Taught in Ivan Aivazovsky’s studio in Crimea and the Imperial Academy in St Petersburg, he painted unusual nocturnes, including the River Dnipro.
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The incredible myth of Leda and the swan, the transformation of Phaëthon’s brother Cycnus, King Arthur, Hesiod, Swan Pie and more.
The King of Thrace who raped his sister-in-law, cut out her tongue, and imprisoned her in a remote cabin. Her revenge is brutal and unforgiving.
He trained in Paris from 1886, painting in the artists’ colony at Grez from 1890. He then returned to Japan, where he led the development of Western style, and Japanese Impressionism.
Some of the very few paintings that show what’s underwater, most usually a drowning woman like Shakespeare’s Ophelia.
Painter to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, she was a friend of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. But the Royal Academy refused her, because she was a woman.
After the First Impressionist exhibition, he concentrated on achieving success at the Salon, and Durand-Ruel represented him.
Two strategies illustrated: painting in the valley and de-emphasising the surrounding hills, or painting from above the valley, with the hills not visible.
One of the founding fathers of modern Icelandic painting, he trained in Copenhagen and painted landscapes in the early 20th century.
Between 1880 and 1886 he painted 5 different versions of ‘Island of the Dead’, which owes much to German Romanticism.
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