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This painting uses primary color to reflect emotion and sensuous expression. The artist uses short, loose brushstrokes to create his portrait. The portrait also shows the simplicity and reality of human features. This self portrait is unique in both feature and style, therefore making it extremely pleasing to the eye.

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Self-Portrait - Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) - Google Arts & Culture

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Vincent van Gogh painted his first known self-portrait in 1886, following the model of the 17th-century Dutch artist Rembrandt. But by the time he made thi...

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This painting uses the technique Pointillism. The scene reflects the "human experience" by depicting a normal day summer day in the park filled with lots of people. This is also a good piece of art. It has various colors, shapes, and a pretty scenery.

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In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte. The artist worked on the painting in several campaigns, beginning in 1884 with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors. He later added small dots, also in complementary colors, that appear as solid and luminous forms when seen from a distance.Seurat's use of this highly systematic and "scientific" technique, subsequently called Pointillism, distinguished his art from the more intuitive approach to painting used by the Impressionists. Although Seurat embraced the subject matter of modern life preferred by artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, he went beyond their concern for capturing the accidental and instantaneous qualities of light in nature. Seurat sought to evoke permanence by recalling the art of the past, especially Egyptian and Greek sculpture and even Italian Renaissance frescoes. As he explained to the French poet Gustave Kahn, "The Panathenaeans of Phidias formed a procession. I want to make modern people, in their essential traits, move about as they do on those friezes, and place them on canvases organized by harmonies of color." Some contemporary critics, however, found his figures to be less a nod to earlier art history than a commentary on the posturing and artificiality of modern Parisian society.Seurat made the final changes to La Grande Jatte in 1889. He restretched the canvas in order to add a painted border of red, orange, and blue dots that provides a visual transition between the interior of the painting and his specially designed white frame.

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte - Georges Seurat - Google Arts & Culture

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In his best-known and largest painting, Georges Seurat depicted people relaxing in a suburban park on an island in the Seine River called La Grande Jatte. The artist worked on the painting in several campaigns, beginning in 1884 with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colors.

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This painting reflects the simplicity of everyday pleasures such as being in a boat at a lake in the springtime. There are contrasting colors between the red and the blue. The picture shows everyday people boating. The medium is an oil on canvas. This is a good piece of art, and it accurately captures the artists purpose in achieving the Impressionist movement.

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Although there is no record of any paintings dated by Millares, i.e. there are no dates in the painter's catalogue raisonné, and no reference to this picture exists, Santos Torroella attributed several others on the same theme - boats and a group of women relaxing by a river - to the ten years between 1882 and 1892. The subject is typical of his period in Paris, as boating trips of this kind were not common in Catalonia, and although the artist sometimes returned to "Parisian" themes in his late-Catalonian period, the stylistic characteristics in this picture would seem to point to his central or mature period.

Gone is the thick impasto of the early days in the shadow of Martí i Alsina's realism in favour of softer, more vibrant brushstrokes, with greater detail only in faces and flesh tones to provide more realism, and even then in the foreground figures only. Personally I would situate this picture around 1888-90. Its foreign provenance, although not a conclusive factor, also supports the possibility that it was painted during the painter's Paris period.

Without a doubt this painting pays tribute to Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass" - although a quarter of a century later, when themes of this kind had become part of what in the theatrical world we might call "repertoire". Stylistically speaking it is also influenced by Impressionism: the grass, the trees, the water, the cloud-dappled sky are all the result of nervous, nimble, spontaneous brushstrokes with clean, fresh colours that do not mix. However, the very restrained, measured lines prevent any compositional chaos and the illusionist finish of the faces of the two figures to the right together with the magnificent back of the central figure confirm Miralles's much sought-after compromise with tradition. A favourite feature of the mature Millares, the parasol is particularly important here as it serves to emphasise the most outstanding figure in the composition, the red adding deeper accentuation. This is a picture which (always the case with Millares) somehow gives the impression of belonging to some great frieze or series rather than being a creation in its own right. More than a painter of unique, sublime pictures, Miralles was an artist who described different atmospheres through numerous small- and medium-sized works. His links with Adolphe Goupil, the great international art dealer who purveyed manageably-sized paintings to a large, middle-class clientele, meant that his production was intended for the market rather than for sale privately. This also checked potential excesses by the painter in his expression of realism, with the result that Miralles's pictures would always give a stylised, elegant view of reality, even in the depiction of more or less ordinary aspects of everyday life.

Francesc Fontbona

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Boating - Francesc Miralles i Galaup - Google Arts & Culture

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Although there is no record of any paintings dated by Millares, i.e. there are no dates in the painter's catalogue raisonné, and no reference to this picture exists, Santos Torroella attributed several others on the same theme - boats and a group of women relaxing by a river - to the ten years between 1882 and 1892.

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This painting represents impressionism through the plainness of the flowers, the natural lighting of the scene, and loose brush strokes. The medium is an oil on canvas. This is a good piece of art at it depicts natural beauty in everyday life.

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White Lilacs in a Crystal Vase (Lilas blancs dans un vase de cristal) - Édouard Manet - Google Arts & Culture

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Édouard Manet created flower paintings intermittently throughout his career, culminating in a group of 20 floral still lifes produced in the last year of h...