"Tiger in a Tropical Storm Tiger in a Tropical Storm or Surprised! is an 1891 oil-on-canvas painting by Henri Rousseau. It was the first of the jungle paintings for which the artist is chiefly known. It shows a tiger, illuminated by a flash of lightning, preparing to pounce on its prey in the midst of a raging gale. Unable to have a painting accepted by the jury of the Académie de peinture et de sculpture, Rousseau exhibited ""Tiger in a Tropical Storm"" in 1891 under the title ""Surpris!"", at the Salon des Indépendants, which was unjuried and open to all"
"(c. 1895), in which humans are the predators; ""Jungle with Buffalo Attacked by a Tiger"" (1908); and ""Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo"" (1908). His work continued to be derided by the critics up to and after his death in 1910, but he won a following among his contemporaries: Picasso, Matisse, and Toulouse-Lautrec were all admirers of his work. Around 1908, the art dealer Ambroise Vollard purchased ""Surprised!"" and two other works from Rousseau, who had offered them at a rate considerably higher than the 190 francs he finally received. The painting was later purchased by the National Gallery,"
"Post-Impressionism Post-Impressionism (also spelled Postimpressionism) is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905, from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, Cloisonnism, Pont-Aven School, and Synthetism, along with some later Impressionists' work. The movement was led by Paul Cézanne (known as father of Post-impressionism), Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, and Georges Seurat. The term ""Post-Impressionism"" was first used by art critic Roger"
"Édouard Manet Édouard Manet (; ; ; 23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Born into an upper-class household with strong political connections, Manet rejected the future originally envisioned for him, and became engrossed in the world of painting. His early masterworks, ""The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe)"" and ""Olympia"", both 1863, caused great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today,"
"Robert Antoine Pinchon Robert Antoine Pinchon (July 1, 1886 in Rouen – January 9, 1943 in Bois-Guillaume) was a French Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (""l'École de Rouen"") who was born and spent most of his life in France. He was consistent throughout his career in his dedication to painting landscapes ""en plein air"" (i.e., outdoors). From the age of nineteen (1905 to 1907) he worked in a Fauve style but never deviated into Cubism, and, unlike others, never found that Post-Impressionism did not fulfill his artistic needs. Claude Monet referred to him as ""a surprising touch in"
"like an Egyptian obelisk"") and pines. This interest resulted in several of paintings, including ""Cypresses"", which was painted soon after van Gogh's arrival. The work was later shown at the 1890 meeting of the Salon des Indépendants in Paris. Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Cypresses is a late 19th century painting by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts a pair of cypress trees in the French countryside. The work is currently on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""Cypresses"" was painted by Vincent van Gogh while the post impressionist was a patient"
"museum. The museum is most famous for its collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist paintings, widely regarded as one of the finest collections outside of France. Highlights include more than 30 paintings by Claude Monet, including six of his ""Haystacks"" and a number of ""Water Lilies"". Also in the collection are important works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir such as ""Two Sisters (On the Terrace),"" and Gustave Caillebotte's ""Paris Street; Rainy Day."" Post-Impressionist works include Paul Cézanne's ""The Basket of Apples"", and ""Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair."" ""At the Moulin Rouge"" by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is another highlight. The pointillist masterpiece, which also"
"resigned his commission in 1866. After the Civil WarHe studied in New York City and then Paris. In Paris, he was impressed by the style of Antoine-Louis Barye, although in no sense an imitator. He made a specialty of the wild animals of the American continent. His “Fight between Buffalo and Wolves” attracted much attention at the Paris salon in 1878. Among his other important works are “Panther and Deer,” and “Coyote and Raven.” A colossal head of a buffalo for the facade of the station of the Pacific railroad at St. Louis, Missouri, which was cast in bronze in"
"Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and many modern artists, such as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. Gauguin's art became popular after his death, partially"
