Gardens aren’t just for flowers, and paintings of vegetable gardens can be just as good art as the most resplendent roses.
Caillebotte
In the 1870s, four major artists painted scenes of rowing and similar watersports – apparently independently.
He painted Paris, its highlife and lowlife, during the Belle Époque, but has been largely ignored by art historians.
Conclusions: did he paint Impressions, and was he a member of the Impressionist group?
Over a thousand visitors have looked at Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône. Other popular articles cover relatively unknown artists.
Was Caillebotte a patron, collector, or painter in his own right?
He is often claimed to be the greatest of the American Impressionists, and with several thousand paintings to his name he was certainly among the most prolific.
This book looks at the type of painting which was central to Impressionism – the plein air landscape – and traces its development from inception by Desportes in the latter years of the seventeenth century, through the Barbizon School, to its peak in the late nineteenth century.
The importance of relative size, and height in the picture plane, in imparting depth and space in painting.
One of the most atmospheric paintings by any Impressionist, it is mystifying that Sisley’s wonderful landscapes have been all but forgotten.
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