One of the founding fathers of Norwegian and Nordic landscape painting, his was a detailed realism which tried to be true to nature.
Category Archive: Painting
Two triple portraits of ladies of the nobility, which alluded to two quite racy paintings of drunken feasts, and a goddess with 8 breasts. What is going on?
Beautiful paintings, devoid of narrative, symbols, or meaning. They represent the height of the Aesthetic movement: ‘pure’ art.
Some of the finest landscapes from the Golden Age, and a mystery which was long assumed to be a self-portrait. An influence on Boudin, hence Monet.
Was John Ruskin a promoter or detractor? How great was his influence on the style, practice, and success?
Now’s a good time to bring some order to the paintings in the gallery, and to get the timeline working properly.
Understanding his constant search and the forces that changed his painting is key to deeply appreciating his genius.
How Sargent’s portrait of a young New York bride turned into a provocative account of The New Woman.
Were Pre-Raphaelite landscape paintings just a brief and unimportant, passing phase, or did they have significant influence?
Death, doctored oil paint, and the stuff of nightmares: images from near the European Parliament.
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