Looking at paintings of women doing their laundry in a landscape view in historical context.
Gauguin
Less well known outside Norway, later works include vast canvases for Oslo University, and many vibrant and vigorous paintings of nudes and landscapes.
First article outlining Munch’s life and work. His early works shocked critics in Norway, and in Berlin brought an exhibition to a premature end.
First shown in the Salon at the age of only 18, Vincent van Gogh spotted his talent. Not only was it cut short, but his paintings are vanishing.
It was Clive Bell’s aesthetics which underpinned Roger Fry’s promotion of the Post-Impressionists. Here is what he wrote.
An exhibition in London in 1910 changed the course of history for Cézanne, and John Singer Sargent.
This serene and startingly colourful nocturne took painting from the heights of Impressionism towards several radical movements of the twentieth century.
A simply golden landscape at sunset, by the central figure in Impressionism and father of Post-Impressionism.
This series of articles set out to consider how faithfully landscape painters have tried to depict the views and objects that they paint, as the ‘truth’ of their painting.
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