Intro to Modern Art History
Filiger, Charles - La Vierge (1895)
Charles Filiger lived on the fringes. He fled the art world's noise. Fueled by mysticism and cheap absinthe, his vision...
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Filiger, Charles - Breton Cowherd (1892)
Charles Filiger ignored the grit of rural life. He painted the Breton Cowherd like a saint carved from cold mathematics....
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Filiger, Charles - Woman’s Head with Closed Eye...
Charles Filiger ghosted the Paris art scene. He hated the noise. He chose the quiet salt air of Brittany. His...
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Filiger, Charles - Chromatic Notations - Redhea...
Filiger lived in Gauguin’s shadow. He didn't want the spotlight. He preferred tiny grids. Mathematical devotion was his god. He...
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Filiger, Charles - Chromatic Notation: Head of ...
Charles Filiger threw out the rulebook. He saw the human face as a divine map. Kingmakers ignored him. This small...
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Filiger, Charles - Breton Countryside (1890)
Filiger wasn't your typical artist. While Gauguin chased fame, Filiger was shrinking the universe in tiny, intense works. 'Breton Countryside'...
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Filiger, Charles - Portrait of Emile Bernard (1...
Charles Filiger fled the city. He hated the noise of the Belle Epoque. A patron paid him to be a...
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Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri - At the Moulin Rouge (...
Forget the postcards. The Belle Époque wasn’t golden. It was a fever dream, fueled by absinthe and electric hum. In...
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Lautrec, Henri - Moulin Rouge - La Goulue (1891)
Paris 1891. A gilded cage. Lautrec didn't just paint. He ignited a revolution. He turned a poster into a screaming...
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Lautrec, Henri de - The Medical Inspection (1894)
Paris in 1894. Not all champagne. Behind the Belle Époque's velvet curtains, syphilis brought silent death. Medicine became a state...
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