Flinck, Govert (1615-1660) Self Portrait aged 24 1639 Oil on oak, 65.8 × 54.4 cm National Gallery, London Rembrandt was an exacting teacher as well as a great artist – at least, he knew how to school the apprentices who came…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Windmill c.1917 Oil on canvas, 100.33 × 95.25 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Even in his own lifetime, Piet Mondrian was lauded as the founder of the most modern, avant-garde art movement of the 20th century. Nevertheless, before…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Apple Tree, Pointillist Version 1908–1909 Oil on composition board, 56.83 × 74.93 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas This tree is composed of radiating branches of intense color and slashing lines. For Mondrian, the precise depiction of a specific…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Young Tree Grove Amidst Water Reflections 1902–1905 Watercolor on paper, 30.321 x 39.7 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Composition with Large Blue Plane, Red, Black, Yellow, and Gray 1921 Oil on canvas, 60.33 × 49.85 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Mondrian‘s mature works embody his search for the visual expression of universal principles. He went from…
Mondrian, Piet (1872-1944) Place de la Concorde 1938–1943 Oil on canvas, 94.62 x 94.62 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas The horizontal and vertical black stripes and blocks of yellow, blue, and red against a white background create an active pattern of…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Everyday life Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir is one of the central figures of impressionism. But while Monet prefers to paint…
Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (1836-1912) Roman potter c.1884 Oil on canvas, 152 x 80 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Fragment of the painting “Hadrian visiting a Roman-British pottery”, painted in 1884 and cut out by the artist in 1893. The other two fragments of…
Hals, Frans (c.1582-1666) Portrait of a Man Holding a Watch 1643 Oil on canvas, 82.6 x 66.7 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia For a long time the identity of this bearded man was unknown. Recent scholarship reveals that it is very likely…
Ruskin, John (1819-1900) Head of lake of Geneva s.d. Pen, ink and brush on paper, 23.4 x 39.8 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam