Edvard Munch/Wikipedia Munch’s The Scream is the best known example of Expressionism ... threatening masks that overwhelm the whole picture In one painting, The Intrigue, 1890, which forms ...

That’s because of how wide his influence has been. Chéret (1836–1932) is one of the artists who defines the image of Belle Époque Paris through the afterimage of his dazzling commercial posters.

This door-stop of a book weighing in at half a stone covers all the art aspects of that incredibly fertile, now lost world: painting, drawing, applied and decorative arts, architecture ...

Undeterred, I’ve come to Paris to unpack what I can of the belle époque — a golden age ... We stand in front of a towering oil painting of actress and courtesan Sarah Bernhardt reclined ...