ART: Artists, Art Trivia, Art Legends
From the 2014 A to Z Blog Challenge
A glimpse of the ART world, in the manner of an alphabetical mini-art tour. ART focuses on artists and art movements between the 1850's-1960's, with a few exceptions. From A to Z, here is a compact collection of posts on Art, with additional information that might interest you.
Enjoy the ART tour!
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| Café du Dome, Paris, by unknown artist, WC |
A - Apollinaire, Guillaume - Art Critic, French poet and Writer
B - Braque, Georges French artist, cubism
C - Cezanne and Cubism, French, Post-Impressionist
D - Delacroix, Eugene, French, leader of the French Romantics
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| Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, Louvre, PD*-WC |
E - Emily Carr, Canadian painter, post-Impressionist,
F - Fauvists and Marc Chagall - French, Surrealism, Fauvism
G - Gauguin, Paul - French, Post-Impressionist
H - Henri Matisse, French, Fauvist Painter
I - Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique - French, portraits
J - Jongkind, Johan - Dutch Painter, seascapes
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| The Seine and Notre-Dame in Paris, 1864, J. Jongkind, Musee d'Orsay |
K - Klee, Paul - German-Swiss, Cubist
L - Lichtenstein, Roy Fox - American, POP artist
M - Magritte, Rene - French, Surrealist
N - Nouvelle Athenes - meeting place for artists and writers in Paris
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| Café de la Nouvelle Athènes, Paris, before |
O - Oppenheim, Meret - Surrealist, German-Swiss
P - Picasso, Pablo - Spanish, Cubist painter, Sculptor
Q - (Quick Guide to) Painters in Paris
R - Rembrandt, the Great - Dutch master of light/shadow
S - Sargent, John Singer - American in France
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| John Singer Sargent, in his studio with the Portrait of Madame X, c.1884, PD-WC |
T - Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri, French, post-Impressionist painter, illustrator
U - Utrillo, Maurice French, Montmartre artist
V - Van Gogh, Vincent, French painter, Post-Impressionist
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| Vincent Van Gogh, by Paul Gauguin-WC |
W - Warhol, Andy - American, POP artist
X - Xavery, Jan Baptist - Dutch, Sculptor
Y - Yamato-e - Japanese, a classical style of painting
Z - Zadkine, Valentine Prax - French Painter and wife of Ossip Zadkine
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A to Z Blog Challenge 2014 Team and the originator: Lee, of Tossing it Out. Check the website if you want to participate next year.
Last updated: May 3, 2014
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