Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, SĂ©rusier, LA Ring and others.
history of painting
Masks as symbols of theatre and drama, in ancient times, from Noh theatre in Japonisme, in masked balls, and in carnivals.
Paintings of urban poverty were acclaimed at the Salon during the 1880s. A small selection from Fernand Pelez, Antonino Gandolfo (Catania, Sicily), Christian Krohg (Norway) and others.
Although he painted many reflections, Paul CĂ©zanne’s are the most enigmatic, as they almost all have substantial anomalies according to optical principles.
Popular in ancient times, those in Ravenna inspired Klimt. Luc-Olivier Merson and Elihu Vedder created their own, Sichulski imitated them, and Signac used similar patches of paint.
When the centaur Nessus tries to abduct his wife, Hercules shoots him with a poisoned arrow. But Nessus gets his revenge when Hercules’ wife gives her husband a shirt impregnated with Nessus’ blood.
Well known for their fights and battles, Delacroix was fond of Chiron, Achilles tutor, but Pirithous and Hippodame regretted inviting them to their wedding feast.
Starting from Manet’s notorious painting of a picnic in 1863, socialising at mealtime became a popular theme in paintings that weren’t in the least bit Impressionist.
Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.
Pioneering painter of industry in the West Point foundry, a superb series of landscapes across the lakes of the Alps, then Professor and first Director of the School of Fine Arts at Yale University.
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