Beautiful paintings, devoid of narrative, symbols, or meaning. They represent the height of the Aesthetic movement: ‘pure’ art.
Category Archive: Painting
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.
After 1870, he drifted from the Pre-Raphaelite, painting more seascapes, but still some wonderful coastal scenes.
From his first painting of the Glacier of Rosenlaui in 1856, Brett made pure landscapes in Pre-Raphaelite style – stunning in their detail.
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