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PAUL GAUGUIN (1848-1903)

October 16, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments ARTIST, French artist, French Post-Impressionist artist, painter

Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after

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MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI (1475-1564)

October 15, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments archetypal Renaissance man, ARTIST, engineer, Italian sculptor, painter, poet

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet,

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ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)

October 14, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments ARTIST, master prints, mathematician, Meisterstiche, painter

Albrecht Durer (1471 – 1528) was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theoristfrom Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts (nowadays often called Meisterstiche or “master prints”) established his reputation and influence acrossEurope when he was

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JACKSON POLLOCK (1912-1956)

October 13, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments American painter, ARTIST, drip painting, drips, painter

Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major

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JAN VAN EYCK (1390-1441)

October 12, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments ARTIST, Flemish, Flemish painter, painter

Jan van Eyck (or Johannes de Eyck) (1390 – 1441) was a Flemish painter active in Brugesand is generally considered one of the most significant Northern

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J. M. W. TURNER (1775-1851)

October 11, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments academic painter, ARTIST, landscape painter, painter

Joseph Mallord William Turner was a British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded

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CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610)

October 10, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments ARTIST, Baroque, caravaggio, father of Baroque paintin, Italian artist, painter

Michelangelo Merisi or Amerighi da Caravaggio ( 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily between 1592 (1595?) and 1610.

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Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)

October 9, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments "underrated, ARTIST, artistic endeavour, French impressionist painter, Impression, Monet, Sunrise

Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of

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WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944)

October 8, 2013August 10, 2013 josephrosario17 0 Comments art theorist, ARTIST, father of abstraction, painter, Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works.