Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre1787-1851

Jean-Francois Millet1814-1875

Gustav Courbet1819-1877

Rosa Bonheur1822-1899

Jules Breton1829-1906

Thomas Eakins1844-1916

Édouard Manet1832-1883

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

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

Claude Monet1840-1926

Auguste Renoir1841-1919

Mary Cassatt1844-1926

Odilon Redon1840-1916

Henri Rousseau1844-1910

Edvard Munch1863-1944

Paul Cezanne1839-1906

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

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

Georges Seurat1859-1891

Paul Signac1863-1935

Antoni Gaudi1852-1926

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

Gustav Klimt1862-1918

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec1864-1901

Hector Guimard1867-1942

Aubrey Beardsley1872-1898

Egon Schiele1890-1918

Paul Cauchie1995-1995

Henri Matisse1869-1954

Georges Rouault1871-1958

Constantin Brancusi1876-1957

Maurice de Vlaminck1876-1958

Raoul Dufy1877-1953

Andre Derain1880-1954

Wassily Kandinsky1866-1944

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

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

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner1880-1938

Max Pechstein1881-1955

Oskar Kokoschka1886-1980

Pablo Picasso1881-1973

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

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

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

Kazimir Malevich1879-1935

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

Salon des Indépendants 19211921-1921
The Salon des Indépendants in 1921 was the first exhibition to display Dada artwork in France.Marcel Duchamp1887-1968

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

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

Vladimir Tatlin 1885-1953

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

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe1886-1969

Hannes Meyer1889-1954

William Van Alen1883-1954

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

Tamara de Lempicka1898-1980

Paul Klee1879-1940

Man Ray1890-1975

Max Ernst1891-1975

Marianne Brandt1893-1975

Andre Breton1896-1966

Salvador Dali1904-1975

Giorgio De Chirico1995-1995

Mark Rothko1903-1970

Willem de Kooning1904-1995

Barnett Newman1905-1970

Franz Kline1910-1962

Jackson Pollock1912-1956
