Art History - Fine Art America (Page 3)

Famous Paintings

Wrestlers, wave crests, working women and a painter’s own studio: the ten works that made Courbet the founder of Realism.

Famous Paintings

Gleaners, sowers and shepherdesses: the ten works in which Millet gave the French peasant the dignity of an Old Master saint.

Famous Paintings

Goddesses, angels, and barefoot peasant children, painted with unearthly polish: the ten works that define the great academic master.

Comparisons

Baroque persuades you; Rococo entertains you. The dates, the palettes, the patrons and the six-second test for telling the two apart.

Famous Paintings

Schoolyards, shipwrecks and the open Atlantic: ten paintings by the self-taught New Englander who became America’s greatest realist.

Famous Paintings

Thunderheads over the Rockies, golden light in Yosemite, and buffalo on the plains: the ten paintings that sold America its own West.

Movements

Four painters took four different exits from Impressionism — and between them produced most of twentieth-century art.

Famous Paintings

Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon and the cliffs of the Green River: the ten works that made Moran the painter of the American West.

Famous Paintings

Wet sand, white dresses, and the Mediterranean at midday: the ten paintings that made Sorolla the master of Spanish light.

Movements

The whiplash curve, the poster, and the twenty years around 1900 when Europe tried to redesign everything at once.

Famous Paintings

Parisian society, London river parties, and a late life spent illustrating the Bible: the ten works that define James Tissot.

Famous Paintings

Cool porcelain skin, impossible curves, and the finest line in French painting: the ten works that define Ingres.