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Happy Birthday… Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne, born on 19th january 1839 in France, is seen as an important forerunner of Modernism due to its varied artworks. In his own time, people did not like his art very much, he experienced refusal and often sarcasm. An individual exhibition in 1895 changed this and more people started to think about and
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Happy Birthday… Edward Hopper!
Edward Hopper was born on 22nd july in 1882 in Nyack/New York. From the age of 18 he studied design and painting in New York and travelled Europe the following years. Already during his last years of study he worked as a illustrator for different advertising agencies – a work which he did for more
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Edvard Munch and The Adventure of Reality
Yesterday I visited the Edvard Munch exhibition in the museum Kunsthal in Rotterdam and later The Adventure of Reality at the same place, an exhibition of international realists. Edvard Munch The exhibition encompasses are wide range of Munch’s work, including several of his drawings, and gives a nice insight into his development as artist. Personally
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