If we look at Turner and Constable's landscape with the XXI Century eye, we probably tend to see pleasant or exciting views of the nature or '800 English countryside and forget all about the stunning impact they had at the time they were painted.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) was a group of seven young male art students who first came together to present a unified challenge to British art in September 1848 at the London home of John Everett Millais (1829-96)........ (***)

In the summer of 1869 Monet hire a little place in a hamlet called Saint Michelle near Bougival on the bank of the river Seine in a place that became known as the cradle of the Impressionism and here together with his friend and fellow painter Renoir they forged or began to forge a style that later challenged all the established conventions of painting. (**)

Renoir's painting “The Umbrellas” is one of the National Gallery's most famous works and yet, on
close examination, there is something odd about this most famous of picture.
The figure on the left carrying a hat box has firmly drawn outlines compared to the little girl, who is painted in a recognisably Impressionist style which we might describe as feathery.

Offered to the French State by the painter Claude Monet (...) as a symbol for peace, the Water Lilies are installed according to plan at the Orangerie Museum in 1927, a few months after his death.

This unique set, a true "Sixtine of Impressionism", in the words of André Masson in 1952, testifies to Monet’s later work. (****)

Van Gogh tale is unique in the history of humankind and belongs strictly to him and to him alone. No many other artists in the world were so rejected during their life as much as he was loved after his death.

"Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey..........................................."(5*)

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso:

Big, bold, intimidating and jagged as broken glass, this is the painting that marks the beginning of 20th-century art.....(*)