Alphonse Legros was a French painter who was a connection between French and British avant-garde artists. He was influenced by Gustave courbet in this painting. “Le Repas des Pauvres” (the meal of the poor) was painted in the realist way and took attention to poor people.
Claude Monet built a water garden in his home and started use there as a studio and there were water lilies on the pond’s surface and this scene became his principal motif of the paintings. He abstracted the lilies and used the changing light effect.
Paul Gauguin left the impressionist style and got influenced by folk and primitive art to paint this harvesting scene. He used deformed perspective and also simplified the colors.
Henri Matisse painted portraits with shadowing the one side and he used the complementary colors. This not natural usage of color is considered as a radical improvement of impressionist art.
Georges Braque painted bottle and fishes in a grid form and it is a free expression of ordinary objects.
Laszlo Moholy Nagy painted this with geometrical forms in an ordered way. It is an example of constructivism. One year later that it was painted he started to teach a course in Bauhaus in Weimar.
Van der Leck painted this after meeting Piet Mondrian as an abstract composition. Than he became one of the founders of De Stijl and had geometrical and abstract art ideas.
Salvador Dali’s this painting is a representation of the Greek myth of Narcissus. It is the first Surrealist painting that offers consistent interpretation. He suggested that as a method of irrational knowledge.
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