Virtuoso painter who used brushes with long handles to cover huge canvases at great speed. One of three grand masters of modern European art.
Category Archive: Painting
Overview of those most active during the 19th century, and generally Realist in style. Includes those who spent much of their career in Ukraine, and three famous expatriates.
Largely self-taught, he met with success at the Salon in 1861. His highly individual chiaroscuro style is the antithesis of Impressionism.
Aeneas founds the city of Lavinium in Italy, defeats King Turnus, and is then deified as Jupiter Indiges. From Lavinium comes Alba Longa, then Rome.
Boarding a canoe to shoot a swan in the Underworld, war canoes north of Vancouver Island, and the Canadian painter-canoeist Tom Thomson.
From the Duke of Orleans white-water canoeing in Lapland in 1795, to Canadian fur traders shooting the rapids in the 1860s.
Scenes of the Valencian fishing industry, a psychiatrist researching with his microscope, and young boys with disabilities enjoying the sea.
A fun scene from Orlando Furioso, Ophelia’s death, two scenes from Jerusalem Delivered, one of the earliest works painted from a photo, and small boats in rough seas.
In earlier paintings, unicorns are usually intended to be real animals. They also have symbolic associations with chastity which lasted longer.
A history painter from west Ukraine, who was appointed professor in Kyiv before he fell from grace in 1937, and was charged as a terrorist.
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