Portrait of Dora Maar, was created in 1937 by Pablo Picasso in Surrealism style.

If art is a mirror of life, then the decorative, hyper-realist paintings of Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) embody her passion for glamour and success, with her works from the 1920s and ‘30s reminiscing the perfectly constructed film stills of the movie age.

The Green Stripe (La Raie Verte), also known as Portrait of Madame Matisse. The Green Line, is a portrait by Henri Matisse of his wife, Amélie Noellie Matisse-Parayre. It is an oil painting on canvas, completed in 1913. It is named for the green band that divides the face in half, by which Matisse sought to produce a sense of light, shadow, and volume without using traditional shading.

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Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter and sculptor and is probably the most famous and widely known artist of the 20th century. Pablo Picasso paintings are among some of the most famous paintings in the world.  Boy with a Pipe was sold for $104 million in 2004 and was one of Picasso’s most expensive oil paintings. Picasso was trained by his father, who was also an accomplished artist. He then studied in Barcelona and later in Paris, where he befriended many famous contemporary painters. Picasso died in France in 1973, having produced a total of some 50,000 works of art during his lifetime.

Pollock was widely noticed for his technique of pouring or splashing liquid household paint onto a horizontal surface ('drip technique'), enabling him to view and paint his canvases from all angles. It was also called 'action painting', since he used the force of his whole body to paint, often in a frenetic dancing style.

The Painting Of Bonnard "Nude in the sun" also called "Nude with side lighting", although correct "Model, illuminated from behind" (Model in Backlight). It is important that lighting the artist focuses. This painting is one of the first in which Bonnard departs from the restrained palette of intimate works from the early 1900's and admits on your canvas the sun. The light literally fills the picture: he is on the curtains, on the walls, on the covers of the sofa. Sunlight caresses every inch of a naked female body strong. The model the artist was his wife Martha.