Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Wilder Westen

Completed in February 1911, New York is a large, ambitious painting in which George Bellows captured the essence of modern life in New York City. Bellows did not intend to represent a specific, identifiable place in the city. He instead drew on several bustling commercial districts to create an imaginary composite, an impossibly crowded image that would best convey a sense of the city’s frenetic pace.
CHARLES BROCK: What I love about it is its wild ambition.

If, as Oscar Wilde remarked, every great portrait is a picture of the artist, this

Introduced to painting while recovering from appendicitis at age 19, Henri Matisse abandoned his job as a law clerk to compose conventional Dutch-inspired still lifes and interiors using a somber palette. After moving from northern France to Paris in 1891, his colors brightened and his style evolved under the influence of Paul Cézanne , Paul Gauguin , and others.
This experimentation—dubbed fauvism (from “wild beasts”)—was a brief but crucial

A painting may provide a “window” into a different world. Here, the painting is itself a window, and it reveals a world dizzy with color and movement.
the early 20th century, and its creator, Henri Matisse, was dubbed a fauve, or wild

Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast. His acquaintance with the islands was due to his poet friend Celia Thaxter, whose house on Appledore Island was a summer mecca for writers, painters, illustrators, musicians, and other artistic visitors.
Here, only a passing sailboat hints that we are not in some pristine, wild environment

Today, Henri Matisse’s Open Window, Collioure may appear gentle and lyrical, but originally its thick brushstrokes and intense colors were seen as violent. A small but explosive work, this icon of early modernism is celebrated as one of the most important paintings of the fauve school, a group of artists who focused on freeing color and texture from strict representations of natural appearance. Open Window, Collioure represents the beginning of this new approach in Matisse’s art.
d’Automne, where one critic dismissed him—and some of his peers—as fauves, or “wild

Artist Saturday, May 17 2025 | 1:00 – 2:00pm Films Films:  Wisdom Gone Wild

six-painting series at Lake George: In the woods near two large spring houses, wild

six-painting series at Lake George: In the woods near two large spring houses, wild

six-painting series at Lake George: In the woods near two large spring houses, wild