During the epidemic, online exhibitions have become a new normal for art appreciation, allowing people to enjoy creations from around the world without leaving their homes. Opera Gallery recently presented an online exhibition “Extraordinary Achievements: Masterpieces Exhibition,” showcasing 15 museum-quality paintings and works on paper from masters such as Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger, Kees Van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Joan Miró, and Alberto Giacometti.
Opera Gallery is holding this online exhibition to commemorate the spirit and talent of these artists, who have achieved remarkable success in the field of modern art with extraordinary insight. In these works, they have created a unique artistic style with bold and innovative imagination, reinterpreting the essence of art, breaking free from the traditional constraints of depicting nature and painting methods. With rough and passionate brushstrokes, vibrant colors, color contrasts, and light and shadow, they have created a avant-garde art movement of the 20th century, leading painting art into the flourishing period of post-Impressionism through simplified and smooth transitional forms.
Born in a small town in Normandy, France, Fernand Léger is an artist of Cubist style. He likes to use strong circular lines and vivid techniques to depict his works. He is also skilled at creating a complex sense of space while avoiding the use of scattered artistic elements, creating his own unique style.
Born in the Netherlands, Kees Van Dongen is not only a representative of the Fauvist movement but also an expressionist painter. He is known for his paintings of female portraits, using pure colors combined with simple compositions to create a harmonious yet strong contrast. He also enjoys using chiaroscuro to make the figures in his paintings more three-dimensional and vivid.
Marc Chagall showcases his peculiar imagination through the world in his paintings, in the work “Two Faced Couple” a strange couple with peculiar heads, the man’s head grows an inverted and exposed face with the upper body, while the woman’s head is a combination of a rooster and a goat. The bizarre composition and scene inevitably lead people to wonder whether the love world of this couple is real or illusory. What does their appearance in love represent?
Henri Matisse is also a representative painter of the Fauvist movement. His charcoal sketches “Farandole” and “Woman and Bouquets” are drawn with bold lines, simplifying the flat shapes, with a flexible and versatile style, creating vivid character outlines.
Joan Miró’s work “Tête” uses a combination of colored pencils and watercolors to create a contrasting and bold style. He uses India ink to draw a wide head and vivid colors for the portrait’s face, creating a profound impression.
From now until the end of October, you can enjoy many works on the Opera Gallery website. Don’t miss out!
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