There is perhaps no other painting that stirs the emotions of so many Americans as the American Gothic painting painted by Grant Wood in 1930. From almost its outset, the American Gothic painting raised a host of emotions from positive to negative. Grant Wood’s painting, the American Gothic, has a Carpenter Gothic Style house with…
Few painters have affected the American Modernist movement as Georgia O’Keeffe, so she is called the Mother of American Modernist Painting. Not only was she a great and prolific painter, but she has left us an amazing legacy of her artwork. Georgia O’Keeffe was a dairy farm girl from Wisconsin who became one of America’s…
When we think of Impressionist artists often, we tend to forget that besides all the male artists as Claude Monte, but there are also some very influential women impressionist artists; many of these Impressionist women artists were leading figures in the impressionist movement. The seven significant women of impressionist painters are Berthe Morisot, Mary Stevenson…
One of the most interesting stories of the Impressionist artists is the relationship of Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet and his brother Eugene Manet. All three were artists, but Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet are now considered some of the most important impressionist artists. Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, and Eugene Manet all lived in France…