We still associate brushmarks with sketchiness, speed of painting, spontaneity, bravura, and panache – and smooth paint surfaces, assembled from multiple layers and glazes, as being heartless mechanical essays in technique.
Category Archive: Painting
An innovator and major influence in the Impressionist movement, he seems to have been judged on his poorer works, not these, his best paintings.
She started with packs of fruit wrapped in clear plastic, and systematically investigated the complex balance between transmitted and reflected light.
Portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Kauffmann, and others show extensive brushstrokes.
Two justifiably popular Impressionist painters who are now largely forgotten, and a third who has simply vanished from the records.
The early wild enthusiasm for hypertext has now matured into a rich and stimulating literature. Here are suggestions.
A remarkable cave painting in the Ardèche, France, is likely to be the oldest landscape painting in the world.
Was painterly style a Venetian phenomenon, or was it more widespread in the early sixteenth century?
One of the finest print-makers and porcelain designers (and his Impressionist wife), another vanished painter, and another who died just after the Second Exhibition.
An illustrated index of those who took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, with links to articles about them, and example works.
The Eclectic Light Company 