?No art is less spontaneous than mine?. What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters; of inspiration, spontaneity, temperament ?I know nothing.”? Edgar Degas (1834?1917).With c
Theodore Rousseau (1812–1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition
Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) was of the generation of artists that helped transform painting during the first half of the 20th century. As a painter, Bonnard preferred to work from memory—imaginatively
