Oil paintings from 1858 and Le Havre, 1865 at Honfleur, bathers at la Grenouillère, London, Amsterdam, and when he was living in Argenteuil near Paris, in 1874.
Category Archive: Painting
In 1792-93, Goya suffered severe illness in which he lost his sight for periods, suffered tinnitus, and became profoundly deaf. This shows the effect on his paintings.
From around 1850 paintings without narrative closure started to become popular, and within a few years those became true ‘problem pictures’ intended to encourage speculation.
Canadian painter of First Nations peoples, villages and the trees of British Columbia from 1898 to the 1940s. Unique swirling and dancing trees.
A Trojan, son of the mortal Anchises and Venus, he flees the burning city as it’s being sacked by the Greeks, losing his wife in the process, and starts a journey around the Mediterranean.
After a long break, Truth reappeared with her mirror and well, influenced the Statue of Liberty, became involved in the Dreyfus Affair, and the new art of photography.
She started as a now lost painting by Apelles, then later gained a mirror and a well, following old proverbs. She has ended up with a burning torch, and the support of Father Time.
From 1908 he became almost blind in his right eye, and had difficulty distinguishing colours. Evidence in his paintings up to 1925 shows how difficult his art became as a result.
A small selection of his instantaneous narrative paintings drawn largely from Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, from 1630 to 1651.
How this Austrian artist’s painting changed through years before the First World War, then the carnage of that conflict, and its aftermath.
