Famous Paintings
Paul Klee’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Angels, fish, floating balloons and grids of color: ten works by the twentieth century’s most inventive and least pompous modernist.
Art History
Famous Paintings
J.M.W. Turner’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Fire, shipwreck, moonlight and Venetian haze: the ten pictures that made Turner the greatest painter of weather in Western art.
Movements
What Is Impressionism?
The movement that made painting a record of light rather than of subject — who started it, when, and the five things to look for.
Famous Paintings
John Singer Sargent’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Scandalous society portraits, a lantern-lit garden, a flamenco dancer and a war memorial: the ten works that define Sargent.
Famous Paintings
Eugène Delacroix’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Revolution, shipwreck, lion hunts and Moroccan horsemen: the ten paintings that made Delacroix the leader of French Romanticism.
Comparisons
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Friendship That Exploded
Nine weeks in a small yellow house in Arles, and the night it ended — plus how two painters who worked side by side made such completely different pictures.
Famous Paintings
Peter Paul Rubens’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Altarpieces, abductions, lions, queens and one very famous hat: the ten works that made Rubens the great engine of Baroque painting.
Famous Paintings
Amedeo Modigliani’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Long necks, tilted heads, and eyes left blank: the ten works that made Modigliani the most recognizable portraitist of modern Paris.
Comparisons
Impressionism vs Post-Impressionism
Impressionism recorded what the eye saw. Post-Impressionism kept the color and put structure, feeling and symbol back in. Here is where the line falls.
Famous Paintings
Egon Schiele’s Ten Most Famous Paintings
Ten defining works by the great Viennese modernist — searing self-portraits, a beloved model, and townscapes of astonishing color.
Famous Paintings
Alphonse Mucha’s Ten Most Iconic Posters and Panels
Champagne, cigarette papers, bicycles and the zodiac: the ten designs that turned a Moravian illustrator into the face of Art Nouveau.
Comparisons
Monet vs Manet: What’s the Difference?
Two different painters, eight years apart, who knew each other and were confused with each other from the day they met — here is how to tell them apart.