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BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTERS

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTERS

Limited edition posters of contemporary artist Bob Kessel.

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art history poster fishbowl by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Fish Bowl)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster oOslo o sole mio by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Oslo o sole mio)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster pikene pa broen by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Pikene pa broen)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster machen auf Brücke by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Madchen auf Brücke)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster van gogh by gauguin by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Van Gogh by Gauguin)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster gauguin by van gogh by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Gauguin by Van Gogh)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster bain turn by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Bain Turc)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster women of algers by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Women of Algers)  30″ x 40″

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ART HISTORY POSTER DOUCHE BY BOBKESSEL

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Douche)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster may milton by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (May Milton)  30″ x 40″

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art history posters jacqueline by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Jacqueline)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster matisse in studio by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Matisse’s Studio)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster luncheon by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Luncheon in the Park)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster chicken head by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Chickenhead)  30″ x 40″

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ART HISTORY POSTER (Arachon) by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Arachon)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster flaming june by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Flaming June)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster manet by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (By the Sea)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster baronet's room by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Barnett’s Room)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster Cezanne's Face by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Cezanne’s Face)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster moorish woman by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Moorish Woman)  30″ x 40″

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THE KESSEL RUN OF NEW POSTERS Episode XIII

THE KESSEL RUN OF NEW POSTERS Episode XIII

Limited edition posters of contemporary artist Bob Kessel.

Each Bob Kessel poster represents a sample from an art series
made up of several related pictures.

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interiors poster ipad rug by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL INTERIORS POSTER (iPad Rug)  30″ x 40″

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interiors poster iMac by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL INTERIORS POSTER (iMac)  30″ x 40″

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by the seashore poster cliffs petit by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL BY THE SEASHORE POSTER (Cliffs Petit)  30″ x 40″

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artist models poster green dress by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ARTIST MODELS POSTER (Green Dress)  30″ x 40″

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tahiti poster girl heads by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL TAHITI POSTER (Two Girls)  30″ x 40″

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tahiti poster long hair by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL TAHITI POSTER (Long Hair)  30″ x 40″

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cityscapes poster nyc shadows

BOB KESSEL CITYSCAPES POSTER (NYC Shadows)  30″ x 40″

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ART HISTORY POSTER DOUCHE BY BOBKESSEL

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (Douche)  30″ x 40″

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art history poster may milton by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL ART HISTORY POSTER (May Milton)  30″ x 40″

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the nude nudie blues by bobkessel

BOB KESSEL THE NUDE POSTER (Nudie Blues)  30″ x 40″

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ART HISTORY INSPIRED ART PRINTS BY BOB KESSEL

 

ART HISTORY INSPIRED ART PRINTS 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

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NUDE IN TUB after Bonnard by bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
NUDE IN TUB (AFTER BONNARD) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
ABSINTHE (AFTER PICASSO) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
ZWEI NACKTES (AFTER KIRCHNER) by Bob Kessel 

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4 BATHERS AFTER CEZANNE by bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
4 BATHERS (AFTER CEZANNE) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
GOLDFISH (AFTER MATISSE) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
I HAVE NO MOUTH BUT I MUST SCREAM (AFTER MUNCH) by Bob Kessel 

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klimt-hug-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
HUG (AFTER KLIMT) by Bob Kessel 

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degas-girl-rev-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
GIRL WITH TOWEL (AFTER DEGAS) by Bob Kessel 

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aristide-lautrec-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
ARISTIDE (AFTER LAUTREC) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
STE MARIES (AFTER VAN GOGH) by Bob Kessel 

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monet-hay-in-field-pink-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
HAYSTACKS IN A FIELD (AFTER MONET) by Bob Kessel 

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michelangelo-wrestlers-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
WRESTLERS (AFTER MICHELANGELO) by Bob Kessel 

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veneer-pearl-sq-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
PEARL EARRING (AFTER VERMEER) by Bob Kessel 

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temptation-goltzius-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
TEMPTATION (AFTER GOLTZIUS) by Bob Kessel 

