Masters of Modern Art






 
René Magritte

This site presents nearly 300 paintings by the famous Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte and one hundred more will be offered soon. Click on thumbnails to view medium-sized JPG-images (7-15 K). At this point browsing is a bit difficult, since all titles are listed only in French. But an English index is coming soon as well as historical background material and information about each painting.

   
The Vincent van Gogh Information Gallery

Without a doubt, this is the No.1 web site on Vincent van Gogh, presenting 900 pages and more than 1,300 paintings and sketches. You'll find: a detailed biography and chronology of his life, a gallery with a list of all paintings, a world map (explore the globe for van Gogh's paintings), a photo gallery, a detailed bibliography and many references, a FAQ and an Online Forum, recent fakes and more. David Brooks' site is a must-see!

 
   
 
Frida Kahlo

The art works of the Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, strongly influenced by her illness and disabilities, is featured here. Users will find biographical esaays (about her childhood, accident and illness, marriage) and a great number of images. The website is rounded out by many bibliographic references and links.

   
A Docent's Tour of Salvador Dali Resources

This is a very comprehensive site on Dali, I suppose the best on the web. It includes photos of Dali, many images, interpretive texts, biographical information, art-historical and geographical articles, a timeline of his life, descriptions of surrealism and Dali's different periods, his family, many paintings with really detailed background information...... a must-see for Dali- and art-fans!

 
   
 
Max Liebermann

The "real" Liebermann exhibit took place only in Cannes, France and in Wittenberg, Germany, the "Luther Town". Now it can be visited worldwide. "We tried to make a VRML-exhibition for everyone", says webmaster Martin Ebert. "But frankly spoken, there are many restrictions: a high-end PC, very fast modem or ISDN, Netscape 3.0 (32) with Life3D-Plugin." Average surfers can visit three exhibits, texts (Stefan Puck's "Between Millet and Manet, the German impressionist Max Liebermann" and two inaugural addresses) and a large number of JPG-pictures of the exhibition. We regret the csarcity of text, since for viewing pictures catalogs are much more appropriate than WWW sites.

   
Picasso Official Website

The "Official Picasso Website" offers almost 50 images of the MOMA-exhibition "Picasso and portraiture": self-portraits, women, friends; furthermore there is a (very short) introduction by Claude Picasso, as well as announcements of several current exhibitions.

 
   
 
Museo Picasso Virtual

Most certainly this is the web site with the largest selection of works by Picasso. The page "Works" offers a listing of all his works, with a tremendous number of online images. But wait, there's more: you'll find the largest biographical selection (LIFE), the most extensive bibliography (BOOKS), plus information on Movies and other news about Picasso. Enrique Mallen's site is definitely worth a visit.

   
Diego Rivera Webmuseum

This site presents Diego Rivera, Frieda Kahlo's life companion and politically engaged painter of Mexican everyday life. The museum presents a small selection of his pictures and a great number of wall paintings. Furthermore a quicktime video, his biography, links and a guest book as well as some excerpts from the journal "Mexican Folkways" (Rivera was ist editor in the twenties).

 
   
 
Keith Haring


Not only are Keith Haring T-Shirts sold online here. The site contains a great number of famous as well as unknown paintings, all of them large-sized but quick to download. And a considerable number of informative texts can be found: Highlights of the Haring Show in Milan (1984), a personal biography, excerpts from letters, exhibitions and a personal bibliography. And the background for it all is of course a Keith Haring wallpaper.

   
Christo und Jeanne-Claude

Here you can visit it once again, the top German art event of 1995: the wrapped Reichstag by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. An enormously large number of (smaller and very large) photographs document every single day of the construction from different angles. Furthermore three great works of art are presented here: "Running Fences", a work of the 70s in California, parasols installed in 1991 in Japan and the USA and a new project: "Over the River"

This German website presents exclusive documentation of the Wrapped Reichstag. The site offers a lot: photographic impressions by Wolfgang Volz of every single day of the spectacle, a recording of the German Bundestag session with speeches by famous politicians, a complete book with a great number of essays on the art event: "Art, symbolism and politics"

 
   
 
World of M.C. Escher

Here you will find an exhibition honoring the Dutch illustrator and illusionist M.C. Escher, famous for his room illusions, optical delusions and recurring geometric models. The site offers stories, famous and lessknown graphics with optical delusions and essys like: "Was Escher mathematician or artist?" or "About his never ending popularity".

   
The Greatest Painters on the Web

If you are looking for more detailed information on great painters like Chagall, Dali, Durer, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Klee, Leonardo, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Michelangelo, Miro, Monet, Picasso, Rembrandt, Renoir, Turner, van Gogh, Warhol (many more are coming up), you should visit this section of The Fine Site. You'll get a short biography, some (small) images and most of all: a collection of links to the best websites on these artists -- with up-to-date URLs!

 
   
 
Paul Gauguin

200,000 visitors have seen the exhibition about Gauguin and the Russian avant-garde in Ferrara, and more than 15,000 people have visited the web exhibit to date. Some 30 paintings, 20 drawings and several sculptures are presented at this site. All 59 thumbnails can be loaded together as a big poster. Unfortunately, explanatory text is fully lacking. But for Gauguin fans it's still a goldmine!

   
Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven

Critics of the dearth of text at the exhibit "Gauguin and the Russian avant-garde" can now get some information about Paul Gauguin at this special exhibit by Boston's Museum of Fine Art. Sixteen of the museum's 120 art works are presented here online. Brief text captions inform about the origins of this new style that came into being in a small town named Pont-Aven (Bretagne/France) and totally broke with naturalism.

 
   


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