[M] Quotes by famous painters & great artists - names beginning with M:

artist names: Kazimir Malevich - Franz Marc - Henri Matisse - Joan Miró - Joan Mitchell - Paula Modersohn-Becker - Piet Mondrian - Claude Monet - Henry Moore - Robert Motherwell - Edvard Munch - Gabrièle Münter -

* Kazimir Malevich, his famous art & life quotes by the artist in Suprematism

Name, Kazimir Malevich; the famous Russian artist / painter is depicted in ca. 11 art quotes, quotations and short biography notes. In 1915, Malevich laid down the foundations of Suprematism; that year the famous Russian painter published his famous manifesto ‘From Cubism to Suprematism’. Also Italian Futurism inspired him. Famous are his ‘Black square’ paintings. Later in his life Malevich turned back to figurative painting.

* Franz Marc, his famous life quotes by the artist in Blaue Reiter

Name, Franz Marc; the famous German artist / painter is depicted in ca. 12 art quotations and life quotes. As young artist Franz Marc worked and lived in Munich where he and Kandinsky founded the artist group Die Blaue Reiter / The Blue Rider; other famous members were Gabriele Münter, Jawlensky with his wife Marianne von Werefkin. Franz Marc is well known of his ‘animal’ paintings with deer and horses. Cubism and Futurism influenced his art. He died young in World War 1.

* Henri Matisse, his famous life quotes by the artist in French Fauvism

Name, Henri Matisse; the famous French artist and painter is depicted here in 19 of his life quotes & art quotations and short biography notes. Matisse was founder of the typical French art movement Fauvism with the artists Derain, Marquet and De Vlaeminck . Fauvism as art style emphasized the strength of unbroken colors, in contrast with Cubism. Later Matisse became close friends with Picasso who then admired Matisse’s use of colored forms.

* Joan Mirò, his famous art & life quotes by the artist in Surrealism

Name Joan Miro; the great Spanish artist - famous painter, sculptor, and poet - is depicted here in 19 of his sourced life quotes & art quotations, and short biography notes. Miró’s art style was influenced by Surrealism and Dada, yet he rejected membership to any artistic movement in the interwar European years. André Breton, the founder of Surrealism, described him as “the most Surrealist of us all.” Joan Miró was close friends in Paris with the famous surrealist painter / drawer Masson; later with the sculptor Calder (mobiles). Miró had a very strong influence on early Abstract Expressionism / New York School in America, together with Pablo Picasso.

* Joan Mitchell, her famous life quotes by the woman artist in Abstract Expressionism

Name, Joan Mitchell; the great American woman artist and famous female painter is depicted here in ca. 22 of her sourced artist life quotes, art quotations and biography notes. Mitchell worked and lived as young woman artist most of the time in American Abstract Expressionism in New York; later she moved - after a few temporary stays - definitely to France in the 1950′s. She was strongly attracted by the art of the French painter Claude Monet!.

* Paula Modersohn-Becker with her life and art quotes by the woman artist in early Expressionism

Name, Paula Modersohn-Becker; the famous German woman artist and famous painter is depicted here in ca. 45 of her life quotes, art quotations and short biography. Her very personal life quotes and her letters illustrate her development as a great woman artist from Impressionism towards a very personal and individual early Expressionism. In North Germany Paula Modersohn-Becker started landscape painting and portraits; later in Paris her colors became more bright in strong forms - she admired Cézanne en saw paintings of Matisse.

* Piet Mondrian, his famous life quotes by the artist in De Style

Name, Piet Mondrian; the famous Dutch artist and De STIJL (The Style) painter is depicted here in ca. 55 of his artist life quotes, art quotations, with some biography notes. Mondrian started as young painter in Dutch Impressionism, so he became a Dutch landscape painter from origin; It was in Paris where he got strongly influenced by early French Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Braque, and became - together with Theo van Doesburg - active in discovering and reflecting the basic ideas of a new abstract art, as published in ‘De Stijl’ (The Style) publications.

* Claude Monet, his famous life quotes by the artist in Impressionism

Name, Claude Monet; the famous French painter artist is depicted here in ca. 30 of his artist life quotes, art quotations and short biography. Claude Monet was a famous French painter and leading artist in the anti-academic art movement Impressionism. Monet started painting 18 years old when he found in Le Havre the famous landscape painter Boudin as his teacher; later he became a leading artist in French Impressionism and ended in painting almost abstract landscapes, as Cézanne did in his way.

* Henry Moore, his famous life quotes by the artist in Abstract Sculpture

Name, Henry Moore; one of the great famous English sculptors after World War 2 with sculptors like Barbara Hepworth, Epstein and later Anthony Caro. Moore is well known for his large human figures and declining women in abstract bronzes or in stone, which can be seen in many places around the world as public works of art. His art is a mixture of abstract and surrealistic sculpture, with influences of Mexican old sculpture. At the bottom of this page you will find biography notes and some useful art links for Henry Moore and his sculptures.

* Robert Motherwell, his famous life quotes by the artist in Abstract Expressionism

Name, Robert Motherwell; the great American artist and famous painter is depicted here in ca. 40 of his art quotes, quotations and biography notes. The sourced quotes illustrate his typical position in Abstract Expressionism; because of the many reflections he made on contemporary American and European art and by initiating an ongoing debate in the New York School on modern art. ‘Spanish Elegies’ is a famous series of paintings he made.

* Edvard Munch, his famous life quotes by the artist in modern Symbolism art

Name, Edvard Munch; the great painter of modern Symbolism painting art with his personal qoutes, on art and life. It was in Norway already that the young famous artist Munch broke with existing Realism and Impressionism. He visited France and its modern painting; years later he became recognized as a modern important painter in Germany. Munch developed a very sensitive and personal way of painting, strongly influenced by his own personal life, and so are many of his art and life quotes. Munch as an artists was searching for expressing in a symbolic and expressive art the secrets of human life and it invisible aspects.

* Gabriele Münter, her famous life quotes by the woman artist in Blaue Reiter

Name; Gabrièle Münter; famous German great woman artist of the Blue Rider / Blaue Reiter, is depicted here in 36 of her artist life quotes & art quotations and short biography notes. Gabrièle Münter painted and lived during their famous ‘Murnau’ period together with Kandinsky; they painted a lot plain air. Despite all kind of abstracting elements she took over from Kandinsky, Münter stayed a figurative woman painter, painting in strong and colorfull forms, till the end of her life.