The Temptation of Michel-Angelo 1511- 1512

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The first paintings of Paul Cézanne

Landscape-with-mill-1860

Bath near alpen mill by Geo oil sept 2011

Completion Date: 1860

Style: Romanticism

Period: Dark period

Genre: landscape

Technique: oil

Material: canvas

Dimensions: 23 x 31 cm

Gallery: Private Collection

Paul Cézanne

Born: 19 January 1839; Aix-en-Provence, France

Died: 22 October 1906; Aix-en-Provence, France

Periods: Dark period, Impressionist period, Mature period, Final period

Field: painting

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Post-Impressionism

Series: The Four Seasons

Still-life-with-bread-and-eggs-1865 by Cézanne

Veillée hongroise by Geo oil sept 2011

Artist: Paul CezanneCompletion Date: 1865

Style: Romanticism

Period: Dark period

Genre: still life

Technique: oil

Material: canvas

Dimensions: 59 x 76 cm

Gallery: Cincinnati Art Museum, United States

Paul Cezanne was a post-impressionist painter who created the bridge between impressionism and cubism, and is said to be the artistic father of both Matisse and Picasso. Although he was dissuaded by his father at an early age to pursue his passions in painting, he left his hometown of Provence for Paris, in 1861. It was there that he met Camille Pisarro, a popular impressionist painter, who served as his mentor and guide. He began painting in the impressionistic style, but later began to structurally order what he saw and painted into simple forms and planes of color. He also began to simplify the forms he painted into shapes, such as a tree into a column. Unlike many of the painters of his day, who focused on one or maybe two subject styles, Cezanne concentrated on still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and nude studies.

He began slowly in Paris, as all of his submissions to the Paris Salon between the years of 1864 and 1869 went rejected.

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Welcome in the strange world of Vincent Van Gogh 1881-82

Van Gogh Game by Geo

The Rest of Vincent by Geo

Wndmils-at-Dordrecht-1881

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One of the most famous painters in history, Vincent van Gogh was a Dutch neo-impressionist painter, who produced a vast number of the most recognizable artworks of all time. Van Gogh was a serious, silent, and thoughtful child, who did not attend art classes until he was secondary school. With a natural talent for art, he was contracted quickly out of school to work with an art dealer in The Hague, and later transferred to a dealer in Brixton, in England, where at age twenty he was making more money than his own father. According to his sister in law, this was the happiest time of his life.

Landscape & Technics/ Paysages et technique : Courbet 1836-1856…

La-bretonnerie-in-the-department-of-indre-1856

Ruisseau par Geo Octobre 2011

Valley-of-the-loue-1836

 

Acrobat in Sunset by Geo September 2011

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Born: 10 June 1819; Ornans, Doubs, France

Died: 31 December 1877; La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland

Active years: 1838 – 1877

Field: painting, sculpture

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Realism

Gustave Courbet was a controversial French painter, who bridged the gap between Romanticism and the Impressionist school of painters. He was controversial not only because he addressed social issues with his work, such as peasants and the working condition of the poor, and the rural bourgeoisie, but also because of the unsentimental way in which he portrayed them. Unlike the Romantic school of painters, Courbet did not use smooth lines and soft forms. Instead, he employed spontaneous brush strokes and a roughness of paint texture, which indicated that he was observing his subject directly from life, and thus challenging the academic ideas of the way art should be painted. Because of his development of a realistic form of painting, Courbet was a celebrity, and considered a genius, socialist, and savage. He also encouraged the perception of himself as an unschooled peasant.

Landscape & Technics/ Paysages et technique : Daubigny 1851-1865…

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Born: 15 February 1817; Paris, France

Died: 19 February 1878; Paris, France

Field: painting

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Realism

School or Group: Barbizon school

Genre: landscape

 

 

Charles-François Daubigny (15 February 1817 – 19 February 1878) was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor ofImpressionism.

                                                                                  In Nature by Geo September 2011

Charles-François Daubigny – The River Seine at Mantes - Brooklyn Museum

Daubigny was born in Paris, into a family of painters and was taught the art by his father Edmond François Daubigny and his uncle, miniaturist Pierre Daubigny.

Initially Daubigny painted in a traditional style, but this changed after 1843 when he settled in Barbizon to work outside in nature. Even more important was his meeting with Camille Corot in 1852 in Optevoz (Isère). On his famous boat Botin, which he had turned into a studio, he painted along the Seine and Oise, often in the region around Auvers. From 1852 onward he came under the influence of Gustave Courbet.

Landscape & Technics/ Paysages et technique : Constable 1802-1819…

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Born: 11 June 1776; Suffolk, United Kingdom

Died: 31 March 1837; London, United Kingdom

Active years: 1800 – 1837

Field: painting

Nationality: British

Art Movement: Romanticism

School or Group: English school

Genre: landscape

Series: Scene on a River

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as “Constable Country”—which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I should paint my own places best”, he wrote to his friend John Fisher in 1821, “painting is but another word for feeling”.^[2]

His most famous paintings include Dedham Vale of 1802 and The Hay Wain of 1821. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable in British art, he was never financially successful and did not become a member of the establishment until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of 52. He sold more paintings in France than in his native England.

Henry Scott Tuke

 

 

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ELTON JOHN:

“Freddie Mercury had a passion for beautiful drawings and paintings as well. I mean, even when he was dying, at his house, I used to go round there and sit well between… [it was] really hard because he was really ill. But he just loved having his auction catalogues round there.

“And things would be arriving, and he’d say: ’Darling, I’ve just bought this!’, and I said like ‘Why are you doing this?’ and he said‘Because I love it.’

“The year that he died, at Christmas, someone gave me this parcel wrapped in a beautiful pilowcase and inside was a Henry Scott Tuke watercolour and it said:

Dear SharonThought you’d love this! Melina X

- ‘cos that was our names, and I was… it was one of the most touching things anyone’s ever done for me – the fact that he thought of me as he was dying and bought this painting because he knew that I loved Henry Scott Tuke. I’ve still got the pillowcase next to my bed and my Henry Scott Tuke’s on an easel that he gave me. It’s fantastic. What a great gift and what a beautiful thought.”

50 Monet 65 Gauguin

The rocky cliffs of Étretat by Monet.

The rocky cliffs of Étretat by Geo

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Why not painting some Monet & Gauguin I like…

The-white-horse-1898

The White Horse by Geo

The village

 by Geo sept 2011

A-man-with-axe-1891 by Gauguin

Pacific Ocean by Geo

Models

Forest by Geo sept 2011

Fontainebleau-forest by Monet

Forest models

Continue with Artists in D…

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My Artists in G

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