There are a lot of Modern Period Artist and Painters that have made an impact to the world of Arts. These remarkable artists had been the leader of several movements such as cubism, Impressionism and Conceptual art. Their life story is as interesting and colourful as their artworks which art fans and lovers craved to know more about. These genius artists had turned an ordinary canvas into a remarkable work of art.
Claude Monet’s Garden Painting
This review will discuss about the life story of these modern masters and their superb artwork. This review has also provided samples of their masterful work and their greatest paintings that had made them famous. We have discussed several modern artists that were influential in several art movements in modern times such as Degas, Pablo Picasso, Ad Reinhardt, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet and Wassily Kandinsky. Each of these masters has their own styles that had made them famous around the world.
- Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834–1917) – Popularly known as Edgar Degas, he was a famous French painter that had an incredible array of expertise including sculpture, printmaking and drawing. Considered as one founders of Impressionism, Edgar Degas preferably wanted to be named as a realist. He was an excellent Draughtsman in which much of his works were portrayed with dancers that displayed his mastery of depicting movements. His superb paintings are considered among the greatest work of arts in the history of Art.
Born on July 19, 1834 in Paris, France, his early ambition was to become a history painter but eventually moved to become a classical painter when he was in his thirties. His famous paintings include:
- La Toilette
- At The Races
- Musicians in the Orchestra
- Place de la Concorde
- L’Absinthe
- The Dance Class
- Portrait of the Bellelli Family
- After the Bath, Woman Drying her Nape
Edgar Degas died on September 27, 1917 in Paris, France. All of his works were not created with the intention for exhibition but these paintings were later on discovered after his death. His influence on painting has touched a lot of renowned painters such as Walter Sickert, Mary Cassatt and Jean-Louis Forain and had won remarkable admiration from distinguished artists.
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1972) – This Spanish painter was born October 25, 1881 in Málaga, Spain with a birth name of Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruiz y Picasso. He was also famous as a draughtsman and a sculptor and one reputedly one of the founder of the Cubist movement. Pablo Picasso showed interest in art at an early age. At age 7, his father, who happened to be a painter too, taught him the first formal training in oil painting and figure drawing. Pablo and his parents moved to La Coruña so his father can work as a professor at the School of Fine Arts, which they stayed for four years.
Pablo had a traumatic and tragic experience in 1895 when his sister died of Diphtheria. After Pablo’s sister death, the family moved to Barcelona where Pablo, at age 13, studied in the School of Fine Arts. With great artistic ability and remarkable skill as an artist, his father and uncle decided to send him to the finest art school in Spain, Royal Academy of San Fernando. In 1900, he went to Paris where he met Max Jacob and shared an apartment with him.