About Artist Art

Romantic artists J.M.W.Turner, Delacroix and Constable, Famous Impressionist artist; Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Degas. Vincent Van Gogh, features on silhouette art. Plus: Art books, Posters, DVD’s, Gallery listings.
J.M.W.Turner
The
greatest artist and how he paints. Extensive site
about Turner his art and history. The painter of
light. Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in
London, England, on April 23, 1775. His father was a barber. His mother
died when he was very young. The boy received little schooling. His
father taught him how to read, but this was the extent of his education
except for the study of art.

Vincent van Gogh

Post-Impressionist artist how to
paint like this great artist,


his art, life, portraits and
letters.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853,
in Zundert in the Brabant region of The Netherlands.
He was the eldest son of a Protestant clergyman. At
the age of 16 Van Gogh was apprenticed to art dealers
in The Hague, and he worked for them there and in
London and Paris until 1876.

Impressionist artist
French
Impressionist painting is currently the most popular
of all European bodies of art. Part of the romance of
Impressionism comes from the stories of uphill
struggles against the famous Academic painters and
critics who dominated 19th-century French art, only to
be swept into obscurity by the famous artists they had
scorned.


Silhouette art
Silhouettist Douglas Carpenter on silhouette art it’s
history with some fine examples

Silhouette took its name, from Louis XV.’s the miserly finance
minister, Etienne de Silhouette 1709-1767). Born at Limoges on July 8th, he
received as good an education as could then be obtained in a provincial
town, studying such books on finance and administration as he could
obtain.

Rembrandt first studied art in his native Leyden and
later worked under Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam. Around
1625 he returned to Leyden, but in 1631/32 he settled
permanently in Amsterdam. Although he enjoyed a great
reputation and pupils flocked to him, he suffered
financial difficulties that led to insolvency in 1656.


Paul Cézanne French
painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove
to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic
representation, personal expression, and abstract pictorial
order.


Among the artists of his time, Cézanne
perhaps has had the most profound effect on the art of the 20th century.