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Sandro Brotticelli

Date of Birth: May 20 1445Place of birth: Florence, ItalyDate of death: May 17 1510

Sandro Botticelli worked in Florence all his life where many ofhis works today are on display in the Uffizi museum. The onlyinterruption from his life in Florence was his short stay inRome, where he produced 3 frescoes for the Sistine Chapel.

After his training with Fr Filippo Lippi, father of Botticelli fellin with the Florentine rulers of the day - the De' Medici family.Through circles surrounding the artistic Lorenzo 'il Magnifico'he received commissions for classical works, including theBirth of Venusand Primavera(Spring). At the same time heworked on a religious body of works.

After Lorenzo's death and the De' Medici family's decline,Botticelli all but stopped producing classical works. Possiblyinfluenced by a more Puritan shift in the spirit of his times, hiswork became mostly sacred and characterized by amelancholy bordering on pathos. Botticelli died in Florence in1510.


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The Birth Of Venus

The Mystical Nativity


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Adoration Of The Magi

Primavera


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Wassily Kandinsky"The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul."

Date of Birth: December 16 1866

Place of Birth: Russian EmpireDate of Death: December 13 1944

Born in Moscow in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky took up the studyof art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawingand painting. A trained musician, Kandinsky approached colorwith a musicians sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him

to explore his own creative concepts of color on canvas, whichwere sometimes controversial among his contemporaries andcritics, but Kandinsky emerged as a respected leader of the

abstract art movement in the early 20th century.


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Flood Improv

The White Dot


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Landscape With Two

Poplars

Houses at Murnau


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Kallmunz


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Piet Mondran

Date Of Birth: March 7th1872

Place Of Birth: Amersfoort, Netherland

Date Of Death: February 1st1944

Dutch painter Piet Mondrian began his careerfirmly rooted in the representational form,

favoring naturalistic and impressionisticlandscapes. His style was influenced by Picassoand Braque as it morphed into his signature non-representational form which he termed Neo-Plasticism. It was through this form that he

became an important contributor to the De Stijl artmovement.


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Broadway Boogie Woogie

Gray Tree

Tableau I


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Farm near Duivendrecht

Still Life With Gingerpot I


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Edvard Munch

Date of Birth: December 12th1863

Place of Birth: Norway, loten

Date of Death: January 23rd 1944

Painter Edvard Munch established a free-flowing, psychological-themed styleall his own. His painting The Screamis one of the most recognizable works

in the history of art. Later works wereless intense, but his legacy was ensuredby his earlier, darker paintings. As atestament to his importance, TheScreamsold in 2012 for over

$119 million, setting a new record.

Illness,

insanity, and

death were theblack angels

that kept watch

over my cradle

and

accompaniedme all my life.

Edvard Munch


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The Scream


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Madonna

Puberty


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Edwardhopper

Date of Birth: July 22nd1882

Place of Birth: New York,

NyackDate of Death: May 15th1967

Edward Hopper trained as an illustrator, and devoted much of hisearly career to advertising and etchings. Influenced by the "AshcanSchool," Hopper began to paint the commonplaces of urban lifewith still, anonymous figures, and compositions that evoke a senseof loneliness. His famous works includeModel Reading(1925),

Room in Brooklyn(1932), and the iconicNighthawks(1942).


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Automat

Office in a small City


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Early Sunday Morning

Chop

Suey


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Nighthawks


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