Balanced explorations of the play of light inside rooms, and the glorious colours of the intense Norwegian summer.
Impressionism
Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.
He painted with the Danish Impressionists at Skagen, in St Ives, and above all in Hungary – and has been all but forgotten now.
His paintings move through Impressionism to a distinctive Post-Impressionism, with swirling brushstrokes, and more subtle colour.
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
Thanks to painstaking work in the Mouton-Rothschild Collection, a new artist is being added to the canon of Impressionists.
Was he really one of the most important French painters of the nineteenth century?
Homer’s painting was transformed during his stay in Cullercoats. Why did he go there, and what did it offer him?
A fuller account of one of the arch-enemies of the Impressionists. Was he so bad after all?
Some of the Impressionists did paint (possibly) narrative works. But they didn’t always work out.
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