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**ART NOUVEAU AND POST IMPRESSIONISM**
DEFINITION OF ART NOUVEAU:A style of decoration and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized particularly by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines. DEFINITION OF POST IMPRESSIONISM:a varied development of Impressionism by a group of painters chiefly between 1880 and 1900 stressing formal structure, as with Cézanne and Seurat, or the expressive possibilities of form and color, as with Van Gogh and Gauguin.

MAJOR ARTISTS:** Paul Gauguin  ** **** Born: June 7 1848 Paris France **** Died: May 8th 1903 (aged of 54) [|Atuona], [|Marquesas Islands] , [|French Polynesia] ** Movement: [|Post-Impressionism], [|Primitivism] Paul Gaugin **Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin** (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a leading Post-Impressionist painter. His bold experimentation with coloring led directly to the Synthetist style of modern art while his expression of the inherent meaning of the subjects in his paintings, under the influence of the cloisonnist style, paved the way to Primitivism and the return to the pastoral. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms. Paul Gauguin was born in Paris, France to journalist Clovis Gauguin and half-Peruvian Aline Maria Chazal, the daughter of proto-socialist leader Flora Tristan. In 1851 the family left Paris for Peru, motivated by the political climate of the period. Clovis died on the voyage, leaving three-year old Paul, his mother and his sister to fend for themselves. They lived for four years in Lima, Peru with Paul's uncle and his family. The imagery of Peru would later influence Paul in his art.
 * Birth name: Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin
 * Field: Painting, Engraving **

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P aul Cézanne was a French painter, often called the father of modern art, who strove to develop an ideal synthesis of naturalistic representation, personal expression, and abstract pictorial order.

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Gustav Klimt- Art NouveauOphelia baby(cradle)

, our own century. Leonard Norman Gustav Klimt was born July 14, 1862 in Baumgarten, a Viennese suburb. His father, an immigrant from Bohemia, failed in his occupation as a gold engraver, and his children were raised in utter poverty. When he was just 14, Gustav quit school, but managed to enroll at a local college of art and craft. He was so talented, he began earning a living off commissions while still at school. He formed a partnership with his brother Ernst and another student, Franz Matsch. Klimt-Matsch & Co. were getting rich on commissions for the new buildings going up in the 1890's. But in 1897 Klimt took part in the Secession Movement-a rebellion against the established art world-a breakaway group of successful artists who wanted to create work in modern and adventurous styles. Klimt paints a devastating vision of the human condition at the turn of the last century, replete with pain, sex and death. His work drew a storm of criticism. Fortunately, though he lost all of the official commissions for mural painting, he was in great demand as a portraitist, and always made a comfortable living. Klimt was hardly a rebel. He hated publicity, preferring a routine of hard work, and closely guarded privacy. The story of Gustav Klimt is his development as an artist. His work was wholly, and oddly, uninfluenced by the bizzare conditions of World War One. In 1918, Gustav Klimt suffered a stroke that left his whole right side paralyzed. His hope for recovery faded as pneumonia took him. Gustav Klimt died on the 6th of February 1918, just a few months prior to the complete collapse of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, and the entire world he had known. Gustav Klimt is a precursor to Nouveau, and German Expressionism. His work clearly influenced artists like Modigliani and Brancusi. His style is eloquent, his color incredible. The emotion he evokes is often bitter, and slightly sinister. Certainly an interesting artist to study from the turn of the last century, as we advance to the turning of this, our own century. Leonard Norman SoHo ART

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Paul Cezanne

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born on Nov. 24, 1864, in Albi, France By the time he was 10 he had begun to draw and paint At 12 young Toulouse-Lautrec broke his left leg and at 14 his right leg. He loved to paint. Circuses, dance halls, and nightclubs. He would sit at a crowded nightclub table, laughing and drinking, and at the same time he would make swift sketches.

  //In Bed//, 1893   La Toilette http://www.sdmart.org/lautrec/lautrec.html

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Atist Name: Vincent VanGogh Born:March 30, 1853 Died: July 29 1890 Vincent van Gogh is a dutch post-impressionist painter born in southern Netherlands Van Gogh was the son of Anna Cornelia Carbentus and Theodorus van Gogh. Van Gogh spent his early adult life working for a firm of art dealers. After a brief spell as a teacher, he became a missionary worker in a very poor mining region. He did not embark upon a career as an artist until 1880. Initially, Van Gogh worked only with sombre colours, until he encountered Impressionism and Neo-Impressionism in Paris. He incorporated their brighter colours and style of painting into a uniquely recognizable style, which was fully developed during the time he spent at Arles, France. He produced more than 2,000 works, including around 900 paintings and 1,100 drawings and sketches, during the last ten years of his life. Most of his best-known works were produced in the final two years of his life, during which time he cut off part of his left ear following a breakdown in his friendship with Paul Gauguin. After this he suffered recurrent bouts of mental illness, which led to his suicide. The central figure in Van Gogh's life was his brother Theo, who continually and selflessly provided financial support. Their lifelong friendship is documented in numerous letters they exchanged from August 1872 onwards. Van Gogh is a pioneer of what came to be known as //Expressionism//. He had an enormous influence on 20th century art, especially on the Fauves and German Expressionists.

Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night" currently resides in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City.

Van Gogh has painted oher similar scenes to Starry Night Such as Starry Night Over the Rhone

Van Gogh is also known for painting beautiful outdoor nature scenes such as "Cherry Tree"

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