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The early Toulouse Lautrec paintings were drawn at a young age. Their favourite juvenile subject was the horse, as seen in the sketch of Two Riders on Horseback. This was probably a result of the influence from his first teacher, Rene Princeteau, a close family deaf mute friend, who painted fashionable sporting pictures.

The bold colors, exaggerated body proportions and stark contrasts help Paul Gauguin paintings achieve broad success in the late 19th century. This paved the way for the Primitivism art movement. Paul Gauguin was a famed French artist who didn’t have any formal art training. Instead, he simply followed his own vision, abandoning artistic conventions.

Early Caravaggio paintings were paintings of flowers and fruits, including Boy Peeling a Fruit, also known to be the earliest of Caravaggio paintings, Boy with a Basket of Fruit and Young Sick Bacchus. They demonstrated physical particularity, an aspect of Caravaggio realism, for which he became famous for.