Start with genre paintings from the Dutch Golden Age, add Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’, Courbet and Millet’s social realism, Manet and Lhermitte and you’ve made Naturalism.
history of painting
After a conventional start with oils and watercolour, he experimented with pastels, using them with water, and applying them to monotypes. He also removed the drying oil from paints.
Leader’s Worcester, Constable’s several paintings of Salisbury, Canaletto’s Saint Paul’s in London, a Thanksgiving at St Paul’s, Bastien-Lepage and Le Sidaner.
How Thomas Girtin’s watercolours of British cathedrals matured from his first of Rochester when he was only 15, to Durham and Ripon Minster a decade later.
As a sign of those in domestic service, and the poor when working on the land, worn by those in the kitchen, even the men, and protecting their bodies when at work.
A spectrum of purposes and styles, inspired by Émile Zola’s experimental approach to novels, documenting ordinary people with objectivity, in a neutral realism.
Unusual self-portraits painted using mirrors by Courbet, Corinth, Bonnard, Gentileschi, Peeters, and Velázquez.
Although not unknown beforehand, these were patented in 1787, when the term was coined. Examples from before 1627 BCE to the end of the 19th century.
More fine views of this rugged island by Achenbach, Theodore Robinson, Susan Watkins, Konstantin Gorbatov, and others.
Views of its dramatic coastline, high cliffs, and natural rock arches, by Albert Bierstadt, Haseltine, John Singer Sargent, and others.
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