Unlike Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque paintings were devoid of iconological commentary and were concerned purely with pictorial space and composition. George sought after balance and harmony in his compositions, particularly through papier colles, a pasted paper collage technique that he and Pablo invented in 1912.
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Paintings Of Toulouse Lautrec And Gustave Courbet
The early Toulouse Lautrec paintings were drawn at a young age. Their favourite juvenile subject was the horse, as seen in the sketch of Two Riders on Horseback. This was probably a result of the influence from his first teacher, Rene Princeteau, a close family deaf mute friend, who painted fashionable sporting pictures.
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The bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts help Paul Gauguin paintings achieve broad success in the late 19th century. This paved the way for the Primitivism art movement. Paul Gauguin was a famed French artist who didn’t have any formal art training. Instead, he simply followed his own vision, abandoning artistic conventions.
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The Genesis scenes mounted on the Sistine chapel ceiling and the Last Judgment painting on the Sistine chapel altar wall are two of the most influential fresco works in Western art history. These works are among the Michelangelo paintings and are found in Rome, where one can find the Sistine chapel. Despite Michelangelo’s personal low opinion of painting, these works are well known all over the globe.
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Early Caravaggio paintings were paintings of flowers and fruits, including Boy Peeling a Fruit, also known to be the earliest of Caravaggio paintings, Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Young Sick Bacchus. They demonstrated physical particularity, an aspect of Caravaggio realism, for which he became famous for.
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