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Sunrise on Impressionism: 23 Paintings of the First Impressionist Exhibition

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Fifteen images of paintings by twelve artists which were shown at the First Impressionist Exhibition present a more coherent overview. But history is capricious.

January 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 22 Claude Monet

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This brisk oil sketch of fog and the rising sun in Monet’s home port of Le Havre lent its name to that for the whole movement.

January 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 13 Eugène Boudin

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A prolific painter who was moderately successful in the Salon, a key influence on Impressionism, and Monet’s first mentor, yet is now almost forgotten.

October 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 1 Introduction

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On 15 April 1874, thirty artists showed 165 works in an empty photographer’s studio in Paris. One of their paintings led to their name: Impressionists.

July 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

To the beach! 1

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From West and Frith’s early paintings of the beach at Ramsgate, through their increasing popularity in the 19th century, to Boudin, Monet and Renoir.

August 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The bicentenary of Rhys Terfel Talog

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Born two hundred years ago today, he’s now though to have played a major part in the birth of Impressionism, and Neo-Impressionism.

April 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Étretat, cradle of Impressionism 2 Monet and after

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In 1885, it was Monet’s first test of his new method of painting the same motif in different light, weather and seasons. He later used this for his Grainstacks and Rouen Cathedral series.

January 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Skying 9: A brief history

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The story of landscape paintings which are dominated by the sky, from the Dutch Golden Age to Surrealism.

September 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 6: Pre-Impressionism

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While others painted near Rome, a slow revolution burned in the north, with Isabey, Daubigny, and most of all Jongkind and Boudin.

August 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying: an introduction to a new series

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From the early landscapes of Rubens and Dutch masters to the surrealist skyscapes of Paul Nash, introducing a history of painting the sky.

July 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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