art,oil painting,artists
There are two entries for Robert De Niro in the online collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. One is for Taxi Driver, the film directed by Martin Scorsese, for which De Niro was nominated for an Oscar as best actor in 1976; the other is for...
Pierre-August Renoir is one of the best loved Impressionist painters. He is well known for his outdoor scenes of nudes and paintings of people socialising. Renoir was originally trained as a painter of ceramics, such as plates and vases. It took him a...
Vanessa Bell was a British painter and interior designer who established her reputation as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group. Her most innovative works, which fused fine art and decorative design, show the influence of post-Impressionism, Matisse...
Spanish painter, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, was the most popular Baroque religious painter of 17th-century Spain. His many religious and secular subjects emphasized the peaceful, joyous aspects of spiritual life. He was the first Spanish artist to achieve...
Paul Sérusier (1864—1927) was a French painter. In 1888, Sérusier arrived at Pont-Aven in Brittany, a town popular among French and foreign artists. There, Sérusier's attention turned to a group of artists who crowded around émile Bernand and Paul Gauguin....
Gino Severini, (born April 7, 1883, Cortona, Italy—died February 27, 1966, Paris, France), Italian painter who synthesized the styles of Futurism and Cubism. On 11 February 1910 Severini signed the 'Manifesto of Futurist Painting' and thus became a co-founder...
Martin Schongauer was the most able engraver and painter of the early German school. About 1469 Schongauer set out on his journeyman's travels, going to Burgundy and the Netherlands. His early copperplates reveal the direct translation of pictorial types...
An oil painting exhibition featuring the oil paintings of China's 'new generation' artists, who were born in the 1970s and early 1980s, is currently being held at Today Art Museum in Beijing. The show exhibits the oil paintings of artists Zeng Chuanxing,...
Alex Katz (born Brooklyn, New York, 1927) is one of the most important and respected living American artists with a career that spans over six decades. Give Me Tomorrow brings together paintings, oil studies, collages and a rarely exhibited cut-out, spanning...
Robert Delaunay, (born April 12, 1885, Paris—died Oct. 25, 1941, Montpellier, Fr.), was a French painter who first introduced vibrant colour into Cubism and thereby originated the trend in Cubist painting known as Orphism. He was one of the earliest completely...
