Russian Symbolist Painter, 1856-1910
Russian painter and draughtsman. He was a pioneer of modernism, and his highly innovative technique broke with the traditions of the Academy of Arts in St Petersburg, where he had been a brilliant student; at the same time he felt dissociated from the social consciousness of The Wanderers. Related Paintings of Mikhail Vrubel :. | Hamlet and Ophelia | Warrior | Orchid | Hamlet and Operlia | Head of the Demon | Related Artists:
Pippin, HoraceAmerican, 1888-1946
.U.S. folk painter. Pippin served in the infantry in World War I, but he was wounded in 1918 and discharged with a partially paralyzed right arm. His first large canvas was an eloquent protest against war, End of the War: Starting Home (1931 ?C 34). His primary theme became the African American experience, as seen in his series entitled Cabin in the Cotton (mid 1930s) and his paintings of episodes in the lives of the antislavery leader John Brown and Pres. Abraham Lincoln. After the art world discovered Pippin in 1937,
Meszoly, GezaHungarian Painter, 1844-1887
cesar franckFor playwright Frances Burney (1776 C 1828), niece of novelist Fanny Burney Madame d'Arblay 1752-1840, see Frances Burney (1776?C1828)