This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.
Category Archive: Life
Around 25,000 live in the Carpathian Mountains in Ukraine. Here are paintings of traditional life in the rugged and snowy terrain.
Crammed into this crowded street scene in one of London’s leafy suburbs is a detailed account of the breadth and depth of contemporary Victorian society.
Initially, Sickert had tried to make a career in theatre before painting. He loved music halls, and painted many during the late 19th century.
Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.
They find themselves in the midst of hanged outlaws, then are surrounded by living bandits. Eventually they reach Barcelona and see the sea.
Completes this tour of the painter’s palette, with well-known greens, then the essential blacks and whites. Examples from Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh.
A trip round the painter’s palette, with outstanding examples of well-known colours in use. Starts with yellow, then to red and finally to blue.
Another huge human panorama which captured the spirit of the age, set in Paddington Railway Station. Not his last, though.
Three misfits: Lucien Pissarro, a Neo-Impressionist landscape painter and print-maker; Maxwell Lightfoot, brilliant but scathingly critical of the others; Walter Taylor, friend of Douglas Fox Pitt.
The Eclectic Light Company 