Intro to Modern Art History
Monet, Claude - The Gare Saint-Lazare (1877)
Monet went to the train station to find the future. He didn't want to paint a mountain -- he wanted...
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Monet, Claude - Impression, Sunrise (1872)
In 1874, Claude Monet turned a critic’s slur into a revolution. Impression, Sunrise wasn't a view of nature, but a...
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Manet, Édouard - A Bar at the Folies-Bergère (1...
This was Manet’s final masterpiece and it’s one of the most mysterious paintings ever made. It shows a barmaid named...
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Manet, Édouard - Olympia (1863)
If the picnic Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ["Luncheon on the grass"] was a scandal, Olympia was a full-blown riot. Manet...
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Manet, Édouard - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ["Lunc...
This painting was the biggest scandal of its time and it still feels a bit dangerous today. It shows two...
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Courbet, Gustave - Young Ladies of the Village ...
Young Ladies of the Village looks like a peaceful pastoral scene at first glance, but it was actually a tactical...
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Courbet, Gustave - The Painter's Studio - 1855
The Painter's Studio is one of the most arrogant and brilliant things ever put on canvas and it serves as...
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Pissarro, Camille - The Boulevard Montmartre at...
This is the city as a living organism. Late in his life, Pissarro moved to a hotel overlooking the grand...
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Pissarro, Camille - The Red Roofs - 1877
The Red Roofs is a lesson in geometry that captures a cluster of houses in the village of Pontoise. Pissarro...
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Courbet, Gustave - The Stone Breakers - 1850
The Stone Breakers is a record of a lost world. The original painting was destroyed in a bombing during WWII,...
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