After 1900, he painted more landscapes, first of Morocco, then of the Spanish countryside.
Impressionism
Sorolla was not the only major painter in Spain around 1900. Here are some major works from Simonet, from 1887 to 1899.
An exhibition in Washington, Boston, and Venice, and three superb books about this master painter and Impressionist. And some of his paintings, of course.
Did he just paint fashionable women in fashionable clothing, or was there more to this hugely successful artist?
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
If you thought that Klimt was the only important Austrian painter of the 1800s, look here: more radical than even French artists.
He painted Paris, its highlife and lowlife, during the Belle Époque, but has been largely ignored by art historians.
Founding Prof at Yale’s School of Fine Arts, he pioneered painting heavy industry, produced a superb series of European landscapes, and more.
We should have taken heed of the Boaty McBoatface incident. Does the UK really want to leave Europe?
Every bit as radical as Cézanne, his paintings capture the countryside of a long lost era, with its horses and carts.