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venus-adonis-titian-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
VENUS AND ADONIS (AFTER TITIAN) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
NARCISSUS (AFTER CARRAVAGGIO) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
YOUNG MAN (AFTER REMBRANDT) by Bob Kessel 

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barbizon-sower-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
SOWER (AFTER MILLET) by Bob Kessel 

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bull-lluviadetoros-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
LLUVIA DE TOROS (AFTER GOYA) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
RED DRESS (AFTER GAUGUIN) by Bob Kessel 

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renoir-dance-city-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
CITY DANCE (AFTER RENOIR) by Bob Kessel 

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uta-no-ona-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
UTA NO ONA (AFTER UTAMARO) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
TSUMAGO (AFTER HIROSHIGE) by Bob Kessel 

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DEATH-OF-MARAT-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
DEATH OF MARAT (AFTER DAVID) by Bob Kessel 

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big-ass-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
BIG RED ASS (AFTER CHAGALL) by Bob Kessel 

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cityscapes-boogiewoogie-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
BOOGIE WOOGIE (AFTER MONDRIAN) by Bob Kessel 

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gray-and-black-bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
COMPOSITION IN GRAY AND BLACK (AFTER WHISTLER) by Bob Kessel 

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roys girl by bobkessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
ROY’S GIRL (AFTER LICHTENSTEIN) by Bob Kessel 

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TOMGIRL-TORSO-bob-kessel

ART HISTORY SERIES
TOM GIRL (AFTER WESSELMANN) by Bob Kessel 

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ART HISTORY SERIES
MEL’S GIRL (AFTER RAMOS) by Bob Kessel 

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni by Bob Kessel

Michelangelo’s birthday is March 6.
To celebrate this great artist, Bob Kessel has created a series of limited edition fine art prints based on Michelangelo’s art.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on 6, March 1475, commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time. His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter’s Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo’s design, the dome being completed after his death on 18, February 1564.

 

MICHELANGELO PIETA by Bob Kessel

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TORSO by Bob Kessel

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MICHELANGELO IGNUDI by Bob Kessel

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MICHELANGELO IGNUDI BACK by Bob Kessel

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MICHELANGELO DELPHIC by Bob Kessel

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MICHELANGELO SNAKE by Bob Kessel

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MICHELANGELO WRESTLERS by Bob Kessel

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Bob Kessel

Pierre-Auguste Renoir by Bob Kessel

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born February 25, 1841 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France.

Renoir’s paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them, an effect today known as diffuse reflection. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouillère, 1869).

In 1890, he married Aline Victorine Charigot, who, along with a number of the artist’s friends, had already served as a model for Le Déjeuner des canotiers (Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881), and with whom he already had a child, Pierre, in 1885. After his marriage, Renoir painted many scenes of his wife and daily family life, including their children and their nurse, Aline’s cousin Gabrielle Renard. The Renoirs had three sons, one of whom, Jean, became a filmmaker of note and another, Pierre, became a stage and film actor. He died December 3,  1919 at the age of 78.

A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir’s style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art.

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WINSLOW HOMER by Bob Kessel

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WINSLOW HOMER QUOTE by Bob Kessel

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Winslow Homer was born February 24, 1836. He was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art.

Largely self-taught, Homer began his career working as a commercial illustrator. He subsequently took up oil painting and produced major studio works characterized by the weight and density he exploited from the medium. He also worked extensively in watercolor, creating a fluid and prolific oeuvre, primarily chronicling his working vacations.

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Homer’s career as an illustrator lasted nearly twenty years. He contributed to magazines such as Ballou’s Pictorial and Harper’s Weekly, at a time when the market for illustrations was growing rapidly, and when fads and fashions were changing quickly. His early works, mostly commercial engravings of urban and country social scenes, are characterized by clean outlines, simplified forms, dramatic contrast of light and dark, and lively figure groupings — qualities that remained important throughout his career. His quick success was mostly due to this strong understanding of graphic design and also to the adaptability of his designs to wood engraving.

Homer died in 1910 at the age of 74 in his Prout’s Neck studio and was interred in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His painting, Shooting the Rapids, Saguenay River, remains unfinished.

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PROUT’S NECK by Bob Kessel after Winslow Homer

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PROUT’S NECK by Winslow Homer