Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre1787-1851
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Jean-Francois Millet1814-1875
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Gustav Courbet1819-1877
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Rosa Bonheur1822-1899
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Jules Breton1829-1906
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Thomas Eakins1844-1916
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Édouard Manet1832-1883
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Salon de Paris1748-1890
In the 19th century the idea of a public Salon extended to an annual government-sponsored juried exhibition of new painting and sculpture, held in ...
James Whistler1834-1903
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Salon de Refusés1874-1886
As early as the 1830s, Paris art galleries had mounted small-scale, private exhibitions of works rejected by the Salon jurors. The glamorous event ...
Edgar Degas1834-1917
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Claude Monet1840-1926
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Auguste Renoir1841-1919
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Mary Cassatt1844-1926
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Odilon Redon1840-1916
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Henri Rousseau1844-1910
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Edvard Munch1863-1944
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Paul Cezanne1839-1906
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Manet and the Post-Impressionists1910-1910
The Bloomsbury Group’s most direct contribution to the change in human character that Virginia Woolf analyzes in "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" was t...
Paul Gauguin1848-1903
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Manet and Post-Impressionism1910-1910
An exhibition organized by Robert Fry who was an art critic. The show was all about the French painter Edouard Manet and his post-impressionist wor...
Vincent van Gogh1853-1890
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Georges Seurat1859-1891
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Paul Signac1863-1935
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Antoni Gaudi1852-1926
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The International Exhibition of decorative art at Turin' in Studio Vol. 27 1903-1903
The exhibition had sections of artwork from England and Germany. The exhibition consisted of works by Baumann, Jurian Kok, and Carl Spindler. It fe...
Alphonse Mucha1860-1939
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Gustav Klimt1862-1918
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Henri de Toulouse Lautrec1864-1901
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Hector Guimard1867-1942
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Aubrey Beardsley1872-1898
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Egon Schiele1890-1918
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Paul Cauchie1995-1995
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Henri Matisse1869-1954
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Georges Rouault1871-1958
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Constantin Brancusi1876-1957
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Maurice de Vlaminck1876-1958
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Raoul Dufy1877-1953
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Andre Derain1880-1954
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Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944
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Der Blaue Reiter1911-1914
Der Blaue Reiter was an expressionist art movement that originated in Germany in 1911. It was founded by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Paul Klee, ...Degenerate Art Exhibition1937-1937
Degenerate Art was the term used by Nazi's during the Nazi Regime referring to almost all modern art. This exhibition featured 650 paintings, print...
Käthe Kollwitz1867-1945
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Color Photography 1907-1907
This was the first time a quality Autochrome color plate was perfected by Auguste and Louis Lumiere. Autochrome was a process used before they inve...Emil Nolde1867-1956
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner1880-1938
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Max Pechstein1881-1955
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Oskar Kokoschka1886-1980
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Pablo Picasso1881-1973
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Synthetic Cubism1912-1914
Synthetic Cubism was a movement within the Cubist movement. It was sparked by Pablo Picasso's "Still Life With Chair Caning," and introduced collag...Salon des Indépendants of 19111911-1911
The first exhibition to show Cubist work, which was displayed in its own room, ‘Salle 41.’
Georges Braque1882-1963
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Orphism1912-1913
Orphism was an off-shoot of Cubism that combined abstraction with Fauve color. It was founded by Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia, and was featur...Paris' rue Lafitte1901-1901
This was the first major exhibition of Pablo Picasso's. It was known as a prestigious gallery at the time. A total of 75 works were displayed of hi...
Marc Chagall1887-1985
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Vorticism1914-1914
A short-lived offshoot of Cubism that was also influence by Futurism. It was named by Ezra Pound and founded by Wyndham Lewis. They held only one e...Giacomo Balla1871-1958
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Kazimir Malevich1879-1935
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The Last Futurist Exhibition 0.10 1915-1915
The 0.10 Exhibition was the first to debut Suprematist artwork. It was here that Malevich first displayed "Black Square," placing it in the corner ...
Hugo Ball1886-1927
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Salon des Indépendants 19211921-1921
The Salon des Indépendants in 1921 was the first exhibition to display Dada artwork in France.Marcel Duchamp1887-1968
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Cabaret Voltaire1916-1917
Cabaret Voltaire was a nightclub founded by Hugo Ball in 1916. It was meant to be a gathering place for artists, and was a central meeting place fo...Piet Mondrian1872-1944
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De Stijl Journal1917-1932
"De Stijl" was a journal associated with the art movement of the same name, and was published by Theo Van Doesburg, who sought to establish the de ...Theo van Doesburg1883-1931
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Vladimir Tatlin 1885-1953
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5 x 5 = 25 exhibition1921-1921
5 x 5 = 25 was a two-part exhibition held in Moscow from September to October 1921. It was here that the Constructivists declared the death of pain...
Walter Gropius1883-1969
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969
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Hannes Meyer1889-1954
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William Van Alen1883-1954
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The International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts 1924-1924
Exposition Internationale des arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes The famous World’s Fair held in Paris, was held in France from April to Oc...
Tadeusz Lucjan Gronowski1894-1975
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Tamara de Lempicka1898-1980
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Paul Klee1879-1940
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Man Ray1890-1975
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Max Ernst1891-1975
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Marianne Brandt1893-1975
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Andre Breton1896-1966
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Salvador Dali1904-1975
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Giorgio De Chirico1995-1995
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Mark Rothko1903-1970
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Willem de Kooning1904-1995
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Barnett Newman1905-1970
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Franz Kline1910-1962
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Jackson Pollock1912-1956
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