"(about £32). For a comprehensive list of paintings by Gauguin, see List of paintings by Paul Gauguin. Self-portraits: Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of color and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism. Toward the end of his life, he spent ten years in French Polynesia, and most of his paintings from this time depict people or landscapes from that region. His work was influential to the French avant-garde and"
"Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, were all involved in the Impressionist movement. As a direct outgrowth of Impressionism came the development of Post-Impressionism. Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat are the best known Post-Impressionists. Following the Impressionists and the Post-Impressionists came Fauvism, often considered the first ""modern"" genre of art. Just as the Impressionists revolutionized light, so did the fauvists rethink color, painting their canvases in bright, wild hues. After the Fauvists, modern art began to develop in all its forms, ranging from Expressionism, concerned with evoking emotion through objective works of art,"
"Cubist Landscape Cubist Landscape, also referred to as Tree and River and Paysage cubiste or Arbre et fleuve, is a Cubist painting created in 1914 by the French artist, theorist and writer Albert Gleizes. ""Tree and River"" is one of Gleizes' last pre-World War I landscapes. A comparison with earlier works such as ""Le Chemin, Paysage à Meudon"" (1911), ""Les Baigneuses (Gleizes)"" (1912), ""Harvest Threshing"" (1912) and ""Passy, Bridges of Paris"" (1912) demonstrates the artists' continuity with the theme of deep spatial vistas and wide panoramic views, though with a notable diminution of specific references to reality. The painting was"
"Musée d'Orsay, where the show also appeared. The exhibition, encompassing 49 of his paintings, was on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington from July 16 to October 15, 2006. A major collection of Rousseau's work was shown at the Grand Palais from March 15 to June 19, 2006. Much of the information in this article was taken from ""Henri Rousseau Jungles in Paris"", The Tate Gallery, pamphlet accompanying the 2005 exhibition. Henri Rousseau Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; May 21, 1844 – September 2, 1910) was a French post-impressionist painter in the Naïve or Primitive manner. He"
"Michael Tobias novel, ""The Adventures of Mr Marigold"" (2005). Alvaro Guillot Alvaro Guillot (1931–2010) was a French artist born in Uruguay. He was a notable exponent of the ""new surrealist school"". Guillot's post-surrealist late 20th and early 21st century acrylics and oils celebrated New Mexico landscapes, cats, horses, bovines, stunted juniper uplands, prominent green, red and yellow chili peppers, with color schemes and adroit shadows that defied all previous Western landscape artistic visions; borrowing from none, embracing something altogether new and intoxicating. There are vestiges of his early years in South America, but also the best of mid-century Paris, and"
"days later to take his body back for burial at Montpellier over a week later. Frédéric Bazille Jean Frédéric Bazille (December 6, 1841 – November 28, 1870) was a French Impressionist painter. Many of Bazille's major works are examples of figure painting in which he placed the subject figure within a landscape painted ""en plein air"". Frédéric Bazille was born in Montpellier, Hérault, Languedoc-Roussillon, France, into a wealthy Protestant family. He became interested in painting after seeing some works of Eugène Delacroix. His family agreed to let him study painting, but only if he also studied medicine. Bazille began studying"
"Bear Surprise Bear Surprise (often dubbed just ""Surprise!"") is a watercolor painting by American painter/musician John Lurie, the style of which has been described as primitivist and naïve. The painting depicts a couple having sex in a meadow, with a bear standing in front of them, with fore paws in a distinctive position. There is a speech bubble beside the head of the bear, which reads ""Surprise!"". The painting features in a popular internet meme in the Russian online culture. It has been described by Victor Sonkin in ""The Moscow Times"" as having ""gained vast popularity with the speed of"
"Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term ""Impressionism"" is derived from the title of his painting ""Impression, soleil levant"" (""Impression, Sunrise""), which was exhibited in 1874 in the first of the independent exhibitions mounted by Monet and his associates as an alternative to the Salon de Paris. Monet's ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to"
