Intro to Modern Art History
Cézanne, Paul - The Bay of Marseille, Seen from...
Cezanne fled to L’Estaque in 1870 to avoid the draft. He ignored the flickering light of his peers to build...
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Cézanne, Paul -Mont Sainte-Victoire with Large ...
In 1887, Paul Cézanne rejected the fleeting light of Impressionism to rebuild the landscape. Using his limestone obsession, Mont Sainte-Victoire,...
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Cézanne, Paul - A Modern Olympia (1874)
In 1874, Paul Cézanne declared war on the polished, dead art of the Salon. A Modern Olympia is a frantic,...
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Redon, Odilon - The Spirit of the Waters (1878)
In 1878, Odilon Redon retreated into the shadows of his Noirs to paint the nightmares we ignore. The Spirit of...
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Cézanne, Paul - The House of the Hanged Man (1873)
In 1873, Paul Cézanne arrived in Auvers-sur-Oise to dismantle traditional perspective. The House of the Hanged Man rejected the airy...
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Cézanne, Paul - The Artist’s Father (1866)
In 1866, Paul Cézanne turned a portrait of his banker father into an act of artistic masonry. Using a palette...
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Cézanne, Paul - Still Life with Bread and Eggs ...
In 1865, Paul Cézanne chose violence over elegance. His Couillarde period rejected the polished glazes of the Paris Salon in...
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Cézanne, Paul - L’Estaque, Melting Snow (1870)
France burned while Cézanne fled. Avoiding the draft in 1870, he painted Melting Snow in L'Estaque in a single, frantic...
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Van Gogh, Vincent - Head of a Skeleton with a B...
In 1886, Vincent van Gogh was rotting in Antwerp and bored with the dead rules of the Royal Academy. This...
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Van Gogh, Vincent - Agostina Segatori Sitting i...
In 1887, Vincent van Gogh painted Agostina Segatori at a crossroads of modernism and tobacco haze. Surrounded by Japanese ukiyo-e...
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