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Read the biography of any of the 1000s of artists and find information
on artwork and masterpieces. Or find the posters, prints, or books you've
been looking for!
Its all here on The Masterpiece Directory!
Use the tables to the right to find artists or art periods. Or look
below to learn more about our current Featured Artwork and Art Periods,
Artist, and Art Site.
(the featured sections change often and contain links to specials on
posters and prints)
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Featured Artwork
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| Leonardo da Vinci
"The Virgin & St. Anne" |
Salvador Dali
"Atavistic Ruins After The Rain" |
Rene Magritte
"Not to be Reproduced" |
Thomas Gainsborough
"The Morning Walk" |
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Featured Artist
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Francisco de Goya
GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco Jose de, Spanish painter and etcher born
in Fuendetodos, Aragon, Spain, March 30, 1746 and died Bordeaux, France,
April 16, 1828. Though of humble origin, he cut a figure in the literary
and aristocratic salons of Madrid, where he came to know the beautiful,
profligate Duchess of Alba (1762-1802), with whom he fell in love. Of
an intellectual bent, he counted leading men of letters among his friends,
and his opinions were sought by art connoisseurs and historians.
read
de Goya's Biography...
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Featured Art History Article
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Expressionism
EXPRESSIONISM, as a term, was used first by 20th century German painters
but later applied to literature, music, and other arts. Intended as
a reply to impressionism (also at first a school of painting), it designated
a style of expression closely related to the theories of Sigmund Freud
and other explorers of the subconscious or unconscious activities of
the human mind. Its advocates preached and practiced the free expression
of the artist's inward, subjective emotions and sensations through stylized—frequently
grotesque and distortedly unrealistic—scenes and characters intended
to be interpreted symbolically. The most notable German expressionist
painters, much influenced by the French postimpressionists and Fauves,
were loosely organized into two groups known as Die Brucke (the Bridge,
formed 1905) and Der blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider, formed 1911) .
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more about Expressionism...
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Featured Art Site
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