Ash Can School, Artistic Movement

George Bellows

Cliff Dwellers, 1913, oil on canvas.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Ashcan School, also called The Ash Can School, was an artistic movement in the United States during the early 20th century that is best known for works portraying scenes of daily life in New York, often in the city's poorer neighborhoods. The most famous artists working in this style included Robert Henri (1865–1929), George Luks (1867–1933), William Glackens (1870–1938), John Sloan (1871–1951), and Everett Shinn (1876–1953), some of whom had met studying together under the renowned realist Thomas Anshutz at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and others of whom met in the newspaper offices of Philadelphia where they worked as illustrators. The movement has been seen as emblematic of the spirit of political rebellion of the period

Marc Chagall born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov; was a Russian-French artist

Marc Chagall born Moishe Zakharovich Shagalov

Russian-French artist of Belarusian Jewish origin.^[1] An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic format, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century" (though Chagall saw his work as "not the dream of one people but of all humanity"). According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's preeminent Jewish artist". Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz. windows for the UN, and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris.

Mondrian contributor to the De Stijl art movement

Piet Mondrian

Dutch painter, Mondrian was a contributor to the De Stijl art movement and group, which was founded by Theo van Doesburg. He evolved a non-representational form which he termed neoplasticism. This consisted of white ground, upon which he painted a grid of vertical and horizontal black lines and the three primary colors. Mondrian's arrival in Paris from the Netherlands in 1911 marked the beginning of a period of profound change. He encountered experiments in Cubism and with the intent of integrating himself within the Parisian avant-garde removed an 'a' from the Dutch spelling of his name (Mondriaan)

Tamara de Lempicka Art Deco Painter

Tamara Łempicka, commonly known as Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Influenced by Cubism, Lempicka became the leading representative of the Art Deco style across two continents, a favorite artist of many Hollywood stars, referred to as 'the baroness with a brush'. She was the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was also able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era. Lempicka was criticized as well as admired for her 'perverse Ingrism', referring to her modern restatement of the master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,Group of Four Nudes (1925) among other studies as displayed in her work

Tamara Lempicka, Oil Painting -

Self Portrait in Green Bugatti (1925)

Tamara Lempicka, Oil Painting -

Portrait of Madame Boucard (1931)

Dine With Vincent Van Gogh...Consider The Pleasure of His Company and Fine Art in Your Dining Room.

Vincent Van Gogh

Self Portrait

Vincent Van Gogh

Café Terrace at Night

Vincent Van Gogh

Portrait of Dr. Gachet

 

Vincent Willem van Gogh Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings most of them in the last two years of his life. They include landscapes,  still lifes,  portraits, and self-portraits,  and are characterised by bold colors and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork, that contributed to the foundations of modern art. #paintingstogo

 

Fine Art: Consider the impact a 6' oil painting of "The Archduke" would make in Your Den or Library

David Teniers the Younger,

"The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm"

 

David Teniers the Younger, The Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his gallery in Brussels. Teniers documented the archduke's collection of paintings in this work while he was court painter in Brussels. Consider the POWER a 6' high oil painting (100% hand painted on canvas reproduction) of "The Archduke" would make in your den, library or other interior space. #paintingstogo Bespoke Fine Art Reproductions.

Love Monet? Bring his "Magpie" or "Haystacks" Into Your Interior Space.

Claude Monet "Haystacks"

Haystacks is a title of a series of impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. The primary subjects of all of the paintings in the series are stacks of hay in the field after the harvest season. The title refers primarily to a twenty-five canvas series. The series is known for its thematic use of repetition to show differences in perception of light across various times of day, seasons, and types of weather.

 

Claude Monet "The Magpie"

 

The canvas of The Magpie depicts a solitary black magpie perched on a gate

formed in a wattle fence, as the light of the sun shines upon freshly fallen snow creating blue shadows. The painting features one of the first examples of Monet's use of colored shadows, which would later become associated with the Impressionist movement. Monet and the Impressionists used colored shadows to represent the actual, changing conditions of light and shadow as seen in nature, challenging the academic convention of painting shadows black. #paintingstogo

 

Paul Gauguin French post-Impressionist artist Exprimental use of color, perfect to brighten interior spaces.

When Will You Marry?

Self Portrait With Halo and Snake

 

 Paul Gauguin was a French post-Impressionist artist. Underappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism.

 

 Paul Gauguin custom oil painting reproductions on linen canvas,

perfect to brighten interior spaces.

To Love Chagall Is To Love Life

Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Russian-French artist.
 

An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.



Tamara Lempicka, Was A Polish Art Deco Painter and "The First Woman Artist To Be A Glamour Star".

