What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.
Géricault
Certainly the most prolific, and probably the most successful, marine artist of all time. His paintings were even admired by JMW Turner.
Also a grim story of suicidal disembowelling, and a propaganda painting for Napoleon.
His painting Flaming June may give the impression that he produced eye candy to please the Victorian taste. That turns out to be false.
One of the greatest narrative paintings of all time, and the only well-known work by this promising painter.
Over a thousand visitors have looked at Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône. Other popular articles cover relatively unknown artists.
Géricault’s painstaking research resulted in a painting which is not true to any moment in time, so it is ironic that publications about the painting and its production appear not to be true to the painting itself.
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