From the tribute to a dead colleague, and a record of an important exhibition, to the downright enigmatic embedded paintings of Velázquez, Courbet and others.
Category Archive: Painting
Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.
Born in Izyum, he spent most of his life in Kharkiv after training in St Petersburg and touring Europe and Egypt. Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes.
Table of contents listing plays in the order they were written, with listings of major artists covered, and links to each article.
By the start of the 20th century, he had abandoned Neo-Impressionist for Post-Impressionism, and continued painting well after the First World War.
He started as an Impressionist before joining the Neo-Impressionists. Specialising in industrial landscapes and nocturnes, here are paintings from the first half of his life.
Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.
Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.
Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image
Born in Mariupol when it was a hub for oxcart transport, he painted unusual light, the River Dnipro, and the coast of Crimea.
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