Henri Émile Benoît Matisse transformed 20th century art through color. Born in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, this French painter shattered artistic conventions as…
Georges-Pierre Seurat transformed art history in just 31 short years of life. This French painter’s revolutionary pointillism technique forever changed…
Paul Gauguin abandoned a successful banking career to pursue art, ultimately becoming one of the most influential Post-Impressionist painters of the 19th century.…
Vincent Willem van Gogh painted over 860 canvases yet sold only one in his lifetime. His journey from the dark peasant paintings of…
Paul Cézanne transformed the course of art history through sheer persistence and vision. Working in relative isolation in Aix-en-Provence, this French painter created a revolutionary visual language that…
Behind every Edgar Degas (1834-1917) painting lies a contradiction. The artist who captured ballet dancers with unmatched precision refused to call himself…
A single brushstroke by Pierre-Auguste Renoir can transform ordinary light into visual poetry. This French painter (1841-1919) revolutionized the art world through his vibrant…
A single oil painting hangs in Paris, 1874: “Impression, Sunrise”—a work that would inadvertently name an entire art movement. Claude Monet, the French…
A single painting shocked Paris in 1863. Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” displayed naked women alongside clothed men in…
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres defied categorization in his time—and continues to escape simple classification today. The French painter created works of extraordinary…