Edouard Manet First at modern-life subjects. Realism to Impressionism.
Claude Monet Founder on French Impressionism. Includes relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities
Edgar Degas Another founder of Impressionism, although preferred to be called realist.
Pierre-Auguste Renior Leading Impressionist painter.
Mary Cassatt Impressionist. Women and child.
Paul Cézanne Post-impressionist. Repetitive brushstrokes.
Henri Rousseau French Post-Impressionist. Primitive or “naive” style.
Paul Gauguin Post-impressionist. Experimental colors
Vincent Van Gogh Rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color. Post-impressionist.
Georges Seurat Post-impressionist. Inventor of pointalism.
Camille Pissarro Impressionist / Neo-Impressionist. Pointillism and tiny brush stokes.
Gustav Klimt Austrian symbolist painter. Ornamental style.
Edvard Munch Incorporated psychological themes built upon symbolism and German Expressionism.
Henri Matisse Fauvism- Emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
Georgia O’Keefe Enlarged blossoming flowers.
Frida Khalo Self portraits and symbolism.