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Silk and canvas: Japan and Europe in painting 2

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Japanese woodblock prints were influenced by European prints, in turn becoming popular with Impressionists, who attracted Japanese artists to study in Paris.

July 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Silk and canvas: Japan and Europe in painting 1

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From about 1550-1680, European painting influenced that in Japan. During 200 years of later isolation, Westernisation continued more slowly.

July 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The first American Symbolist painter Elihu Vedder 3

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His late paintings were a mixture of symbolism and classical myth. Prominent are murals and a mosaic in the Library of Congress.

May 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The first American Symbolist painter Elihu Vedder 2

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Mainly paintings of classical mythology, including Marsyas Enchanting the Hares, and several developed from his illustrations for The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

May 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 2

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More exquisite painted fans from Carl Larsson, Paul Gauguin, Anders Zorn, and the Australian Impressionist Charles Conder.

September 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 1

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Between 1874-79, Degas and Pissarro started painting fans, initially to relieve their poverty. Here’s the unknown history of fine art fan painting in Europe.

August 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Bicentenary of Gustave Courbet, a founding father of modern art

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A major influence of realism, leading to Naturalism, and on Impressionism, Courbet was one of those who paved the way for modern art.

June 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Helen Hyde, American Japoniste

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She lived mainly in Tokyo from 1899-1914, where she learned colour woodcut prints. A small selection of her wonderful work from there and Mexico.

May 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More than the Nabi Sculptor: Georges Lacombe

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Gauguin Post-Impressionistm, Nabism, Japonism, and finally Divisionist Post-Impressionism – not bad for someone known as a sculptor.

May 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: Pleasure and Patrons, 1905-1907

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Paintings of boats inspired by a cruise with the composer Ravel, optical play with mirrors, and four distinctive panels for his patron Misia’s apartment.

June 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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