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Events relating to painting
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career
Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time
French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris
Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France
Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient
French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian
A change of palette by Pablo Picasso takes him into what becomes known as his Blue Period
Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia
Henri Matisse completes his painting Luxe, Calme et Volupté
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and other Dresden students form the Expressionist group Die Brücke
Pablo Picasso's palette becomes warmer as Blue evolves into Rose
Henri Matisse, in the south of France, paints The Open Window, Collioure, the first of his many works on this theme
Matisse, Derain and others, exhibiting in Paris their shockingly colourful new works, are dubbed fauves ("wild beasts") by a critic
Pablo Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein prefigures cubism in its mask-like treatment of her face
A large retrospective exhibition in Paris gives Paul Gauguin a growing posthumous reputation
Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a violent transition into cubism, is a turning point in western art
Without financial support from his mother, Hitler ekes out a meagre living painting postcards and advertisements
Georges Braque's Houses at L'Estaque introduces analytic Cubism
The French critic Louis Vauxcelles describes Braque's latest landscapes as being composed of cubes, resulting in the term cubism
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art
Henri Matisse completes two large paintings, La Danse and La Musique, for the staircase of Sergei Shchukin's house in Moscow
Wassily Kandinsky's paintings entitled Compositions are the first examples of purely abstract art
