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Art Nouveau (1890-1914) Art Nouveau (1890-1914), decorative-art movement centered in Western Europe. It began in the 1880s as a reaction against the historical emphasis of mid-19th-century art, but did not survive World War I. Art nouveau originated in London and was variously called Jugendstil in Germany, Sezessionstil in Austria, and Modernismo in Spain. In general it was most successfully practiced in the decorative arts: furniture, jewelry, and book design and illustration. The style was richly ornamental and asymmetrical, characterized by a whiplash linearity reminiscent of twining plant tendrils. Its exponents chose themes fraught with symbolism, frequently of an erotic nature. They imbued their designs with dreamlike and exotic forms. The movement took its name from La Maison de l'Art Nouveau in Paris, a shop keen to promote modern ideas in art. It was influenced by the Symbolists most obviously in their shared preference for exotic detail, as well as by Celtic and Japanes...

Description English: Photography of Statue "Tanagra" by Jean-Léon Gérôme Français : Photographie de la Statue "Tanagra" de Jean-Léon Gérôme Date 1890 Source http://www.culture.gouv.fr Artist Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904)

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Bohemian (1890) The Bohemian is a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau completed in 1890. It depicts a barefooted young woman sitting on a concrete bench on the south bank of the Seine across from Notre Dame de Paris resting a violin in her lap. Her right arm is resting on her thigh while the palm of her left hand is pressed down on her left knee so that she does not lean on the violin. Her hands are clasped with the fingers pointing forward while her shoulders are wrapped in a shawl dyed maroon and light green, and she is wearing a gray dress that extends to her ankles. The bow of the violin has been stuck through diagonally under the fingerboard. To her right is a maple tree. The subject is a model employed by Bouguereau for this and other paintings, including The Shepherdess. It was owned by The Minneapolis Institute of Arts until 2004 when it was auctioned by Christie's to benefit the acquisition fund. http://en.wikipedia.o...

Psyche et L'Amour (1889) Description: Psyche et L'Amour Date: 1889 Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Psyche_et_LAmour.jpg This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. Eros | Psyche | Amor and Psyche | Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Alexandre Cabanel - Eve After the Fall Date: before 1889

Alexandre Cabanel Born: 28 September 1823, Montpellier, France Died: 23 January 1889 (aged 65) Nationality: French Field: Painting Training: François-Édouard Picot Movement: Academicism Works: Birth of Venus Awards: Prix de Rome Alexandre Cabanel (28 September 1823 – 23 January 1889) was a French painter. Cabanel was born in Montpellier, Hérault. He painted historical, classical and religious subjects in the academic style. He was also well-known as a portrait painter. According to Diccionario Enciclopedico Salvat, Cabanel is the best representative of the L'art pompier and Napoleon III's preferred painter. He entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris at the age of seventeen. Cabanel studied with François-Édouard Picot and exhibited at the Paris Salon for the first time in 1844, and won the Prix de Rome scholarship in 1845 at the age of twenty two. Cabanel was elected a member of the Institute in 1863 and appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in the sam...

Self portrait with Felt Hat Description: Self portrait with Felt Hat Year: 1888 Author: Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) Type: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 44 cm × 37.5 cm (17.3 in × 14.8 in) Location: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisionism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Self_portrait_with_Felt_Hat.jpg Modern art | Post-Impressionism | Impressionism

Echo (Alexandre, 1887) Description: "Echo" by French painter Alexandre Cabanel. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Date: 1887 Author: Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889)

The Return of Spring (Français : Le printemps) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: The Return of Spring (Français : Le printemps) Year: 1886 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 79.25 × 46.375 in (201.30 × 117.79 cm) Current location: Joslyn Art Museum http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Return_of_Spring_(1886).jpg This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer. Paintings in the Joslyn Art Museum | Paintings by William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Paintings of spring

The Cliffs at Etretat Title: The Cliffs at Etretat Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 65 x 81,1 cm Location: Williamstown Gallery: Clark Art Institute Year: 1885 Artist: Claude Monet (1840–1926)

Post-Impressionism (1885 - 1905) Post-Impressionism in Western painting, movement in France that represented both an extension of Impressionism and a rejection of that style's inherent limitations. The term Post-Impressionism was coined by the English art critic Roger Fry for the work of such late 19th-century painters as Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others. All of these painters except van Gogh were French, and most of them began as Impressionists; each of them abandoned the style, however, to form his own highly personal art. Impressionism was based, in its strictest sense, on the objective recording of nature in terms of the fugitive effects of colour and light. The Post-Impressionists rejected this limited aim in favour of more ambitious expression, admitting their debt, however, to the pure, brilliant colours of Impressionism, its freedom from traditional subject matter, and its technique of defining form with s...

