ART HISTORY 101 by Bob Kessel

“There is no comment on pictures but pictures,
on music but music, on poems but poetry.
If you do, you do. If you don’t, you don’t.
And that’s all there is to that.”
- WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS


Bob Kessel with his paintings


YO SOY SAUCE by Bob Kessel
( BOB SELF PORTRAIT )

 

BERLIN FRAU by Bob Kessel after Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

 

VIENNA FRAU by Bob Kessel after Gustav Klimt

 

PARIS GIRL by Bob Kessel after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

TOKYO GIR by Bob Kessel after Kitagawa Utamaro

 

TAHITIAN GIRL by Bob Kessel after Paul Gauguin

 

DUTCH GIRL by Bob Kessel after Jan Vermeer

 

CUBED GIRL by Bob Kessel after Pablo Picasso

 

GIRL WITH RED HAT by Bob Kessel after Jan Vermeer

 

THE GREEN LINE by Bob Kessel after Henri Matisse

 

FRENCH NUDE by Bob Kessel after Henri Matisse

 


PABLO PICASSO AND FRANCOISE GILOT by Bob Kessel after Robert Capa

 

LUNCHEON ON THE GRASS by Bob Kessel after Edouard Manet

 

LE BONHEUR DE VIVRE by Bob Kessel after Henri Matisse

 

MILLET TIME by Bob Kessel after Jean-Francois Millet

 

FEMME BELLE EPOQUE by Bob Kessel after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

ARISTIDE by Bob Kessel after Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

 

DANCE OF TIME by Bob Kessel after Nicolas Poussin

 

HAIR GIRL by Bob Kessel after Georges de La Tour

 

VENUS by Bob Kessel after Titian

 

LAS MENINAS by Bob Kessel after Diego Velázquez


Bob Kessel is an American artist nationally known for his illustrations which appear in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Tokyo Journal, Japan Times, Berkeley Monthly, San Francisco Metro Magazine, Texas Monthly, Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, Milken Review and many other national publications. His fine art work is in numerous private and museum collections.
His prints are sold nationwide through Mystic Seaport Museum as part of the "Great Illustrators of America Print Collection".



The pictures on this website are available as limited edition fine art prints and originals. For more information on purchasing these prints contact:
BOB KESSEL
860-334-9438
b.kessel@snet.net

This website is copyrighted by Bob Kessel © 2007
Any unauthorized use of the content contained in this site is prohibited

Famous artists depicted in the Bob Kessel Art History series:

Giovanni Bellini, Pietro Bernini, Pierre Bonnard, Sandro Botticelli, François Boucher, William Bouguereau, Caravaggio, Marc Chagall, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Courbet, Jacques-Louis David, Eugene Delacroix, Otto Dix, Paul Gauguin, Hendrick Goltzius, Francisco de Goya, Francesco Hayez, Erich Heckel, Ando Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai, Pieter de Hooch, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Jan van Kessel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Gustav Klimt, Willem de Kooning, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Ferdinand Leger, Frederic Lord Leighton, Edouard Mant, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Jean Francois Millet, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Nicolas Poussin, Rembrandt Van Rijn, Karl Schmidt-Rottloff, Peter Paul Rubens, Georges Seurat, Georges de La Tour, Titian, Kitagawa Utamaro, Diego Velazquez, Jan Vermeer, Max Weber