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Gervex

Asleep in the painting 2: Fatigue

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More slumbering people painted by Courbet, Doré, Walter Crane, and major painters of the 19th century.

June 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Constantin Meunier 1: Cigar-making, fishermen, and family

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Better known for his sculpture, his visit to Seville let him paint women working in the huge tobacco factory there. He also depicted those working in coastal industries.

January 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 5 Growth of the city

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Less often painted than the rural poor, Naturalism did show the growing pains of the 19th century cities. Paintings from Lhermitte, Luce, Bellows, and more.

January 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 3 Spread

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Unlike Impressionism, which spread relatively slowly, Naturalism was prominent in the Salon, so spread across Europe and North America like wildfire.

December 19, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Alexandre Cabanel and his pupils: the pupils

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Eight of Cabanel’s most precocious and brilliant pupils. Only one won the Prix de Rome, and the others went on to develop Naturalist art. Was Cabanel the father of this new movement?

August 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Anatomy lessons, autopsies, and surgery: they’re different

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It’s easy to confuse anatomising, an autopsy, and surgery. Here’s a guide to their different readings, with some of the finest example paintings.

April 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Naturalism of Gustave Caillebotte 2

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Works from 1880, in which his style became looser and possibly more Impressionist. Or was he still a Naturalist?

April 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Rise of the Clinic: 2, hospitals

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For painters, hospital medicine was spectacle, and its doctors actors on a stage. As time progressed, artists and doctors looked more closely at the patient.

February 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Surgery, sinners, and soirées: the paintings of Henri Gervex

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An emaciated corpse in a morgue, a notorious nude rejected by the Salon, and a busy day in the couturier: his choice of motifs was very broad.

February 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting
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