Art 1850-1950

  • The Stone Breakers - Gustave Coubert

    The Stone Breakers - Gustave Coubert

    He reflected everyday life and the social problems of industrialization. He was one of the most important painters in the realism time.
  • Angelus -  Jean-François Millet

    Angelus - Jean-François Millet

    This realim picture shows a sad couple with his dead son, resting in a basket on the floor. He was very criticized for painting this work.
  • Olympia - Édouard Manet

    Olympia - Édouard Manet

    He was one of the most outstanding Impressionists painter of his time. Impressionists used a technique of loose and quick brush strokes of used many different colors.
  • The Lecture - Berthe Morisot

    The Lecture - Berthe Morisot

    She was one of the most popular impressionist painter. She participated in many art exhibitions in París and near the city. She painted landscapes and people in they everyday life.
  • Caprice - Antoni Gaudí

    Caprice - Antoni Gaudí

    Is a modernist building located in the Cantabrian town of Comillas.
    This work belongs to the orientalist stage of Gaud, period in which the architect carried out a series of works of marked oriental taste.
  • Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh

    Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh

    He was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter, author of about 900 paintings. His painting is characterized by the presence of swirls.
  • The Silent Monastery - Isaak Levitán

    The Silent Monastery - Isaak Levitán

    He was a Russian painter of Jewish origin.Young Levitán received a notable influence from Corot, who knew how to move to the Russian landscape.
  • The Scream - Edvard Munch

    The Scream - Edvard Munch

    In the XIX century, European artists were influenced by Japonese and African art and figures.
  • Woman Reading - Henri Matisse

    Woman Reading - Henri Matisse

    He was the maximum representative of fauvisme. He also pinted with other styles such as impressionism and pointillism. This work has been versioned by other artists.
     
  • Medea - Alfons Mucha

    Medea - Alfons Mucha

    He was a Czech painter and decorative artist, widely recognized as one of the greatest exponents of Art Nouveau. He painted advertising posters for shops or performances.
     
  • Clara Rilke-Westhoff - Paula Modersohn-Becker

    Clara Rilke-Westhoff - Paula Modersohn-Becker

    Paula was a German painter representant of the expressionist movement in her country. Most of her works are portraits, like this one of her best friend Clara.
  • The Kiss - Gustav Klimt

    The Kiss - Gustav Klimt

    This is one of the most famous modernist pictures. It has a decorative purpose. It's shapes are inpired in nature and the woman became a recurrent symbol.
  • Abstract Speed + Sound - Giacomo Balla

    Abstract Speed + Sound - Giacomo Balla

    His drawings were inspired by the power of machines, movement and technology as symbols of the modern world. He was one of the most important artist of the futurist style.
  • Model - Liubov Popova

    Model - Liubov Popova

    Constructivism was an artistic movement which arose in Russia.He did not pretend to be an artistic style but the expression of a political conviction.
  • Black Square - Kazimir Malèvitx

    Black Square - Kazimir Malèvitx

    Suprematism was an artistic tendency devised and headed by the Ukrainian painter Kazimir Malèvitx, which emerged a few years after Cubism. In this tendency, the formal elements are reduced to the triangle, the square, the cross and the circle.
  • Composition - Piet Mondrian

    Composition - Piet Mondrian

    Neoplasticism is an artistic movement started in Holland in 1917 by Piet Mondrian. It is linked to the birth of abstract art and other avant-garde movements (especially Cubism and Futurism).
     
  • Cathedrals of Broadway - Florine Stettheimer

    Cathedrals of Broadway - Florine Stettheimer

    Dadaists artists resort to the assembly of the images to make collage. His art was ilogical and impossible to understand for the public.
  • The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí 

    The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí 

    He was a painter, writer and Catalan thinker, who became one of the main representatives of Surrealism. His pictorial skills are often attributed their admiration for Renaissance art.
     
  • Guernica - Pablo Picasso

    Guernica - Pablo Picasso

    Picasso made a cubist picture expressing his vision of the bombing and called it Guernica. It has become a fundamental work to understand the history of art.
  • The Birth of Day - Joan Miró

    The Birth of Day - Joan Miró

    Considered one of the highest representatives of surrealism. In his work he reflected his interest in the subconscious and his country. His first works show strong Fauvist, Cubist and Expressionist influences,