 

 

Portrait of Madame Boucard

1931 Oil on Canvas

(53 1/2"x29 1/2"

Artist: Tamara de Lempicka

 

Tamara Łempicka, commonly known as Tamara de Lempicka (16 May 1898 – 18 March 1980), was a Polish Art Deco painter and "the first woman artist to be a glamour star". Influenced by Cubism, Lempicka became the leading representative of the Art Deco style across two continents, a favorite artist of many Hollywood stars, referred to as 'the baroness with a brush'. She was the most fashionable portrait painter of her generation among the haute bourgeoisie and aristocracy, painting duchesses and grand dukes and socialites. Through her network of friends, she was also able to display her paintings in the most elite salons of the era. Lempicka was criticized as well as admired for her 'perverse Ingrism', referring to her modern restatement of the master Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, as displayed in her work Group of Four Nudes (1925) among other studies.



Antoine Watteau, Was A French Painter Whose Brief Career Spurred The Revival Of Interest In Color And Movement, As Seen In The Tradition Of Correggio And Rubens

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Antoine Watteau

Mezzetino

Antoine Watteau

The Love Song

 Antoine Watteau

The Italian Comedians, 1721

 

Jean-Antoine Watteau better known as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in color and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the less severe, more naturalistic, less formally classical Rococo.Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes, scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm, suffused with a theatrical air. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.

 

 



The Battle Of San Romano Is A Set Of Three Paintings By Florentine Painter Paolo Uccello

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino at the Battle of San Romano (probably c. 1438–1440), egg tempera with walnut oil and linseed oil on poplar, 182 × 320 cm, National Gallery, London

 

The Battle of San Romano is a set of three paintings by the Florentine painter Paolo Uccello depicting events that took place at the Battle of San Romano between Florentine and Sienese forces in 1432. They are significant as revealing the development of linear perspective in early Italian Renaissance painting, and are unusual as a major secular commission. The paintings are in egg tempera on wooden panels, each over 3 meters long. According to the National Gallery, London, the panels were commissioned by a member of the Bartolini Salimbeni family in Florence sometime between 1435 and 1460. The paintings were much admired in the 15th century; Lorenzo de' Medici so coveted them that he purchased one and had the remaining two forcibly removed to the Palazzo Medici. They are now divided between three collections, the National Gallery, the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, and the Musée du Louvre, Paris. 

 

Niccolò Mauruzi da Tolentino unseats Bernardino della Ciarda

at the Battle of San Romano (dating uncertain, c. 1435–1455), tempera on wood,

182 × 320 cm, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Counterattack of Michelotto da Cotignola at the

Battle of San Romano (c. 1455), wood panel, 182 × 317 cm,

Musée du Louvre, Paris

 

Simon Vouet's Allegory La Richesse Was Painted About 1640, Possibly For One of the Royal Chateaux of France

Simon Vouet's Allegory La Richesse

(Oil on Canvas - painted about 1640)

 

Simon Vouet - Muses Urania and Calliope

(Oil on Canvas )

 

Simon Vouet - Allegory Of Prudence

(Oil on Canvas - painted about 1645)

 

Simon Vouet (9 January 1590 – 30 June 1649) was a French painter and draftsman, who today is perhaps best remembered for helping to introduce the Italian Baroque style of painting to France

Simon Vouet was born on January 9, 1590 in Paris. His father Laurent was a painter in Paris and taught him the rudiments of art. Simon's brother Aubin Vouet (1595–1641) and his grandson Ludovico Dorigny (1654–1742) were also painters. Simon began his painting career as a portrait painter. At a young age he travelled to England and was part of the entourage of the Baron de Sancy, French ambassador to Constantinople. From there he went to Venice and was in Rome in 1614.
He spent an extensive period of time in Italy, from 1613 to 1627. He was mostly in Rome where the Baroque style was emerging during these years. He received a pension from the King of France and his patrons included the Barberini family, Cassiano dal Pozzo, Paolo Giordan Orsini and Vincenzo Giustiniani, He also visited other parts of Italy: Venice; Bologna, (where the Carracci family had their academy); Genoa, (where from 1620 to 1622, he worked for the Doria princes); and Naples. He was a natural academic, who absorbed what he saw and studied, and distilled it in his painting: Caravaggio's dramatic lighting; Italian Mannerism; Paolo Veronese's color and di sotto in su or foreshortened perspective; and the art of Carracci, Guercino, Lanfranco and Guido Reni. Vouet's immense success in Rome led to his election as president of the Accademia di San Luca in 1624. In 1626 he married Virginia da Vezzo who modelled Madonnas for Vouet's religious commissions.



