Bacon, Henry: Henry Bacon(1839-1912) was an American Painter born in Massachusetts. He was a Realist, having painted works like
The Pilgrim Hall Museum in 1877,
Obelisk--Karnak in 1900, and
Egyptian Pyramids. He enlisted in the military and fought in the Civil War. He was wounded in the Battle of Bull Run and discharged in 1862. He went to France and learned figure painting.
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Wikipedia Bierstadt, Albert: Albert Bierstadt, lived from January 8, 1830 until February 18, 1902, and was one of the most brilliant landscape painters in American History. He was part of a group of painters known as the Hudson River School who created paintings that were very detailed, romantic and had glowing light. He was not a popular artist with the critics of his day, blasting him as overly indulgent because he painted on very large canvases. He is famous for a number of works, like
Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains California 1868,
Emigrants crossing the Plains 1867, and
The Oregon Trail 1869.
-WikipediaCezanne, Paul: Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) was a French painter who was part of art movement called
Post-Impressionism. Cezanne is credited with bridging the gap between the Impressionist movement and
Cubism. His use of planes of color, and expansion of Divisionism, and his love of the 'pure shape' came through in his work and influenced an entire art movement.
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WikipediaDali, Salvadore: Salvadore Dali was part of an Art Movement in the 1920's and 1930's called Surrealism, which grew out of the psychological writings of Sigmund Freud. These paintings were representations of journeys taken into the subconscious through hallucinogenic drugs. In the 1940's, Salvadore moved on to classical and religious themes in his paintings, living until 1989.
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About.comDegas, Edgar: Edgar Degas was a French painter that was part of the Impressioninst Art movement that took place during the 1860's. He focused primarily on painting images of the ballet, ballerinas at practice, and ballet performances.
He lived from 1834 to 1917.
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Duchamp, Marcel: Marcel Duchamp(1887-1968) is famous for creating/founding the Dadaist movement. His focus was to make everything that seemed innocuous a piece of art. The most famous of his statements was a urinal, which he titled
Fountain, and signed it R. Mutt.
-About.comEakins, Thomas: Thomas Eakins was an American Realist painter born in 1844. He was one of the first artists to paint from photographs, and was classified as a scientific painter because of how accurate he could be with detail. Some of his famous works include:
Max Schmitt in a Single Scull, 1871,
The Gross Clinic, 1875,
Miss Amelia van Buren, 1889-91,
The Concert Singer, 1892, and
Portrait of Maud Cook, 1895. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1916.
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About.comEardley, Joan: Joan Eardley was a British Realist painter who painted seascapes in stormy weather, fishing villages, and still life. She was lived from 1921 and died in 1963 of breast cancer.
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Modern British Artists.comEscher, Maurits Cornelis: M.C. Escher lived from 1898 until 1972. He is famous for churning out 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. He is most famous for optical illusions of structures that cannot be built under the laws of physics, such as
Ascending and Descending, which is a castle which has a series of steps that go in a circle on its roof. If one follows the image with one's eyes in a clockwise direction, the stairs continuously go up. If one follows it in a counterclockwise direction, it appears that they go down.
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MCEscher.comFautrier, Jean: Jean Fautrier(1898-1964) was a painter and sculptor who lived in France. His early work, influenced by his education at the Royal Academy of Art, was composed of still life, nudes, and landscapes. His latter years was spent making abstract art.
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