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Jongkind

Sunrise on Impressionism: 22 Claude Monet

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This brisk oil sketch of fog and the rising sun in Monet’s home port of Le Havre lent its name to that for the whole movement.

January 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Let there be light: 1 Painting by gaslight

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From the burning brands and oil lamps of the Greeks and Romans, to the soft light of candles, then in the 19th century came gaslights.

October 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 12 Johan Barthold Jongkind

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Although invited to show his paintings at the First Impressionist Exhibition, he declined, and has since been excluded from the list of Impressionists, and forgotten.

October 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend on the River Seine in paintings: 1 Saint-Mammès to La Grande Jatte

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Superb 19th and early 20th century landscape paintings of the River Seine from Sisley country through the centre of Paris to La Grande Jatte.

August 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 1 Introduction

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On 15 April 1874, thirty artists showed 165 works in an empty photographer’s studio in Paris. One of their paintings led to their name: Impressionists.

July 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2021’s paintings and articles 1

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In case you missed or have forgotten them: some of the highlights of articles on paintings published here from Jan to June last year.

December 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 14 Nocturnes

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Technically very challenging, most are painted in the studio, but some are quite unreal, and others suffer from the moon illusion.

November 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Channel Coasts: 2 France

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A journey along the coast of northern France, starting with Turner at Calais Pier, and ending in vivid colour on Ushant/Ouessant – in wonderful paintings.

August 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Étretat, cradle of Impressionism 1 Before 1880

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Between Le Havre and Fécamp on the north coast of France is a spectacular chalk cliff. Here’s the story and its paintings prior to its fame.

January 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Skying 6: Pre-Impressionism

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While others painted near Rome, a slow revolution burned in the north, with Isabey, Daubigny, and most of all Jongkind and Boudin.

August 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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