Woman with Seashell (Femme au Coquillage) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Woman with Seashell (Femme au Coquillage) Year: 1885 Source: http://www.goodart.org/blog/WilliamBouguereau-FemmeAuCoquillage-1885Large.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouguereau,_William_-_Femme_au_Coquillage_-1885.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_kneeling_women http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women_by_posture http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Nude_women

Lost Pleiad (1884) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Lost Pleiad (Français : L'Etoile Perdue) Year: 1884 Dimensions: 195.5 × 95 cm Source: http://www.artrenewal.org/ The Pleiades (pronounced /ˈplaɪ.ədiːz/, also [ˈpliːədiːz]; from the Greek Πλειάδες [pleːˈades], Modern [pliˈaðes]), companions of Artemis, were the seven daughters of the titan Atlas and the sea-nymph Pleione born on Mount Cyllene. They are the sisters of Calypso, Hyas, the Hyades, and the Hesperides. The Pleiades were nymphs in the train of Artemis, and together with the seven Hyades were called the Atlantides, Dodonides, or Nysiades, nursemaids and teachers to the infant Bacchus. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Lost_Pleiad_(1884).jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology) This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and tho...

Seated Nude (1884) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Seated Nude (Français: Nu assis) Year: 1884 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Seated_Nude_(1884).jpg

Biblis (1884) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) Title: Biblis (Byblis, Bublis, Βυβλίς) Year: 1884 In Greek mythology, Byblis or Bublis (Ancient Greek: Βυβλίς) was a daughter of Miletus. Her mother was either Tragasia, Cyanee, daughter of the river-god Meander, or Eidothea, daughter of King Eurytus of Caria. She fell in love with Caunus, Apollo’s grandson and her brother. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Biblis_(1884).jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblis This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Les Deux Baigneuses (1884) Date: 1884 Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Les_Deux_Baigneuses_(1884).jpg This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - The Youth of Bacchus (1884) This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Description English: Painting »Die fünf Sinne« („The five senses“) by Hans Makart (created in the years 1840-1884) Deutsch: Gemälde »Die fünf Sinne« von Hans Makart (entstanden 1840–1884): Sehen, Hören, Riechen, Schmecken, Tasten. Date 1884 Author Hans Makart (1840–1884) This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Makart_Fuenf_Sinne.jpg

La Nuit (1883) William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_La_Nuit_(1883).jpg This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

The Nut Gatherers (1882) Description: The Nut Gatherers, Les noisettes (Français) Date: 1882 Author: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) The Nut Gatherers (Les Noisettes) is an 1882 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It is one of the most popular pieces at the Detroit Institute of Arts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nut_Gatherers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_The_Nut_Gatherers_(1882).jpg This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Evening Mood (1882) Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Evening Mood Year: 1882 Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 207.5 × 108 cm (81.69 × 42.52 in) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouguereau-Evening_Mood_1882.jpg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

Day (1881) William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) - Day (1881) In ancient Greek city cults, Tyche (Τύχη, meaning "luck" in Greek, Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Day_(1881).jpg This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

Dawn Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905) Title: Dawn Year: 1881 This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or fewer.

The Naiads, 1881 Description: The Naiads, 1881 Date: 1881 Author: Gioacchino Pagliei (Italian, 1852-1896) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gioacchino_Pagliei_-_The_Naiads,_1881.JPG This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. Gioacchino Pagliei | Naiads | 1881 paintings | Mothers and daughters in art | Female nude in paintings | Shells in art | People in nature | Females with birds in art

In the Tepidarium Artist: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) Title: In the Tepidarium Date: 1881 Technique: Oil on canvas The tepidarium was the warm Roman bath. This painting shows a girl holding an ostrich feather and a strigel used for scraping the skin after soaping and oiling it. Alma-Tadema generally contrasted archaeologically accurate detail with aggressively modern figures and attitudes. He was also the most gifted exponent among Victorian painters in rendering exactly textures, surfaces and colours. References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tepidarium_Lawrence_Alma-Tadema_(1836-1912).jpg http://akorra.com/2010/03/06/top-20-beautiful-female-nude-artwork/ This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Cubism Cubism was one of the most influential visual art styles of the early twentieth century. It was created by Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) and Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963) in Paris between 1907 and 1914. The French art critic Louis Vauxcelles coined the term Cubism after seeing the landscapes Braque had painted in 1908 at L'Estaque in emulation of Cézanne. Vauxcelles called the geometric forms in the highly abstracted works "cubes." Other influences on early Cubism have been linked to Primitivism and non-Western sources. The stylization and distortion of Picasso's ground-breaking Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (Museum of Modern Art, New York), painted in 1907, came from African art. Picasso had first seen African art when, in May or June 1907, he visited the ethnographic museum in the Palais du Trocadéro in Paris. The Cubist painters rejected the inherited concept that art should copy nature, or that they should adopt the traditional techniques of p...