It has been claimed that she “gave up painting” after marrying her more famous husband in 1884. Did his best student really stop painting like that?
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He built his career from scratch three times, but today is known for his paintings of fashionable women. There is more to his art than that.
Did he just paint fashionable women in fashionable clothing, or was there more to this hugely successful artist?
Her paintings take you beyond the instant optical gratification of Impressionism, into a great painterly discourse between the inside and outside.
Conclusions: did he paint Impressions, and was he a member of the Impressionist group?
Japanese woodblock prints are usually termed ukiyo-e, but ukiyo originally meant ‘this world of sorrow and grief’. How did they get their name?
A noted critic and sculptor, a career painter, and an artist who became a local politician, with examples of their work.
In the late 1880s, several painters started to work in the rural area of Heidelberg, east of Melbourne, adopting a style which later became known as Australian Impressionism.
Whistler developed a unique style which had much in common with the Impressionists, anticipating several of the key features of Impressionism.
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