More paintings of Russian and Slavic legends and folk tales, including Bogatyrs, Ivan Tsarevich and the Grey Wolf, Sleeping Beauty, and the Frog Princess.
Category Archive: Life
Joseph Wright of Derby combined contemporary science in the Age of Enlightenment with impressive lighting and chiaroscuro effects, across a series of paintings from 1765.
Tracing through his techniques and use of different types of study made in preparation for finished paintings of trees, such as those of Salisbury Cathedral.
King of Ithaca, he first feigns madness to dodge going to war against Troy, but then uses his cunning and ingenuity to design the Trojan Horse and conquer the city. Runs into trouble with Polyphemus during the return journey to Ithaca.
More of Chase’s pupils, including early American Modernists John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Charles Demuth, and Georgia O’Keeffe, and many others.
How the teaching of art, especially that of William Merritt Chase, brought artistic independence to the USA in the late 19th century, painters from Lydia Field Emmet to Louise Upton Brumback.
A prolific painter of Russian and Slavic folk tales. Includes a battle from the epic of Rus, Ivan Tsarevich the Firebird and the Grey Wolf, and Baba Yaga.
Initially, he followed tradition, painting studies sketchily and finished work tight and with academic finish. He progressively presented more painterly works, becoming radical in his later years.
You have a brief window of 30-60 minutes to capture the lighting, shade and shadows, when you’re lucky. How practice and skill overcame one of the great challenges.
Co-founder of the British school of landscape painting, he specialised in trees and woodland, and was greatly admired by John Constable. A selection of some of his finest paintings.
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