Claude Monet (1840-1926) First, there’s Monet, with his “Impression, Sunrise” hanging on the wall, the painting that, through Louis Leroy, made him a young “Impressionist painter.” […]

  Paul Gauguin (1839-1906) As one of the five attributes of T.F., Chan’s “new hieroglyphs” are quotation, appropriation, imitation, unity of time and space, and ideal […]

Georges Braque (1882-1963) In 1907, the 24-year-old Georges Braque arrived in Paris and took six landscape paintings at the l’Estaque, which were exhibited at the Salon […]

Auguste Renoir When Renoir was invited to join the Van Gogh Art Club, he brought two models to dance before him to complete “Village Dance” (1883). […]

Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) In French art, a trend towards de-rationalism and logic, a mystical, religious, paradoxical, and eroticism emerged in the German and Australian art worlds […]

Georges Seurat (1859-1891) Before departing for Arles, Vincent van Gogh and his brother Théo visited Seurat’s studio to learn more about the Neo-Impressionist works, which were […]

Durouse Loutrec (1864-1901) Having met Loutrec in Paris, Van Gogh was advised to visit the south of France, and in turn, Loutrec was invited to join […]

Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) Piet Mondrian’s artistic qualities embody the pursuit of the “absolute” through the continuous development of relativity. Born in the Netherlands, Mondrian led a […]