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Pieter Claesz is one of the most important still-life painters in Haarlem. The food presented in this table was the most extravagent during this time in Netherlands (Recent Acquisitions).
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Claude Monet was one of the fathers of Impressionism Movement along with Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille (Claude Monet the Complete Works).
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Regardless of his fame as a painter, he tried to commit suicide by throwing himself into the Siene in 1868, due to financial problems (Claude Oscar Monet Biography).
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This painting is oil on canvas. Monet painted this scenery while on vacation with his family that captures how "leisure time" was spent during this time (The Met Museum).
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Edgar Degas is considered one of the founders of the Impressionism art movement. He liked to paint landscapes and modern life in urban and suburban areas (The Transformation of Landscape Painting in France). -
This painting has been exhibited in many famous museums in America, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington (Poppy Fields Near Argenteuil).
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Despite people thinking that he is a founder of the Impressionism art movement, he considered hiself a realist (from Realism). His first paintings depicted battle, but by the 1860's he turned to paint theater and ballet (Degas, Edgar).
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This paiting was made by Winslow Homer in 1880. He was known as a man of many talents in illustration, oil paint, and watercolor (Winslow Homer In The National Gallery of Art ).
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This is one the first marine paintings Homer made when he settled in Maine. He liked to paint the furious waves crashing onto the shores despite the "inclement weather" (Winslow Homer In The National Gallery of Art).
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Van Gogh produced 900 paintings, and more than 1,100 works on paper (Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890).
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Van Gogh admired Barbizon artists, which influenced him to paint rural life (Vicent Van Gogh 1853-1890)
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This painting is among the most valued paintings and was "seized by the Nazis" from the Bloch-Bauer family in Vienna during World War II (Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer:The Woman in Gold).
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Oil on Canvas. Geogia O'Keeffe was the only artist to use flowers continuosly as a motif (Georgia O'Keeffe). Many accused her of painting illusions of female genitalia, but O'Keeffe said she had no hidden symbolism in her paintings.
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Okeefee did not follow a specific art movement, she rather experimented with abstract motifs of nature (Georgia O'Keeffe Biography).
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Oil on canvas. Georgia began her art studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1905 at the age of 18 (O'keeffe, Georgia).