"painting for Imelda but did not have a chance to give her the money. The Philippine government seeks the return of the painting. ""Le Bassin aux Nympheas"", also known as ""Japanese Footbridge over the Water-Lily Pond at Giverny"", is part of Monet's famed Water Lilies series. Claude Monet Oscar-Claude Monet (; ; 14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a French painter, a founder of French Impressionist painting and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting. The term ""Impressionism"" is derived from"
"added depth to the museum’s 18th-century French collection. The 19th and beginning of the 20th century collection of French art also stands out. Among significant works in this collection are ""Silence"" by sculptor Auguste Preault, ""Fox in the Snow"" by Gustave Courbet (1860), ""The Seine at Lavacourt"" by Claude Monet (1880), ""I Raro te Oviri"" by Paul Gauguin (1891), ""Interior"" (1902), ""Les Marroniers ou le Vitrail"" (1894) by Édouard Vuillard, and ""The Harbor"" (""Le Port""), 1912, by Jean Metzinger. A growing collection of 19th and 20th century European paintings from Denmark, ""Fredericksborg by Moonlight"" Johan Christian Dahl, Belgium, ""Abundance"" by"
"François Xavier Joseph Jacquin François Xavier Joseph Jacquin or François Xavier Joseph Jaquin (Brussels, 1756 – Leuven, 1 November 1826) was a Flemish painter known for his portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He was in demand as a portrait painter of religious dignitaries, the nobility and the bourgeoisie. As a still life painter he created game pieces and trompe l'oeil still lifes of game birds. François Xavier Joseph Jacquin was born in Brussels. He commenced his art studies at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in 1768 and later moved to Antwerp where he trained in the workshop of Hendrik-Jozef Antonissen,"
"for highest price for a painting; surpassed only by Leonardo da Vinci's ""Salvator Mundi"" in November 2017. Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of"
"European and French art include Frans Hals' portrait ""Dorothea Berck"" (1644), Rembrandt van Rijn's painting of his son ""Titus"" (1660), Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin’s portrayal of a lovely maiden tossing a ball in ""The Game of Knucklebones"" (c. 1734), and French court portraitist Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun's exotic ""Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin"" (c. 1797). Medieval and Renaissance works include a 14th-century ""Burgundian Virgin and Child"" carved of limestone and Titian's ""Portrait of a Gentleman"" (1561). There are also late-medieval and Renaissance paintings by Giovanni Dal Ponte, Biagio D'Antonio, Sandro Botticelli and Workshop, Bernardino Luini, Francesco Ubertini, and Master of View of"
"chancellor of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture. From 1700, he worked with Coysevox at the palaces of Marly and Versailles. He was remarkable for his facility. Influenced by Michelangelo and Algardi, he tried to combine the best characteristics of each. A number of his works were destroyed during the French Revolution; the most famous of those that remain are ""La Seine at la Marne"", the ""Berger Chasseur"", and ""Daphne Pursued by Apollo"" in the gardens of the Tuileries, the bas-relief ""Le Passage du Rhin"" in the Louvre, the statues of Julius Caesar and Louis XV in the Louvre, and"
"Albert Lebourg Albert Lebourg (1 February 1849, Montfort-sur-Risle – 6 January 1928, Rouen), birth name ""Albert-Marie Lebourg"", also called ""Albert-Charles Lebourg"" and ""Charles Albert Lebourg"", was a French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscape painter of the Rouen School (""l'École de Rouen""). Member of the Société des Artistes Français, he actively worked in a luminous Impressionist style, creating more than 2,000 landscapes during his lifetime. The artist was represented by Galerie Mancini in Paris in 1896, in 1899 and 1910 by : Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, 1903 and 1906 at the Galerie Paul Rosenberg, and 1918 and 1923 at Galerie Georges Petit. Initially studying"
"l'oeil still lifes of game of the Netherlandish masters of the 17th century such as Jacob Biltius, Cornelis Biltius and Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts. Jacquin's illusionist works of birds against plain walls use natural light and shade effects together with accurate painting of the plumage to create the illusionistic effect that they are real. Jacquin also painted a few realistic street scenes. François Xavier Joseph Jacquin François Xavier Joseph Jacquin or François Xavier Joseph Jaquin (Brussels, 1756 – Leuven, 1 November 1826) was a Flemish painter known for his portraits, still lifes and landscapes. He was in demand as a portrait"
