Trivium Art History
Amrita Sher-Gil —A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism1913 — 1941
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1901
Gordon Parks
Agnes Martin
Amrita Sher-Gil
Ad Reinhardt
Méret Oppenheim
2000
Modern Day Polymath
An essay on inwardness and silence
"Art-as-art and nothing else"
"X = an Orange Rabbit"
The artists of Post-Impressionism
Paul Cézanne — A lifelong struggle to capture the intensity of life
1839-1906Vincent Van Gogh — Eloquent writer forges new path in painting
1853-1890Paul Gauguin — In search of a lost paradise
1848-1903Georges Seurat — A super-craftsman uses color to manipulate our emotions.
1859-1891Henri Rousseau — Painting dreams with a child's brush
1844-1910Suzanne Valadon — Provocative model becomes a transgressive artist
1865-1938Emily Carr — Hard-smoking woman documents Canada's native people
1871-1945James McNeill Whistler — A lesson in making enemies
1834-1903Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec — Too many prostitutes and too much absinth
1864-1901Amrita Sher-Gil — A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism
1913-1941Pierre Bonnard — All in with color
1867-1947Pablo Picasso — The man who ate the world's art
1881-1973Élisabeth Chaplin — A life's worth of paintings dedicated to Florence
1890-1982Ásgrímur Jónsson — Grand Knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon
1876-1958Grégoire Michonze — No story. Pure poetry.
1902-1982The artists of Early Modernism
Umberto Boccioni — Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882-1916Piet Mondrian — There is no God — only Truth
1872-1944Henri Matisse — 100% artist
1869-1954Marc Chagall — A painter of inner and outer worlds
1887-1985Giorgio Morandi — What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890-1964Hilma af Klint — The world isn't ready
1862-1944Wassily Kandinsky — How to paint music
1866-1944Anne Goldthwaite — Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism
1869-1944Amrita Sher-Gil — A woman brings Indian tradition into modernism
1913-1941Sigrid Hjertén — A genius colorist fights schizophrenia
1885-1948Theo van Doesburg — Ending a friendship over diagonal lines
1883-1931Pablo Picasso — The man who ate the world's art
1881-1973Alice Neel — The unblinking anxiety of modern life
1900-1984John Singer Sargent — Portrait Painter Extraordinaire
Marsden Hartley — Spirituality comes first, cult status second
1877-1943Ibrahim Kodra — Sponsored by a queen
1918-2006