Artists
Paul Cezanne
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The work of Post-Impressionist French painter Paul Cezanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new line of artistic inquiry, Cubism. The mastery of design, tone, composition and color that spans his life's work is highly characteristic and now recognizable around the world. Both Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso were greatly influenced by Cezanne.
"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your
studies without weakening. God will do the rest."
- Paul Cezanne
French post-Impressionist artist Paul Gauguin was an important figure in the Symbolist art movement of the early 1900s. His use of bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts in his paintings set him apart from his contemporaries, helping to pave the way for the Primitivism art movement. Gauguin often sought exotic environments and spent time living and painting in Tahiti.
Paul Gauguin
"In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited
the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters."
- Paul Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh was a post-Impressionist painter whose work -- notable for its beauty, emotion and color -- highly influenced 20th-century art. He struggled with mental illness and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
"Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much
performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well."
- Vincent Van Gogh
Claude Monet was born in 1840 in France and enrolled in the Academie Suisse. After an art exhibition in 1874, a critic insultingly dubbed Monet's painting style "Impression," since it was more concerned with form and light than realism, and the term stuck. Monet struggled with depression, poverty and illness throughout his life. He died in 1926.
Claude Monet
"Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary
to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."
- Claude Monet
Georges Seurat
After training at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Georges Seurat broke free of tradition. Taking his technique a step beyond Impressionism, he painted with small strokes of pure color that seem to blend when viewed from a distance. This method, called Pointillism, is showcased in major works of the 1880s such as "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte." Seurat's career was cut short when he died of illness on March 29, 1891, in Paris.
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"Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar
to each artist."
- Georges Seurat