"were accepted. He was not without champions in the press, and with the title of """"le grand refusé"""" he became known through the writings of his friend Théophile Thoré, the critic who afterwards resided in England and wrote using the name Burger. During these years of artistic exile Rousseau produced some of his best pictures: ""The Chestnut Avenue"", ""The Marsh in the Landes"" (now in the Louvre), ""Hoar-Frost"" (now in America); and in 1851, after the reorganization of the Salon in 1848, he exhibited his masterpiece, ""The Edge of the Forest"" (also in the Louvre), a picture similar in treatment"
"Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral in Paris was also restored in the Gothic style, following its desecration during the French Revolution. Out of the naturalist ethic of Realism grew a major artistic movement, Impressionism. The Impressionists pioneered the use of light in painting as they attempted to capture light as seen from the human eye. Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, were all involved in the Impressionist movement. As a direct outgrowth of Impressionism came the development of Post-Impressionism. Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat are the best known Post-Impressionists. In Australia"
"Fruits on a Table Fruits on a Table or Still Life with Apples and Grapes ( ""Nature Morte a la Comptesse de N"") is a still life painting by French artist Paul Gauguin painted in 1889. It was one of two works stolen from the private collection of Terence F. Kennedy in London in June 1970 and recovered by the Carabinieri in Italy in April 2014. The painting depicts two bowls of brightly coloured apples and grapes on a fringed white linen cloth on a wooden table with a small dog sleeping on the floor in the background. It is"
"Bernard give historians a better idea of the artists lives and connection to their artwork. Émile Bernard Émile Henri Bernard (28 April 1868 – 16 April 1941) was a French Post-Impressionist painter and writer, who had artistic friendships with Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Eugène Boch, and at a later time, Paul Cézanne. Most of his notable work was accomplished at a young age, in the years 1886 through 1897. He is also associated with Cloisonnism and Synthetism, two late 19th-century art movements. Less known is Bernard's literary work, comprising plays, poetry, and art criticism as well as art"
"the empty trees above. The Forest in Winter at Sunset (painting) The Forest in Winter at Sunset is a mid-19th century oil painting by Théodore Rousseau. The painting, which depicts a forested landscape in wintertime, is currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ""The Forest in Winter at Sunset"" was painted by French painter Théodore Rousseau between 1846 and 1867. The large painting (described by one source as ""monumental"") took years for the artist to complete; it was only at the urging of friends that Rousseau finished the scene. Rousseau is widely recognized for his melancholic landscape paintings,"
"time and concerned with what was called ""post-war British art"" will remember the painting called ""A Family"".' Louis le Brocquy explains: 'I have always been fascinated by the horizontal monumentality of traditional Odalisque painting, the reclining woman depicted voluptuously by one Master after another throughout the history of European art - Titians' ""Venus of Urbino"", Velázquez' ""Rokeby Venus"" turning her back on the Spanish Court, Goya's ""Maja"" clothed and unclothed, Ingres' ""Reclining Odalisque"" in her seraglio and finally the great ""Olympia"" of Édouard Manet celebrating his favourite model, Victorine Meurent. My own painting ""A Family"" was conceived in 1950 in"
"and late 1922, are considered the height of his œuvre. Marius Borgeaud moved the following year to Audierne. Health problems overtook him there in 1924. He returned to Paris, where he died in his apartment at 43 rue Lamarck, on 16 July 1924. Most of Borgeaud's 300 existing oil paintings are landscapes and interior scenes. However, fifteen are portraits of people, the most famous being Coco Chanel. Marius Borgeaud Marius Borgeaud (21 September 1861 – 16 July 1924) was a Swiss Post-Impressionist painter. He was born in Lausanne. Borgeaud came from a bourgeois milieu; he attended the Industrial School of"
"Paul Cézanne Paul Cézanne ( or ; ; 19 January 1839 – 22 October 1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne's often repetitive, exploratory brushstrokes are highly characteristic and clearly recognizable. He used planes of colour and small brushstrokes that build up to form complex fields. The paintings convey Cézanne's intense study of his subjects. Cézanne is said to have formed the bridge between late 19th-century Impressionism and the early"