Steven Quartly, 1971 | Impressionist palette knife painter

Steve Quartly from his studio in Southern California creates oils on canvas, specializing in Contemporary Impressionism*. Quartly’s dedication to painting the world he sees, has contributed to his vibrant works. A plain white canvas becomes a beautiful European city scene, a Mediterranean seascape or a warm California Landscape.

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"All of us have started from Cezanne" - Fernand Leger.

"When religion, science, and morality are shaken - when external supports threaten to collapse then man’s gaze turns away from the outside world towards himself" - Vasily Kandinsky.

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them" - Picasso.

"I have not painted a woman - I have painted a painting!" - Matisse.

"Painting, after all, has never been a mirror of the external world, it has never been like a photograph. It has been a creation of signs which were always rightly read by contemporaries…" - Daniel Kahnweiler.

Peter Gric, 1968 ~ Magic Realism painter

American Art History and Sitemap

Visual art of the United States or American art is visual art made in the United States or by U.S. artists.

Before colonization, there were many flourishing traditions of Native American art, and where the Spanish colonized Spanish Colonial architecture and the accompanying styles in other media were quickly in place.

Early colonial art on the East Coast initially relied on artists from Europe, with John White (1540-1593) the earliest example.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, artists primarily painted portraits, and some landscapes in a style based mainly on English painting.

Andrew Wyeth | Christina's World, 1948

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Claude Monet | Meules, 1891 | Sotheby's

"Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than (John Singer) Sargent thinks".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

"Ho avuto il solo merito di aver dipinto direttamente di fronte alla natura, cercando di rendere le mie impressioni davanti agli effetti più fuggevoli, e sono desolato di essere stato la causa del nome dato ad un gruppo, la maggior parte del quale non aveva nulla di impressionista".

- Claude Monet🎨 (1840-1926)

20th century Art History and Sitemap

Twentieth-century art - and what it became as modern art - began with modernism in the late nineteenth century.

Nineteenth-century movements of Post-Impressionism (Les Nabis), Art Nouveau and Symbolism led to the first twentieth-century art movements of Fauvism in France and Die Brücke ("The Bridge") in Germany.

Fauvism in Paris introduced heightened non-representational colour into figurative painting.

Die Brücke strove for emotional Expressionism.

Henri Matisse | Woman on a Terrace, 1907 | Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg