Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 – 1919) is one of the last representatives of a tradition that runs directly from Rubens to Watteau. The French artist was a leading painter of the Impressionist art movement, famed for depicting female beauty and charming scenes. Coming from humble beginnings, he became an apprentice to a porcelain painter where he learned to copy designs and using imitation as his learning tool. After the family moved to Paris, the young Renoir had the chance to study and copy the masterpieces hanging at the Louvre. His talent allowed him to enter the famous art school Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met other emerging talents like Claude MonetFrench painter Claude Monet (1840 – 1926) was a key figure of the impressionist movement which started in the second half of the 19th century. During his long career, Monet focused on depicting leisure activities and plein air landscape painting. Born in Paris, his family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when Claude was 5 years old. From early on, and Alfred Sisley.
He was a founding member of the Impressionist movement. However, he ceased to exhibit with the group and starting in the 1880s, he developed a monumental, classically inspired style influencing many other artists like Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso (1881–1973), was a Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and resident in France from 1904. He was a dominant figure in avant-garde movements in the first half of the 20th century due to his technical versatility and prolific inventiveness. picasso-self-portrait Picasso’s progression in his early work is largely categorized by predominant colour schemes: His Blue Period (1901-1904) features motifs More.