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The Stone Breakers - Gustave Coubert
He reflected everyday life and the social problems of industrialization. He was one of the most important painters in the realism time. -
Angelus - Jean-François Millet
This realim picture shows a sad couple with his dead son, resting in a basket on the floor. He was very criticized for painting this work. -
Olympia - Édouard Manet
He was one of the most outstanding Impressionists painter of his time. Impressionists used a technique of loose and quick brush strokes of used many different colors. -
The Lecture - Berthe Morisot
She was one of the most popular impressionist painter. She participated in many art exhibitions in París and near the city. She painted landscapes and people in they everyday life. -
Caprice - Antoni Gaudí
Is a modernist building located in the Cantabrian town of Comillas.
This work belongs to the orientalist stage of Gaud, period in which the architect carried out a series of works of marked oriental taste. -
Starry Night - Vincent van Gogh
He was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter, author of about 900 paintings. His painting is characterized by the presence of swirls. -
The Silent Monastery - Isaak Levitán
He was a Russian painter of Jewish origin.Young Levitán received a notable influence from Corot, who knew how to move to the Russian landscape. -
The Scream - Edvard Munch
In the XIX century, European artists were influenced by Japonese and African art and figures. -
Woman Reading - Henri Matisse
He was the maximum representative of fauvisme. He also pinted with other styles such as impressionism and pointillism. This work has been versioned by other artists.
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Medea - Alfons Mucha
He was a Czech painter and decorative artist, widely recognized as one of the greatest exponents of Art Nouveau. He painted advertising posters for shops or performances.
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Clara Rilke-Westhoff - Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula was a German painter representant of the expressionist movement in her country. Most of her works are portraits, like this one of her best friend Clara. -
The Kiss - Gustav Klimt
This is one of the most famous modernist pictures. It has a decorative purpose. It's shapes are inpired in nature and the woman became a recurrent symbol. -
Abstract Speed + Sound - Giacomo Balla
His drawings were inspired by the power of machines, movement and technology as symbols of the modern world. He was one of the most important artist of the futurist style. -
Model - Liubov Popova
Constructivism was an artistic movement which arose in Russia.He did not pretend to be an artistic style but the expression of a political conviction. -
Black Square - Kazimir Malèvitx
Suprematism was an artistic tendency devised and headed by the Ukrainian painter Kazimir Malèvitx, which emerged a few years after Cubism. In this tendency, the formal elements are reduced to the triangle, the square, the cross and the circle. -
Composition - Piet Mondrian
Neoplasticism is an artistic movement started in Holland in 1917 by Piet Mondrian. It is linked to the birth of abstract art and other avant-garde movements (especially Cubism and Futurism).
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Cathedrals of Broadway - Florine Stettheimer
Dadaists artists resort to the assembly of the images to make collage. His art was ilogical and impossible to understand for the public. -
The Persistence of Memory - Salvador Dalí
He was a painter, writer and Catalan thinker, who became one of the main representatives of Surrealism. His pictorial skills are often attributed their admiration for Renaissance art.
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Guernica - Pablo Picasso
Picasso made a cubist picture expressing his vision of the bombing and called it Guernica. It has become a fundamental work to understand the history of art. -
The Birth of Day - Joan Miró
Considered one of the highest representatives of surrealism. In his work he reflected his interest in the subconscious and his country. His first works show strong Fauvist, Cubist and Expressionist influences,
