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The Great Painters of Modern Art - from Mid 19th Century to end of 20th Century
Photo: Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Pablo Picasso, 1907.
For Great painters from mid 13th to mid 19th centuries, please see: Old Masters
Selected Profiles of the most famous Great Painters of Modern Art (mid XIX to end XX C)
Édouard Manet (1832 – 1883) was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe), 1863, and Olympia, 1863, engendered great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today, they are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.
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Camille Pissaro (1830 – 1903) was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin: The Hay Cart, Montfoucault, 1879; Hay Harvest at Éragny, 1901.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) was one of the central figures of the Impressionist movement. His work is characterized by a richness of feeling and a warmth of response to the world and to the people in it. By the mid-1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women: The Theater Box 1874; Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette, 1876; Two Young Girls at the Piano, 1892.
Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903) Leading Post-Impressionist French painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral: Tahitian Women, 1891; Hail Mary, 1891; , The Day of the God, 1894.
Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) was a 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 which date from the last two years of his life. Of his famous paintings: The Potato Eaters, 1885; ; Sunflowers, 1888; The Starry Night, 1889.
Pablo Picasso (1881 – 1973) was a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor who lived most of his adult life in France. He is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 and Guernica, 1937 - his portrayal of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
Marc Chagall (Марк Шагал) (1887 – 1985) Belarusian (that time Russian Empire) French artist, associated with several key art movements and was one of the most successful artists of the 20th century. He created unique works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints: I and the Village, 1911; Over the town, 1918; The blue fiddler, 1947.
Chaim Soutine (1893 – 1943) was a Russian painter of Belarusian Jewish origin. Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, he developed an individual style more concerned with shape, colour, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism: Baker Boy, 1919; Carcass of Beef, 1924; Houses of Cagnes, 1925.
Andy Warhol (1928 – 1987) was an American artist, film director, and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture: Marilyn II, 1967; Black Bean Soup, 1968; Saint Apollonia II, 1984.
Jozef Israëls (1824 – 1911) was a Dutch painter. He was a leading member of the group of landscape painters referred to as the Hague School and, during his lifetime, "the most respected Dutch artist of the second half of the nineteenth century".
Sir Frederic Leighton (1830 - 1896) English painter and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical and classical subject matter.
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834 – 1903) American artist active during the American Gilded Age and based primarily in the United Kingdom. He was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake".
Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910) American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects.
Homer Ransford Watson (Jan. 14, 1855 - May 30, 1936) Canada's premier landscape painter.
Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961) Renowned American folk artist.
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875 – 1911) was a Lithuanian painter, composer and writer. He contributed to symbolism and art nouveau and was representative of the fin de siècle epoch.
Edward Hopper (1882 – 1967) Prominent American realist painter and printmaker.