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Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in the Netherlands, and died in 1890. Van Gogh started painting seriously only in the last decade of his life, but produced a prolific body of work nonetheless (with some 90 paintings done in the last two months of his life). Van Gogh was initially influenced by the painters of the Barbizon School, especially Jean-Francois Millet, and later by the Neo-Impressionist (or Pointillist) paintings of Paul Signac, before going on to develop his more mature expressionistic style and become the principal figure in the Post-Impressionism art movement. [More...]

Paul Gauguin was born in 1848 in Paris, France, and died in 1903. After serving in the French merchant marines and navy, he worked in a brokerage, while painting on the weekends, often with Camille Pissarro (who he'd met through his guardian) and Paul Cezanne. Leaving his family in Copenhagen (where his wife had family), he returned to Paris to paint full-time. Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh were friends and spent nine weeks painting together in Arles in 1890, until Van Gogh went mad and had to be hospitalized in a mental hospital. In 1891 Gauguin sailed to Tahiti, where, attracted by the innocence and naturalness of the native inhabitants, he was to paint many of his most famous paintings. [More...]

Paul Cezanne was born in 1839 in Aix-en-Provence, France, and died in 1906. He was more of the age of the generation of Impressionist painters, but was always out of step with them. He quit exhibiting with the Impressionists, after exhibiting with them every year up to 1878, which is taken by some to signal a break with them. Regardless, his mature style of painting only began to emerge at that point and through the 1880's and 1890's. While Cezanne painted with and visited, and was visited by, many of the most famous Impressionists, including Pissarro, Renoir, and Monet, his mature work, which in its turn influenced the greatest artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso, stands alone in its originality. [More...]

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was born in 1864 in the Midi-Pyrenees region of France, and died in 1901. Because of a genetic disorder, his legs failed to grow, although his trunk was of normal proportions. His paintings and poster designs depict the Parisian bohemian life of the 1880's and 1890's in the cabarets, theatres, and brothels of Montmarte (where he lived), such as the Moulin Rouge. While studying painting in Paris in 1882, Toulouse-Lautrec met Emile Bernard and Vincent Van Gogh. Although he was a very fine painter, today he's best known for the lithographic posters created for many of the same Montmarte establishments, actors, and entertainers he patronized. He was particularly influenced by the Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printers, who were very fashionable in Paris at the time. Toulouse-Lautrec died young, at 36, from complications due to drinking and syphilis. [More...]