First problems in 1870, with increasing loss of central vision in both eyes, yet he continued to paint until the end of the century. How is this reflected in his art?
Category Archive: Painting
Examples from Velázquez, Waterhouse, Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Frith, and Ford Madox Brown of some of the most spectacular narrative paintings.
From about 1896, he got out and painted the countryside when on holiday each summer with his partner’s family. Here are some of his paintings of dense woodland and forests.
The great Thracian bard, and accomplished poet and musician, he could charm the animals with his lyre. But when he married Eurydice she died shortly after the ceremony.
A physician, zoologist and ornithologist, and talented painted, he was in Antarctic in 1902-03, then returned in 1910-12, when he died trying to return from the South Pole.
A naturalist, geologist and painter in watercolours, he emigrated to Australia, where he prospected for gold. In 1860 he left with the Burke and Wills expedition, and died the following April.
His first Wanderer appeared in a landscape in 1830, and from then many of his paintings had tiny figures standing with their back to the viewer. Were they self-portraits?
With 1 in 20 males having impaired colour vision, and over half the adult population needing spectacles, you’d expect painters to be similar, and there are claims of those who were colour-blind or had other visual problems. Are they reflected in their paintings?
A selection of these precursors to modern comic books from about 1263 to 1700. Some are based on rectangles, but others are arranged in the round.
Two species are the pioneers, in the high Arctic and mountains across Europe. Their bark has formed canoes, and their sap is a sugary syrup that can be fermented into alcoholic drinks.
