Before the 19th century, most paintings of deserts were imaginary. Then artists started to paint them at first hand. Paintings up to 1864.
Category Archive: Life
Fine paintings from 1921 by Pierre Bonnard, wildlife artist Bruno Liljefors, Colin Campbell Cooper, and others.
How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.
From Dürer and Poussin to Cézanne and Hodler, reflections have been important in many landscape paintings.
One of the famous painted narratives, Oedipus and the Sphinx proves an exception to all rules, but is glossed over in discussion of the literary narrative.
Fine paintings from 1921, by John Collier, Christian Krohg, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and others.
Alfred Hunt’s dazzling November Rainbow, Eric Ravilious walking alone in the rain, and the last and greatest paintings of Alfred Sisley.
Paintings by Richard Wilson, John Sell Cotman, James Ward, Samuel Palmer, Hans Gude and others showing the landscapes of Wales.
Between 1910-14, avant garde painting in Britain came to the fore, with exhibitions of the Allied Artists Association, Fry’s Post-Impressionists, and this group of 16 painters.
From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.
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