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Modern Art Overview

  • Title: Modern Art

  • Author: George Baker

Key Artworks and Artists

18th Century Art

  • Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    • Artwork: The Swing (1767)

  • Jacques-Louis David

    • Artwork: The Oath of the Horatii (1784)

  • Jacques-Louis David

    • Artwork: Death of Marat (1793)

    • Notable figure: Marat

19th Century Art

  • Francisco Goya

    • Artwork: The Third of May (1808, completed in 1814)

  • Théodore Géricault

    • Artwork: The Raft of the Medusa (1818-1819)

  • Gustave Courbet

    • Artwork: The Stone Breakers (1849)

    • Artwork: A Burial at Ornans (1849-1850)

    • Artwork: The Painter’s Studio (1855)

  • Thomas Couture

    • Artwork: The Romans of the Decadence (1847)

Impressionism

  • Édouard Manet

    • Artwork: Music in the Tuileries (1862)

    • Artwork: The Old Musician (1862)

    • Artwork: Luncheon on the Grass (1863)

    • Artwork: Olympia (1863)

    • Artwork: Laure (1862-1863)

    • Artwork: The Execution of Maximilian (1867, First Version)

    • Artwork: The Execution of Maximilian (1868-1869, Third Version)

  • Claude Monet

    • Artwork: Impression, Sunrise (1872)

    • Artwork: Women in the Garden (1867)

    • Artwork: Terrace at Sainte-Adresse (1867)

    • Artwork: Boulevard des Capucines (1873)

    • Artwork: Haystack at Sunset (1891)

    • Artwork: Rouen Cathedral at Dawn (1894)

    • Artwork: Water Lilies (The Cloud) (1903)

Late 19th Century Art

  • Edgar Degas

    • Artwork: Place de la Concorde (1875)

    • Artwork: The Laundresses (1884)

    • Artwork: Absinthe (1876)

  • Gustave Caillebotte

    • Artwork: Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877)

    • Artwork: On The Europe Bridge (1876-77)

Post-Impressionism

  • Paul Gauguin

    • Artwork: The Vision After the Sermon (1888)

    • Artwork: The Yellow Christ (1889)

    • Artwork: Self-Portrait (Les Misérables) (1888)

    • Artwork: Exotic Eve (1890)

    • Artwork: Ta Matete (1892)

    • Artwork: Spirit of the Dead Watching (1892)

    • Artwork: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? (1897)

  • Vincent Van Gogh

    • Artwork: Self-Portrait (To My Friend Paul Gauguin) (1888)

    • Artwork: The Night Café (1888)

    • Artwork: Van Gogh's Chair (1888)

    • Artwork: Gauguin's Chair (1888)

    • Artwork: The Starry Night (1889)

    • Artwork: The Sower (with Setting Sun) (1888)

    • Artwork: Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

CÉZANNE AND LATER

  • Paul Cézanne

    • Artwork: House of the Hanged Man (1872-73)

    • Artwork: Still-Life with Plaster Cast (1894)

    • Artwork: Gulf of Marseille Seen From L'Estaque (c. 1886)

    • Artwork: The Basket of Apples (1890-94)

    • Artwork: Mont Sainte-Victoire (1885-95)

    • Artwork: Bather with Outstretched Arms (1877-78)

    • Artwork: Bathers at Rest (1875-77)

    • Artwork: Large Bathers (1898-1906) (Philadelphia Museum of Art)

  • The content comprises key insights into Modern Art through various significant artists and their notable works spanning 1767 to the late 19th century.