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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: The performances of Parisian nightlife
Known for his posters for cabarets and performances, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was the painter of Parisian nightlife par excellence. Completely immerged in the bohemian milieu of the period, he produced numerous paintings and lithographs representing the lower levels of society.
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Beauty of The Viennese Secession through Gustav Klimt’s eyes
“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems aeons away from the harsh, post-modern environment we live in now.
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Egon Schiele – One of the great Expressionist painters
Egon Schiele's roots were in the Jugendstil of the Viennese Secession movement. Like a whole generation, he came under the overwhelming influence of Vienna’s most charismatic and celebrated artist, Gustav Klimt.
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Spotlight on Marc Chagall
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Spotlight on Chaïm Soutine
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art.
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Bauhaus
The Bauhaus was founded in 1919 to explore new aesthetic perspectives and creative teaching programmes for the education of architects, designers and artists for a post-war democratic society.
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KLEE: A Contrapunctal (e) Motion
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Edvard Munch: The black tears of Krakatoa (1883)
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Franz Marc: War Crime: The Assassinated Painter
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