Inspired by Émile Zola’s novels, Nordic painters including Krohg, and Werenskiold, American Charles Ulrich, Gandolfo in Sicily, and others. How Roll’s painting of a strike led to Zola’s ‘Germinal’.
history of painting
Increasingly challenging reflections by Caillebotte, Martin Rico, Normann in the Norwegian fjords, specialist Frits Thaulow, and an essay in optics by Kazimierz Sichulski.
Challenging Naturalist paintings with equally challenging readings: a beggar giving his last coin, 5 hardened gamblers in a dive, a young apprentice making a cog, and a council group portrait.
Pairs of oil studies and finished paintings by Rubens, Géricault, Constable, Frith, Seurat, Eakins, Bierstadt and Cross.
Worn by the figure of death to obscure its face, as a cowl on a monk’s robes, in religious and academic uniforms, as a chaperon on Dante, and for the traveller when migrating.
Trained in Paris from 1877, she met Bastien-Lepage 5 years later, and became his protégé. Rapid success with the urban poor, she died just 3 months before her mentor.
Accurate when on his home ground, Constable appears to have altered reflections for effect. Turner even more so, with frequent vertical exaggeration, but wonderful effects.
Both Joshua Reynolds and Albert Pinkham Ryder had learned traditional and proven methods of painting in oils, but abandoned them in search of the secrets of the Master. Here’s what happened.
With the old horse-drawn cabs replaced by motor taxis, Ury found his perfect motif, and another at a busy station in the heart of Berlin.
He started painting the streets of Berlin in 1888, when its cabs were still drawn by horses. He remained in search of his perfect motif until they had been replaced by motor taxis.
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