Paul Cézanne's The Card Players Shatters Records For Highest Price Ever For A Work Of Art Of More Than $250 Million in 2011

 Paul Cézanne

Medium Oil Canvas

The Card Players

When Qatar purchased Cézanne’s The Card Players for more than $250 million, in 2011 it nearly doubled the previous auction record for a work of art. The oil painting, depicting a pair of Aix-en-Provence farmhands engaged in a game of cards, is one of five works in a series by famed French post-Impressionist, Paul Cézanne. The remaining four, all believed to have been created at the turn of the 20^th century, reside in collections from the world’s most venerable fine arts institutions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Courtauld, the Musée d’Orsay and the Barnes Foundation. Qatar’s own Card Players acquisition puts the country’s art stash in the same line of sight. 

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker - Sir Joshua Reynolds - Oil Canvas Portrait

Captain George K. H. Coussmaker

  Sir Joshua Reynolds - Oil on canvas portrait

 

Coussmaker was born in London in 1759 to Evert and Mary Coussmaker, and entered the military in 1776. He was promoted several times but never saw active service and retired in 1795. He married Catherine Southwell in 1790 and fathered two children, George and Sophia (later, the Baroness de Clifford). He died in 1801. Coussmaker sat for Reynolds 21 times and his horse 8 times between February 9 and April 16, 1782 - an exceptional number of times. Reynolds was paid 205 pounds, plus 10 guineas for the frame. The portrait remained with Coussmaker and his descendants until 1884 when it was sold to William K. Vanderbilt and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1920. Museum curators describe the picture as "an exceptionally fine work ... The composition is complex and the whole vigorously painted."

The Archers, Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney - Sir Joshua Reynolds Oil Painting

The Archers, Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney

 Sir Joshua Reynolds - Oil Painting

 

The Archers is an oil-on-canvas painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds undertaken between 1769 and 1770. The artwork depicts the two aristocrats Colonel John Dyke Acland (1746–1778; at right) and Lord Sydney (1732–1774), a diplomat. Reynolds began the work in 1769, and completed it the next year. In 1769 Reynolds had become the first president of the new Royal Academy.



Sir Joshua Reynolds- The Ladies Waldegrave, Oil Painting

Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds - Oil Canvas

The Ladies Waldegrave

 

The Ladies Waldegrave is a 1780-81 portrait by Joshua Reynolds, now in the National Gallery of Scotland, who acquired it in 1952. It shows the three daughters of James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave and Maria Walpole - from left to right, Charlotte (holding a skein of silk), Elizabeth (winding Charlotte's skein onto a card) and Anna (producing tambour lace). Exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1781, it was commissioned the previous year by the subjects' mother in the hope of attracting potential suitors for them - all three of them were then unmarried.

 

Sir Joshua Reynolds 16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an influential eighteenth-century English painter, specializing in portraits. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was knighted by George III in 1769.

 



Sir Anthony van Dyck A Flemish Baroque Artist

Van Dyck with Sunflower

(self portrait)

Sir Anthony van Dyck, Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England, after enjoying great success in Italy and Flanders. He is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding facility as a draughtsman, and was an important innovator in watercolor and etching. The Van Dyke beard is named after him.

Sir Anthony van Dyck

Portrait of Lord John Stuart and His Brother Lord Bernard Stuart

The more intimate and sensual, but still elegant style Van Dyck developed in England, c. 1638

Sandro Botticelli - Portrait of a Young Woman

Sandro Botticelli

Portrait of a Young Woman

Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting which is commonly believed to be by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, executed between 1480 and 1485. Others attribute authorship to Jacopo da Sellaio. The woman is shown in profile but with her bust turned in three-quarter view to reveal a cameo medallion she is wearing round her neck. The medallion is a copy in reverse of "Nero's Seal" a famous antique carnelian representing Apollo and Marsyas, which belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici. It is housed in the Städel of Frankfurt, Germany.

Other similar Botticelli paintings are to be found in the National Gallery, London, the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, and in the Marubeni Collection, Tokyo.David Alan Brown of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. describes the painting as of an ideally beautiful young woman mythologised as a nymph or goddess, a view reflected in the title given it by the Städel. It belongs to a group of such paintings by Botticelli or his workshop. The art historian Aby Warburg first suggested the painting was an idealised portrait of SimonettaVespucci.

Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi, known as Sandro Botticelli

Sandro Botticelli

Artist: (known as) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi

Costello Annunciation, 1489

Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of the Early Renaissance. He belonged to the Florentine School under the patronage of Lorenzo de' Medici, a movement that Giorgio Vasari would characterize less than a hundred years later in his Vita of Botticelli as a "golden age". Botticelli's posthumous reputation suffered until the late 19th century; since then, his work has been seen to represent the linear grace of Early Renaissance painting.

The Annunciation, also known as the Cestello Annunciation, is a tempera painting created in 1489 It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence and has been part of the collection since 1872.
The picture was commissioned in May of 1489 to decorate the chapel of the Florentine monastery Cestello, which is now known as Santa Maria Maddalena de'Pazzi.