’expression qui, jusqu’alors, avait peu intress les artistes et les critiques...
Edouard Manet(Paris, 1832 – 1883) Manet est l\'un des plus clbres artistes de la seconde moiti du XIXe sicle, li aux impressionnistes sans faire vraiment partie de leur groupe. Chrissant son indpendance, il eut une...
« Je peins ce que je vois et non ce qu’il plat aux autres de voir. » D’autres mots que ceux d’douard Manet, la touche pourtant si diffrente de celle de Monet ou de Renoir, pourraient-ils mieux dfinir ce que fut...
Dvelopp travers l’Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l’art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses racines dans la puissante architecture des cathdrales du nord de la France. Dlaissant la rondeur romane, les architectes...
Apparu l’aube du XXe sicle, le Fauvisme explosa sur la scne artistique lors du Salon d’automne de 1905 en un scandale retentissant. En jetant des couleurs pures sur la toile, les fauves dfirent les conventions...
Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins.This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois...
Degas was closest to Renoir in the impressionist’s circle, for both favoured the animated Parisian life of their day as a motif in their paintings. Degas did not attend Gleyre’s studio; most likely he first met the...
Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science....
Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and...
Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from...
“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of douard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement?...
Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d\'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by...
Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning “prophet”. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distinguished of the...
Mary was born in Pittsburgh. Her father was a banker of liberal educational ideas and the entire family appears to have been sympathetic to French culture. Mary was no more than five or six years old when she first...
“I paint what I see and not what it pleases others to see.” What other words than these of douard Manet, seemingly so different from the sentiments of Monet or Renoir, could best define the Impressionist movement?...
Symbolism appeared in France and Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the 20th century. The Symbolists, fascinated with ancient mythology, attempted to escape the reign of rational thought imposed by science....
Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d\'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by...
Whilst Impressionism marked the first steps toward modern painting by revolutionising an artistic medium stifled by academic conventions, Post-Impressionism, even more revolutionary, completely liberated colour and...
Naive art first became popular at the end of the 19th century. Until that time, this form of expression, created by untrained artists and characterised by spontaneity and simplicity, enjoyed little recognition from...
