Blue Nude



Pablo Picasso

Spanish Cubist Painter and Sculptor, 1881-1973

• Also known as: Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
• Relationships: Painter Françoise Gilot lived with Picasso for ten years and bore him two children: Claude and Paloma Picasso.
Picasso fathered two other children - Paulo (with Olga Koklova) and Maya (with Marie-Thérèse Walter).
Picasso also had a long affair with Dora Maar.
Founded the Cubist movement in collaboration with Georges Braque.

Quote:We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

- Pablo Picasso

Web Sites About the Artist:

On-Line Picasso Project
Extensive biography and overview of the artist's work, with excellent reproductions. Highly recommended.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?R090+0

Succession Picasso Official Web Site
http://www.picasso.fr/fr/picasso_page_index.php

Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh
Dutch Post-Impressionist Painter, 1853-1890

I have a terrible need of -- dare I say the word? -- religion. Then I go out at night to paint the stars...
- Vincent van Gogh, Arles, 1888

Web Sites About the Artist:

The Troubled Life Of Vincent Van Gogh
http://bonniebutterfield.com/VincentVanGogh.htm

Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery
Awesome site with good reproductions of all of van Gogh's works - over 2,500 images
http://www.vggallery.com/


WebExhibits
van Gogh's Letters - unabridged and annotated
http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/

Mona Lisa



Leonardo da Vinci
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519

• Also known as: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Léonard de Vinci
• Relationships: Uncle of Pierino da Vinci.
Studied under Andrea del Verrocchio.
Leonardo's students included Andrea Solario, Bernardino Luini, Cesare da Sesto, Francesco Melzi, Ambrogio de Predis and Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio.
Subject of the book and recent movie The Da Vinci Code.

Web Sites About the Artist:
Leonardo da Vinci: Man of Both Worlds
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?R152+0

Leonardo's Horse
Home page of the group behind the enormous horse sculpture which Leonardo designed but was never able to complete. The statue now stands in Milan.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?R466+0

The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?R149+0

Universal Leonardo
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/scripts/r.pl?RP42+0

The Departure of the Boats, Etretat



Claude Monet
French Impressionist Painter, 1840-1926

• Also known as: Claude Oscar Monet
• Relationships: Studied under Charles Gleyre.
Monet's students included American Impressionists Theodore Butler, Lilla Cabot Perry and Theodore Robinson.

Web Sites About the Artist:

Claude Monet Foundation at Giverny, France
http://www.fondation-monet.com/uk/sommaire/index.html

Village of Giverny/Claude Monet Home Page
http://www.intermonet.com/

Nan Goldin
American Photographer, born in 1953

Nan Goldin Kee in Times Square, NYC

Websites about the Artist:

Foto Tapeta
http://fototapeta.art.pl/2003/ngie.php

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies
http://www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=88

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Goldin

Andy Warhol
American Pop Artist, 1928-1987

Born Andrew Warhola, August 6, 1928, in the industrial city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Andy Warhol is best known for his exploration of Pop Art, mass producing images of mass produced objects.

His most famous works depicted Campbell's soup cans. Enlarged, hand-painted or silkscreened, framed, and hung in an art gallery, Warhol succeeded in turning these mundane images into ironic "art".

Warhol experimented in media such as film, sculpture, paint, and silkscreen, but perhaps his greatest work was his invention of himself as an international celebrity and pop culture icon.

Web Sites About the Artist:

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
http://www.warholfoundation.org/

Warholstars
Site about Andy Warhol and his circle of friends/artists/celebrities
http://www.warholstars.org/

The Happy Unicorn, 1977



Spanish Surrealist Painter, 1904-1989

A flamboyant painter and sometime writer, sculptor and experimental film-maker, Salvador Dali was probably the greatest Surrealist artist, using bizarre dream imagery to create unforgettable and unmistakable landscapes of his inner world. His most famous work is The Persistence Of Memory.

Dali often clashed with André Breton and other members of the "official" Surrealist circle over the content of his paintings and the right-wing views he sometimes espoused, and was kicked out of the group in 1934. Breton coined a brilliant anagram for Dali's name: Avida Dollars (which more or less translates to "Eager for Dollars"); Dali shot back, The only difference between me and the Surrealists is that I am a Surrealist.

Web Sites About the Artist:

3D-Dali
http://www.3d-dali.com/

Daniel's Site about Salvador Dali
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/danart98/home.html

Salvador Dali
http://dali.urvas.lt/

Salvador Dali Art Gallery
http://www.dali-gallery.com/html/galleries.htm

VirtualDali
Groovy site with lots of artworks on display
http://www.virtualdali.com

French Fauvist Painter and Sculptor, 1869-1954

• Relationships: Grandfather of Paul Matisse.
Matisse's students included Max Weber.

Quote:I have painted almost 1,200 pictures. More than 2,500 of them are in the USA. --

Henri Matisse


Henri Matisse was the most important French painter of the 20th century, rivaling Picasso in his influence.

His background was diverse. He studied under Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau and experimented with Pointillism, which he found rigidly confining. Later, building on the work of Cézanne and Gauguin, he and Andre Derain developed Fauvism, a much freer and more expressive style of painting which was in fact the forerunner of Expressionism.

Web Sites:

Unofficial Site for the Musée Matisse, Le Cateau, France (in French)
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/stanmer/591/choix2.htm

Kilidavid
http://www.kilidavid.com/Art/Pages/Artists/matisse.htm

Autumn in Bavaria, 1908




Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944

• Also known as: Vasilij Kandinskij
Vasilii Kandinskii
Vasily Kandinski
• Relationships: Lived with Gabriele Munter for a decade until he returned to Russia on the outbreak of World War I.
Associated with the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany.
Founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a Munich group of Expressionist painters.
Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s.

Web Sites About the Artist:

Kandinsky Gallery
http://www.sloth.ca/kandinsky/index.html

Gallery of Russian Art
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Parc/2331...llery.html

Kilidavid
http://www.kilidavid.com/Art/Pages/Artis...dinsky.htm

Mont-Sainte Victoire

Paul Cézanne
French Post-Impressionist Painter, 1839-1906

Web Sites About the Artist:

Atelier Cézanne, Aix en Provence, France
Cézanne's studio, which is open to the public. The website has a bit of art online, notably six views of La Montagne Sainte-Victoire
http://www.atelier-cezanne.com/aix-en-provence.html

Le Petit Musée Cézanne
http://www.cezanne.com/fr/p_index.htm