Intro to Modern Art History
Seurat, Georges - A Sunday Afternoon on the Isl...
Between 1884 and 1886, Georges Seurat traded artistic romance for cold optics on the island of La Grande Jatte. Rejecting...
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Seurat, Georges - The Circus (1891)
Montmartre screamed. Ozone and horse manure. Steam engines hissed. Brass bands blared. Seurat captured this frantic joy. He used cold,...
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Seurat, Georges - Bathers at Asnières (1884)
Seurat didn't paint Bathers at Asnières to please anyone. He captured an industrial world. Factories loomed. Laborers stared into still...
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Redon, Odilon - The Smiling Spider (1881)
In 1881, Odilon Redon rejected the sunlit, mechanical lies of the 19th century. The Smiling Spider is a masterpiece of...
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Redon, Odilon - The Cyclops (1914)
While the world prepped for war, Odilon Redon ignored the trenches. He looked inward. His 1914 'The Cyclops' swaps charcoal...
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Gauguin, Paul - The Yellow Christ (1889)
Gauguin abandoned Parisian lights. He rejected Impressionist fluff. He went to Brittany. He sought an ancient soul. One the modern...
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Gauguin, Paul - Vision of the Sermon (1888)
In 1888, Paul Gauguin snapped the umbilical cord to objective reality in Brittany. Rejecting the scientific light of Impressionism, he...
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Gauguin, Paul - Where Do We Come From? What Are...
Paul Gauguin painted his masterpiece from the edge of oblivion. Sick, broke, and battling a poisoned mind in Tahiti, he...
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Filiger, Charles - The Hangman’s House (1891)
In 1891, Charles Filiger rejected the loud rebellion of Gauguin for a silent, geometric precision. The Hangman's House crushed the...
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Filiger, Charles - The Recumbent Christ (1895)
Charles Filiger painted to escape the world. He retreated into a silent, internal monastery. His Recumbent Christ isn't just a...
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