Expressive Artists Revision Notes
Paul Cezanne
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19 January 1839, Aix-en-Provence, France
22 October 1906 (aged 67) Aix-en-Provence, France
French
Academie Suisse/ Aix-Marseille Univeristy
Painting. Despite the disapproval of his father, who was a banker,
Cezanne decided pursue a career as an artist and left Aix for Paris in 1861.
 The Card Players, a painting by Cezanne as part of a series of the same
name in the later 1980’s was sold in 2011 to the Royal Family of Qatar
for a price variously estimated at between $250 million and $300
million. Which means are present it is the most expensive artwork
ever sold.
 Credited with bridging Impressionism and Cubism.
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Post Impressionism
Lots of small brushstrokes, close together. Slightly exaggerated geometric
shapes in some works. Outline appears some works. Often uses
complimentary colours to create depth of tone in his paintings.
Camille Pissarro
Cubism: Matisse/Picasso reportedly said “Cezanne is the father of us all”
Georges Seurat
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2 December 1859, Paris, France
Paris, France
French
Ecole Municipale de Sculpture et Dessin/ École des Beaux-Arts
painting
Creator of Pointilism
29 March 1891 (aged 31)
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Post Impressionism, Neo Impressionism, Pointillism
Known for his dotted pointillism paintings.
Eugène Delacroix (romanticist) and the science writer Michel Eugène
Chevreul who was a chemist who restored tapestries Chevreul discovered
that two colours juxtaposed, slightly overlapping or very close together,
would have the effect of another colour when seen from a distance. The
discovery of this phenomenon became the basis for the pointillist
technique of the Neo-impressionist painters.
Cubism
Henri Matisse
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31 December 1869, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord
3 November 1954(aged 84) Nice, Alpes-Maritimes
French
Académie Julian and became a student of William-Adolphe Bourguereau
and Gustave Moreau.
Matisse learned a lot about painting by immersing himself in the work of
others and got into debt buying work from painters he admired.
Painting, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, collage
 His work, which spanned over half a century, won him recognition as a
leading figure in modern art.
 Leader of the Fauves (1904-08) movement with André Derain.
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Best known in the Fauves movement(wild beast)
Flat colour, often clashing (dissonant), flat and odd perspectives. Often
uses line instead of tone to describe form.
Early maters including Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and Nicolas Poussin,
as well as by modern artists, such as Édouard Manet, and by Japanese art.
Visible similarities to the work of Cezanne and Gauguin in some of his still
life and a freer style of Pointillism in his landscapes.
Vincent Van Gogh
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30 March 1853 Zundert, Netherlands
29 July 1890 (aged 37) Auvers-sur-Oise, France
Dutch
Van Gogh had no real formal art education but worked under and
alongside many artists of the time, aiding his development as a painter.
Started his working life as an art dealer and briefly as a missionary, but
then perused his career as a full time artist, drawing and painting to make
a living.
One of the most celebrated and famous artists of all time. Although most
of his success was Posthumous (after death). He lived much of his life as a
poor man, battling mental illness.
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Post Impressionism – leading into Expressionism
Textured painting/ loose connections to pointillism regarding mark
making.
Anton Mauve (realism movement) Paul Gauguin
The Expressionism movement and artists such as Francis Bacon. But also
more modern artists such as Willem de Kooning, Howard Hodgkin,
and Jackson Pollock due to both his mark making and
emotional/expressive studies. The Abstract Expressionism of the 1940s
and 1950s is seen as in part inspired from Van Gogh's broad, gestural
brush strokes.