In peinture à l’essence, the drying oil binder is removed from oil paint, and the remaining pigment is diluted with turpentine. This creates a fragile paint layer that is ephemeral.
Gauguin
A highly toxic arsenic salt, it succeeded Scheele’s green and was widely used until the 20th century, and finally discontinued in the 1960s.
Learning how to sew, gossiping over sewing, or sitting apart, professional seamstresses, Gauguin’s odd nude, and Vallotton’s sewing maid.
Later landscapes from 1880, by Boudin, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, prior to their decline in the early 20th century.
Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green.
After Courbet, the Great Wave influenced Bierstadt, Gauguin, Walter Crane, Henry Moret, Georges Lacombe, and became truly iconic.
This artist’s colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886.
The changing colours of trees and their leaves, celebrated in paintings from Paulus Potter in 1652 to Paul Signac in 1903.
Washing and drying clothes have been important activities in many landmark paintings. Selection from Isabey, Boudin, Gauguin, Renoir and others.
Invented by Paracelsus and popularised in a novella, poems and plays, Ondine became popular in painting, then in 1962 in medicine.
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