Art Stories
The Painter of Morning Bouquet Tears Wrote Modern Art's Most Quoted Definition of a Painting When He Was Just 19
In August 1890, a nineteen-year-old Maurice Denis defined a painting as 'essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.' Nine years later he made Morning Bouquet...
The Painter of Morning Bouquet Tears Wrote Modern Art's Most Quoted Definition of a Painting When He Was Just 19
In August 1890, a nineteen-year-old Maurice Denis defined a painting as 'essentially a flat surface covered with colors assembled in a certain order.' Nine years later he made Morning Bouquet...
Alfred Dehodencq Went to Spain to Recover From a Wound Suffered in the Paris Uprising of 1848 and Stayed for Years to Paint Its Religious Processions
Shot during the Paris uprising of 1848, French Romantic painter Alfred Dehodencq crossed into Spain in 1849 to convalesce and stayed five years. In Seville he painted A Confraternity in...
Alfred Dehodencq Went to Spain to Recover From a Wound Suffered in the Paris Uprising of 1848 and Stayed for Years to Paint Its Religious Processions
Shot during the Paris uprising of 1848, French Romantic painter Alfred Dehodencq crossed into Spain in 1849 to convalesce and stayed five years. In Seville he painted A Confraternity in...
Paul Cezanne Was Caught in a Storm While Painting Outdoors and Died Days Later, Devoted to Wooded Paths Like This One Until the End
On 15 October 1906, Paul Cezanne was caught in a storm while painting outdoors near Aix-en-Provence and died a week later of pneumonia. This article follows the wooded paths he...
Paul Cezanne Was Caught in a Storm While Painting Outdoors and Died Days Later, Devoted to Wooded Paths Like This One Until the End
On 15 October 1906, Paul Cezanne was caught in a storm while painting outdoors near Aix-en-Provence and died a week later of pneumonia. This article follows the wooded paths he...
Albert Bierstadt Earned the Highest Price Ever Paid for an American Painting, Then Died Bankrupt and Out of Fashion
In 1889 Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo sold for $50,000, the highest price paid for an American painting in the 19th century. By 1895 he was bankrupt, and...
Albert Bierstadt Earned the Highest Price Ever Paid for an American Painting, Then Died Bankrupt and Out of Fashion
In 1889 Albert Bierstadt's The Last of the Buffalo sold for $50,000, the highest price paid for an American painting in the 19th century. By 1895 he was bankrupt, and...
Odilon Redon Worked Almost Entirely in Black for Decades, Insisting It Was the Most Essential Color of All
From the early 1870s to the 1890s, Odilon Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, the works he called his noirs. He defended black as the most essential color,...
Odilon Redon Worked Almost Entirely in Black for Decades, Insisting It Was the Most Essential Color of All
From the early 1870s to the 1890s, Odilon Redon worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography, the works he called his noirs. He defended black as the most essential color,...
The Nazis Seized More Than 600 of Kirchner's Works as Degenerate Art the Year Before He Took His Own Life
In the summer of 1937, Nazi commissions removed more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from German museums and hung 32 of them for ridicule in Munich's Entartete Kunst...
The Nazis Seized More Than 600 of Kirchner's Works as Degenerate Art the Year Before He Took His Own Life
In the summer of 1937, Nazi commissions removed more than 600 works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner from German museums and hung 32 of them for ridicule in Munich's Entartete Kunst...