One of 30 artists exhibiting at the First Impressionist Exhibition, his painting was still realist, he achieved success, but died suddenly at the height of his career in 1884.
history of painting
A key artist in the development of the Estonian nation, he was also an avid painter in pastels. Here’s a small selection of his work from the 20th century.
Before 1908, Signac’s watercolour sketches were fairly conventional in their use of white space, and were preparation for his oil paintings. He then saw late watercolours of Paul Cézanne.
A story of jealousy, adultery, treachery and race, which resulted in an early professional actress in a lead, and the first major lead for a black actor.
Two specialists in the sub-genre, John Godward and John Singer Sargent, show us how to chill out in their paintings.
The enjoyment of being idle, indulgence of relaxation, and blissful laziness: that’s dolce far niente for you, in paintings to chill out with.
On 15 April 1874, thirty artists showed 165 works in an empty photographer’s studio in Paris. One of their paintings led to their name: Impressionists.
After his death, over 1500 of his pastels were sold, the great majority of which have since disappeared. Here are some of the finest of the survivors.
For this final decade, he was prolific, painting a series of ports of France in 1929-31, and many other views of the coast of France and of Corsica.
Titania, Queen of the Fairies, falls in love with Bottom, whose head has been turned into that of an ass. All ends well, after a farcical play within a play/
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