"Paul Cézanne's unique method of building form with color, and his analytical approach to nature, influenced the art of Cubists, Fauves, and successive generations of avant-garde artists."
— James Voorhies, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
La Montagne Sainte-Victoire au grand pin
When studying different art movements, Juliana Vido became exasperated by the focus on male artists. This was the spur for her series of illustrations honouring female artists in their studios...
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Sonia Delaunay • Helen Frankenthaler
August Macke
#botd January 3, 1887
An der Aare, 1913
Porträt mit Äpfeln, 1909
A Happy Christmas
Pauline Boty
Oil on canvas laid on card, c. 1960
A gift from Pauline Boty to Jane Percival
“In a photograph, a person’s eyes tell much.
Sometimes they tell all...”
— Alfred Eisenstaedt #botd
William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827
Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his timeless work has never been more relevant...
"I made up my mind to forget all that I had been taught, and to paint exactly as I felt..."
— Georgia O'Keeffe
Abstraction/Portrait of Paul Strand, 1917
Pablo Picasso
Self-Portrait
Oil on canvas, 1896
The Artist's Father
Watercolour on paper, 1896
Marie Laurencin
Le Bal élégant, La Danse à la campagne
Exhibited at the Salon des Independants, Paris, 1913
The Cézanne that made me see
"What I was staring at was something possessed of potent independent life, built from colour and texture and the massing of volumes and the scooping out of space..."
— Simon Schama
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