Industrial RevolutionEarly Modernism
Early Modernism
Tradition be damned.
Why can’t I stop painting my mother?
1882 – 1916
Portrait painter extraordinaire
1856 – 1925
Ending a friendship over diagonal lines
1883 – 1931
The truncated lives of women
1913 – 1941
Spirituality comes first, cult status second
1877 – 1943
Artist turns modernism into equal rights activism
1869 – 1944
The world isn't ready
1862 – 1944
There is no God, only Truth
1872 – 1944
How to paint music
1866 – 1944
A genius colorist fights schizophrenia
1885 – 1948
100% artist
1869 – 1954
What if you only painted bottles for your whole life?
1890 – 1964
The man who ate the world's art
1881 – 1973
The unblinking anxiety of modern life
1900 – 1984
A painter of inner and outer worlds
1887 – 1985
Eating the canvas
1909 – 1993
Sponsored by a queen
1918 – 2006
Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions.
A first encounter with any new phenomenon exercises immediately an impression on the soul.
