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19th Century art and artists

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Painter known for his realist style depicting peasant life in rural Normandy.Jean Francois Millet
A style which tries to accurately depict nature or everyday life in an unembellished way.Realism
French Impressionist who painted children, flowers, beautiful scenes, and the female form.Pierre-Auguste Renoir
One of the original French Impressionists who made the transition from Realism and exhibited in the 1863"Salon de Refuses".Edouard Manet
A French Postimpressionist and friend of Vincent van Gogh who expressed himself through color and symbolism.Paul Gauguin
A style in which expression is shown through bold, brilliant and wild color; dubbed "wild beasts" by critics.Fauvism
American painter(1856-1925)who achieved a great reputation for portraits. His portrait of Madame Gautreau received derision. Admirer of Monet.John Singer Sargent
Movement in art that stressed emotion, imagination or fantasy, and was a direct rebellion against social convention.Romanticism
American painter known for the painting "Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother"(1871).James Abbott McNeill Whistler
A Dutch painter and Postimpressionist. Used strong color and course brushstrokes. His mental illness ended in his suicide.Vincent van Gogh
The leader of the Fauve movement; known for expressive color his entire career.Henri Matisse
English landscape watercolorist who influenced the Impressionist style.Joseph M.W. Turner
Artist whose drawings, engravings, and paintings of everyday scenes and portraits of aristocracy changed to atrocious scenes of war after the Napleonic invasion and Spanish war.Francisco de Goya
Postimpressionist whose ideas influenced Cubism. Known as the father of modern painting.Paul Cezanne
He was a Fauve artist with a flamboyant personality and no formal art training.Maurice de Vlaminck
The most important museum in Paris.The Louvre
A French artist known for a technique called pointillism.Georges Seurat
Norwegian artist who influenced German Expressionism; Known for "The Scream"(1893).Edvard Munch
A style that attempts to accurately and objectively record reality through use of light and color.Impressionism
The French artist who gave a new style its namewhen he titled his painting "Impression:Sunrise".Claude Monet
An aristocratic painter and pastel artist whose noted subjects were race horses and ballerinas.Edgar Degas
A French female artist who exhibited the Impressionists. Married Manet's brother.Berthe Morisot
American female Impressionist painter and printmaker.Mary Cassatt
A Fauve artiest and friend of Maurice de Vlaminck.Andre Derain
A method of painting where the placement of small dots or strokes blend at a distance to give an effect of color and luminosity.Pointillism
A style in which the artist seeks to depict an emotion through distortion, exaggeration, and/or dynamic application of formal elements.Expressionism
French Postimpressionist born into an aristocratic family. He broke both his legs in his youth, which stunted his growth. Frequented cabarets and the Moulin-Rouge.Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Started as an apprentice of stained glass art. His paintings were influenced by this, resulting in glowing colors with heavy black outline. Exhibited with the Fauves.Georges Rouault
A stained glass artist known for his Art Nouveau style, mostly on windows and lamps.Louis Comfort Tiffany
American painter and watercolorist who depicted humankind dwarfed by a powerful landscape scene to show the relationship between nature and man.Winslow Homer
Amovement away from representation toward abstraction; dreams and visions were shown through brilliant color and forms. Van Gogh and Gauguin were known to use this.Symbolism
English aesthetic movement which began as a reaction to mass production resulting in a low level of craftmanship in the decorative arts.Arts and Crafts movement
French sculptor who created great works like "The Thinker".Auguste Rodin
Decorative art style starting in the late 19th century known for its curving lines, elegance and detailed patterns.Art Nouveau


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