These are the masterpieces of painting the participants of the pilot program “The making of a great painting: Learning how to learn from masters” chose to study.There are fourteen participants in this pilot (or rather fifteen, since I am going to follow the program myself…) The works are ordered (more or less) in the reverse chronological order, spanning the whole epoch of post-Renaissance painting, from the seventeenth to the twentieth century (the eighteenth century isn’t represented, though). All in all, both the quality and the variety are staggering, aren’t they?
![Marc Chagall. The clown Musician. 1957](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chagall-the-clown-musician-1957.jpg)
![Henri Matisse. La Porte de la Casbah. 1912-1913](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Matisse_Kasbah.jpg)
![Joaquin Sorolla. Niña en la Playa. 1910](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/JOAQUIN-SOROLLA-4.jpg)
![John Haberle. Torn in Transit. 1888-1889.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Haberle_Torn_in_Transit.jpg)
![Paul Cezanne. Pine and Rocks. 1897.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/PaulCezannePinesAndRocks.jpg)
![Paul Cezanne. Fruit and Jug on a Table. 1890-1894.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Cezanne-fruit-and-jug-on-a-table.jpg)
(Two people will be studying this painting!)
![Vincent Van Gogh. Wheat field with Crows. 1890.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Vincent_Van_Gogh_Crows-1024x491.jpg)
![Vincent Van Gogh. L'Arlésienne: Madame Joseph-Michel Ginoux. 1888-1889.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Van-Gogh-Portrait.jpg)
![Vincent Van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Van-Gogh-the-starry-night-18891.jpgHD_-1024x640.jpg)
![Vincent Van Gogh. Cafe Terrace. 1888.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Van-gogh-cafe-terrace-place-du-forum-arles-18881.jpg)
![Mary Cassatt. Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge. 1879.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Cassatt-woman-with-a-pearl-necklace-1879.jpg)
![J.M.W. Turner. The morning after the deluge. 1843.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Turner-the-morning-after-the-deluge.jpg)
![Rembrandt van Rijn. Portrait of Johannes Wtenbogaert. 1633.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rembrandt-portrait-of-johannes-wtenbogaert-1633.jpg)
![Rembrandt van Rijn. The return of the prodigal son. 1669.](http://lenalevin.com/artofseeing/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Rembradnt-the-return-of-the-prodigal-son-1669.jpg)
(This is a special addition to the program, because I have decided to follow it myself, setting myself the most impossible challenge I could possibly imagine…)