1-Modern Art 1

Name: - A Sunday Afternoon on the Island

of La Grande Jatte
Era: - Modern art
Artist: - Georges Seurat
The material: - oil on canvas
Date: - 1884–86
Brief: - it is one of the most remarkable
paintings of the nineteenth century, the
artist tackled the issues of color, light, and
form. Inspired by research in optical and
color theory, he juxtaposed tiny dabs of
colors that, through optical blending, form
a single and, he believed, more brilliantly luminous hue.

Name: - La Danse (Bacchante)

Era: - Modern art
Artist: - Jean Metzinger
The material: - oil on canvas
Date: - 1906
Brief: - Bacchante is een pre- kubistische of Proto-
kubistische werken uitgevoerd in een zeer
persoonlijke Klasser stijl tijdens het hoogtepunt
van de Fauve periode.
 Name: - The Seamstress
Era: - Modern art
Artist: - Édouard Vuillard
The material: - Oil painting on board
Date: - 1893
Brief: - The subject of a woman sewing comes directly
from Edouard Vuillard's own experience in his
mother's dressmaking shop where, as a youth, he
watched his sister work. In this painting, a seamstress
is hunched over her handiwork in quiet
concentration, and is surrounded by a profusion of
colorful and decorative materials. Placing great
emphasis on the composition of the portrayed items,
Vuillard flattened out the forms so that they interlock
and produce strong patterns.

2-Modern Art 2

Name: - The Olive tree near l'Estaque.

Era: - Modern art 2
Artist: - Georges Braque
The material: - oil in canvas
Date: - 1906
Brief: - Georges Braque's painting shows him
under the influence of Matisse and the so-called
"wild beasts" or Fauves, whose release of savage
color was the revolutionary artistic discovery of
the mid-1900s.
 Name: - improvisation 27 (Garden of Love II)
Era: - Modern art 2
Artist: - Wassily Kandinsky
The material: - oil on canvas
Date: - 1912
Brief: - by using abstract forms and color
symbolism to evoke an inner, preconscious
world. Composed of dark lines and abstract
colorful masses, Improvisation 27 depicts
three iterations of an embracing couple
surrounded by serpentine forms. Kandinsky
hints at the painting’s possible subject in the
subtitle "Garden of Love II," likely a reference
to biblical Eden.

Name: - Woman with a Hat

Era: - Modern art 2
Artist: - Henri Matisse
The material: - Oil on canvas
Date: - 1905
Brief: - The painting was criticized for usage of multiple non-
natural colors to depict woman’s face that gave it a mask-like
appearance. Matisse’s Woman with a Hat combines
pointillist color with post impressionistic technique. Woman
with a Hat was a revolutionary piece of artwork as it
challenged the way art was viewed by the critics and the
viewers.