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Claude Monet (Impressionism)
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A founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to air landscape painting.
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Vincent Van Gogh (Post-Impressionism)
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A major Post-Impressionist painter. He was a Dutch artist whose work had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art. His output includes portraits, self portraits, landscapes and still life of cypresses, wheat fields and sunflowers.
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Paul Cezanne (Post-Impressionism)
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A French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century.
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Paul Gaugin (Post-Impressionism)
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An important figure in the Symbolist movement as a painter, sculptor, print-maker, ceramist, and writer. His bold experimentation with color led directly to the Synthesist style of modern art, while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the colonist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral.
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Henri Matisse (Fauvism)
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A French artist, known for his use of color and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter. The century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture.
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Pablo Picasso
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His work is often categorised into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), theRose Period (1904–1906), the African-influenced Period (1907–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919).
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Marcel Duchamp (Dada)
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A French, naturalized American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art, although careful about his use of the term Dada and direct association with Dada groups.
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Frank Lloyd (Modern Architecture)
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An American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures, 532 of which were completed. Wright believed in designing structures that were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
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