...this month's featured artist is: Munch

Edvard Munch is considered as one of the major symbolist painters, forerunner of the expressionist movement. "I don't paint what i see, but what i've seen" he said, to underline his distance from the (post)impressionism. Munch is interested in showing what happens inside his head, how his unrational side takes over the rational one and modifies the reality perceived... Read more >>.

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Dalì

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Kandinsky

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Monet 2/2

Monet was a pure impressionist, a real master of the style, entirely focusing his attention on the colours and light effects of the landscapes that he used to paint en plain air.

He...

Romanticism

Friedrich probably was the most influencial (and important) painter of the Romantic movement. His works are known for the contemplative and allegoric view of nature which - for the first time in the history of art - becomes the main character of a picture.

Landscape is not only the background of religious and mythological events (as it was until the 18th century), nor a simple visive show, but a source of ispiration and suggetions. Man and nature aren't two separate worlds anymore: the former can recognize himself in the latter, and discover a bit more about himself by feeling the emotions which a natural sight can bring.

William Turner has always been interested in the relationship between men and nature, and the resulting sese of energy and terror felt by te former in front of the unleashed force of the elements (what the romantics used to call 'sublime').

Tempestuos seas, shipwrecks and typhoons are some of his main themes, where nature is hostile and overwhelming.