Awesome Art

Van Gogh to his brother - "I have a canvas of cypresses with some ears of wheat, some poppies, a blue sky like a piece of Scotch plaid"

The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), will be sent on loan to the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Expressionism developed during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Expressionis was opposed to academic standards that had prevailed in Europe and emphasized artist's subjective emotion.

Born in Bourges, Cher, France into a successful bourgeois family who encouraged her and her sister Edma Morisot in their exploration of art!

(b) Lowell, MA, 11 July 1834; d London, 17 July 1903). American painter, printmaker, designer.

The name of the impressionist movement is derived from the title of a Claude Monet work, Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant)

Each one of Van Gogh's irises is unique. He carefully studied their movements and shapes to create a variety of curved silhouettes bounded by wavy, twisting, and curling lines.

A Brief Understanding of the Sunflower Paintings.

Most anyone knows the story of how the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear in a fit of madness. The story of van Gogh's madness was part of a coverup by none other than van Gogh's friend and fellow artist Paul Gauguin.

Van Gogh claimed to have a "terrible need for religion" when he painted Starry Night Over the Rhone.