Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist artist. He was a self-taught painter who became a friend of Picasso and an inspiration to the Paris avant-garde.
While working as a toll collector in Paris, he taught himself to paint and exhibited his work from 1886 until the end of his life. He was given the nickname "Le Douanier" ("the customs officer") by his acquaintances in the Parisian artistic community.
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was born in Amersfoort, Netherlands, and died in New York.
Mondrian used the simplest combinations of straight lines, right angles, primary colours, and black, white, and gray. The resulting works possess an extreme formal purity that embodies the artist’s spiritual belief in a harmonious cosmos.
He was an important leader in the development of modern abstract art and a major exponent of the Dutch abstract art movement known as De Stijl (“The Style”).
Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands. He was a post-impressionist painter whose work, notable for its beauty, emotion and colour, influenced much 20th century art.
He struggled with mental illness, and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life. Van Gogh died in France on July 29, 1890, at the age of 37, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
He became famous after his death, and is considered to be a misunderstood genius.
0208 590 1496
0208 503 8311
South Park Primary School
Water Lane
Seven Kings
Ilford
IG3 9HF