Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Interchange of […]
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Eclectic and mysterious paintings first in academic style, then Naturalist, a few years as the ‘foreign Nabi’ before painting unusual landscapes.
More rich and lucent skies light cavalry troopers, migrating peasants, the baptism of an Ethiopian eunuch, and a river scene. Then he suddenly stopped painting.
Trained as a landscape painter, he used his landscapes for genre scenes, animal and human portraits, even myths and a religious work, and was influenced by Claude Lorrain.
How painting in oils in front of the motif became popular fifty years before paint became available in tubes, and how it was done by the experts.
A bizarre story of a ghost who repeatedly kills the ghost of the woman who spurned his love, and how it leads to a successful marriage. Illustrated by Botticelli.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 335. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Xeon […]
A few miles down river from Grez was the town of Moret, where Sisley lived and painted for 19 years, in poverty and isolation. Here are some examples of his Impressionist landscapes from there.
By 1880, an artist’s colony was forming in this village on the southern edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, and attracted painters from all over the world.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Xeon and […]
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