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- Café Terrace at Night
- American Gothic
- The Little Street
- Water Lilies Series
- The Hay Wain
- Christina’s World
- Bal Du Moulin de La Galette
Vincent van Gogh Where: Le Café la Nuit: Vincent van Gogh, Arles, France Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular and prolific artists of all time, though he never found fame (or money) during his short life. One of his more famous paintings, completed in his signature Post-Impressionist style, is the 1888 work Café Terrace at Night, which depic...
Grant Wood Where: The American Gothic House in Eldon, Iowa This quintessential American painting of a farmer and his daughter is one of the most parodied works of art of all time, inspiring everything from advertisements to magazine covers to cartoons. American Gothic was completed in 1930 by Grant Wood, who hailed from Eldon, Iowa. The white build...
Johannes Vermeer Where: 40–42 Vlamingstraat, Delft, Netherlands Though fewer than 40 paintings by 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer are known to exist today, the artist is regarded as one of the greatest painters of all time. One of his two surviving townscapes, 1658’s The Little Street, had its real-life setting positively identified by r...
Claude Monet Where: Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny, France The famed master painted all sorts of subjects, from the Thames in London to Rouen Cathedral in France to haystacks in the countryside, but one of his most famous motifs was the water lily. As an Impressionist, Claude Monetrevisited subjects under different light and weather conditions, ca...
John Constable Where: Willy Lott’s House, Flatford, Suffolk, England British painter John Constable was a major figure of the turn-of-the-19th-century Romantic movement, painting a number of large landscapes, including 1821’s The Hay Wain. The work, which was voted the second most popular in Britain in a 2005 poll by BBC Radio 4, shows a farmer and...
Andrew Wyeth Where: Olson House, Cushing, Maine Andrew Wyeth’s 1948 painting Christina’s Worlddepicts a woman lying in the grass looking at a farmhouse in the distance—a field stretching out before her. The subject is Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth’s neighbor in South Cushing, Maine, who suffered from a neuromuscular condition. Wyeth sought to capture...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Where: Le Moulin de la Galette, Paris, France The hilly Montmartre neighborhood of Paris has long been a haven for artistic types, and for centuries, painters have captured one of its most famous landmarks—the Moulin de la Galette, a windmill. The site has long been used as a festive gathering place, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir ...
Jul 23, 2024 · Many of the most famous paintings in history depict scenes created entirely within an artist's mind. But there are hundreds of others that were inspired by actual locations you can pinpoint in real life.
Mar 10, 2023 · Stacker curated this list of some of the world's most famous images and the fascinating stories behind them. Scroll through the list and find out which paintings scandalized Paris, were looted by the Nazis, and inspired a hit Broadway musical. You may also like: The women who have won the Nobel Prize.
Jul 14, 2024 · Today, we can see the real-life locations that inspired famous paintings side-by-side, thanks to accounts like The Cultural Tutor, who take it upon themselves to educate social media users, one X thread at a time.
Art. Meet 7 Realist Painters Who Create Impossibly Vivid Still Lifes. Here's how contemporary artists are updating the ancient techniques of realist still-life painting for the present day. by Alexandra Zagalsky.
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Oct 21, 2014 · Originally choosing four images, the pictures proved so popular with her online audience that she created another; a portrait based on Dutch artist Kees van Dongen’s The Corn Poppy (1919),...
