Exposure to colour was, for centuries, determined by class. The poor lived in largely drab worlds, but the rich surrounded themselves with vivid hues. This all changed in the late 19th century and the 20th.
Gérôme
An unusual transformation, from statue to person, which has been widely retold. A superb series from Burne-Jones, more from Gérôme, and Regnault – fine paintings.
For his first decade as a professional artist, he painted narrative works and portraits. Here are some of his little-known narrative paintings.
In the years to 1879, she became skilled in different media, including pastels, and her style transformed to Impressionism.
His remarkable paintings of figures in landscapes were well received at the Salons. Then came the Franco-Prussian War, and his death after just 8 years of painting.
You’d think a painting of him in battle would be ideal, not one of him being dragged from a brothel.
A polymath during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, he trained in Paris, and painted wonderful street and other scenes in Turkey.
Celebrate the Christmas holiday with a review of many wonderful paintings of snow scenes.
His early career, drawing extraordinary ‘noirs’ in charcoal, making lithographs, and starting to paint in oils.
His classical narratives are as sophisticated as Leighton’s, his spectacles as good as Gérôme at his best, and he made some of the best paintings of the Aesthetic movement.
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