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French painter regarded as the most influential painter in Paris and the most important artist of the century.   The Leader of the Fauvist Movement, the Master of color.   Color was the dominant force throughout Matisse's artistic career covering many varied styles from Impressionism to Abstract and ranking him, alongside Picasso, as one of the leading artists of our century.  

English artist who graduated in Fine-Art from Brighton University.   After an initial period working in Graphic Design for the British Broadcasting Corporation Paula left for the USA where she has rapidly established herself as an outstanding artist with her highly individualistic style transposing the images of her mind and her dreams onto those of real life to create decidedly unique scenes from village life.      

Full time American artist since 1972, McKnight's brilliant use of color in a highly individual, simplistic, style creates images which are acclaimed by professionals and non-professionals alike.    Drawing on personal experiences and visits mainly to Greece and Japan  his landscapes, cityscapes and interiors are much sought after and are now permanently displayed at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institute as well as in his own gallery at Litchfield, Connecticut.   Six books, including 2 in Japanese, have been devoted to his work.

A French Impressionist artist whose dedication to the study of light, tone and color and their relationship resulted in world acclaim.    Educated at Le Havre where he met Boudin who encouraged him to paint nature on the spot.   A practice which is evident  much later in his career years when his own garden was to afford him subjects, particularly the "Nymphéas" (Water Lillies).    In the late 1860s, working with Renoir, they produced the 1st pure Impressionist paintings.   During the 1870s he worked closely with Manet, Morisot, Renoir and Sisley but his first big public success was not to come until 1889 at an exhibition he shared with Rodin.

A German artist who studied at the Munich Art Academy and co-founded "Der Blaue Reiter" with Kandinsky whose work and life was tragically cut short when he was killed whilst serving for his country in the First World War.    In his short career he was to establish himself as  a pioneer in the birth of abstract art and produced many brilliant examples of paintings of the Expressionist movement.

A French painter and printmaker who successfully achieved the transition from the realism of Gustave Courbet to Impressionism.   Manet chose subjects from the events and appearances of his own time, stressing the definition of painting as the arrangement of paint areas on a canvas over and above its function as representation.   He exhibited in 1863 at the Salon des Refusés, his Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe ("Luncheon on the Grass").   Coldly reviewed by the critics but enthusiastically received by a group of young painters who later formed the nucleus of the Impressionists. 

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