The Death of Sardanapalus, a story from Orlando Furioso, and the question of narrative in Courbet’s paintings.
Courbet
Trees in snowy landscapes, as painted by Bruegel, van Ruisdael, Courbet, and a multitude of Impressionists. A Wintry feast.
This extended essay is likely to change much of our thinking about painting, perhaps art in general. It may be the most important book about art of this decade.
Monet’s paintings are overfamiliar, overexposed, and devalued. Can this book cast fresh light?
The period 1700 to 1850 saw the introduction of the first modern pigments, such as Prussian blue and emerald green, which started to transform paintings.
Because these landscape elements are constrained within the overall work, the artist has complete control over them, something reflected in their reading too. Such cameo landscapes are never awe-inspiring, but subjugate to the whole.
Ellen Altfest paints the real world, a morsel at a time. Her paintings are both very modern and deeply traditional, and absolutely magnificent.
Whistler developed a unique style which had much in common with the Impressionists, anticipating several of the key features of Impressionism.
Several Finnish painters assumed impressionist style, although in the case of Gallen-Kallela it was a step on his road to Expressionism.
If anyone led Impressionism during the 1860s and early 1870s, it was surely Jongkind.
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