Pastellist

🇫🇷Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Art

Impressionism

1841–1919

"The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!"

Jozef Israëls

Art

Hague School

1824–1911

"Isaac and Liebermann had a lot of hassle with horses at the beach during the summer and I also got a wipe of it.."

🇫🇷André Derain

Art

cubism

1880–1954

"What, after all, is a pretty woman? It's a mere subjective impression – what you yourself think of her. That's what I paint, another kind of beauty of my own."

🇫🇷Eugène Delacroix

Art

Romanticism

1798–1863

"Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume."

🇺🇸Henry Ossawa Tanner

Art

realism

1859–1937

"It is not by accident that I have chosen to be a religious painter…I paint the things I see and believe."

🇫🇷Théophile Gautier

Literature

Romanticism

1811–1872

"The second romantics are true seers: Th. Gautier, Lec. de Lisle, Th. de Banville. But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead."

"No piece of art can depict feelings if a piece of reality is not included in it."

🇺🇸Louise Bourgeois

Art

Surrealism

1911–2010

"The feminists took me as a role model, as a mother. It bothers me. I am not interested in being a mother. I am still a girl trying to understand myself."

🇫🇷Kees van Dongen

Art

Die Brücke

1877–1968

"Life is beautiful, and this work is even more beautiful than life."

🇪🇸Joan Miró

Art

Surrealism

1893–1983

"In the current struggle I see the antiquated forces of fascism on one side, and on the other, those of the people, whose immense creative resources will give Spain a drive that will amaze the world."

🇪🇸Pablo Picasso

Art

Post-impressionism

1881–1973

"You mustn't alway believe what I say", he once told me. "Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer."

🇫🇷Jean Cocteau

Literature

theatre of the absurd

1889–1963

"Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time."

🇫🇷Jean-François Millet

Art

Realism

1814–1875

"pictures of paintings and drawings by Millet, on Wikiart"