Photorealist artists were reacting against Abstract Expressionism, which for many years was the predominant painting style in the United States. Whereas Abstract Expressionism favoured spontaneous
40,000 years ago, primitive artists who painted murals on cave walls and stony outcrops invented the first pigments from easily available resources; a selection of
Post-Impressionist painters worked independently rather than as a group, but each influential Post-Impressionist painter had similar ideals. They concentrated on subjective visions and symbolic, personal
The mystique of Georgia O’Keeffe’s exceptional life is as intriguing as her stunningly bold abstract paintings. Georgia O’Keeffe is considered to be one of the
A pale yellow light, stirring dust motes/Fragrant, playful, brushes across my face/The air cooler, brighter, rain drop fresh/Cobwebs quivering, released from dark corners
The founding Impressionist artists were united by their desire to cast off the existing restrictive rules of painting, promoted by the Académie des Beaux-Arts and
These blooms so fascinated Claude Monet, a French artist of the Impressionist period, that he created a garden with a large water body in rural
Degas, though Parisian by birth, spent three important years of his youth in Italy, where he immersed himself in European Renaissance art. He filled sketchbooks
