It is time to tackle a proper hypertext project using Storyspace 3, and concerning the First Impressionist Exhibition.
history of painting
Did the Impressionists invent plein air painting? And was Impressionism dependent on the supply of oil paints in tubes?
Why was Vermeer forgotten, or van Gogh ignored, or Western-style painting in Japan suppressed?
Ask which were the first landscape paintings in Western art, and most would suggest works of Dürer, Albrecht Altdorfer, or Joachim Patinir. But they were actually very late compared to frescoes of the Cycladic civilisation, some three millenia before.
“The Cambridge History of Painting in the Classical World” edited by JJ Pollitt Cambridge, March/April 2015 Hardback, 22.5 […]
A short overview of each of the eleven painters and paintings featured so far in the series ‘Favourite Paintings’, forming a concise history of painting from 1400 to 1914.
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