After Courbet, the Great Wave influenced Bierstadt, Gauguin, Walter Crane, Henry Moret, Georges Lacombe, and became truly iconic.
Lacombe
A nocturne by Luce, Hokusai-inspired waves by Lacomb the Nabi sculptor, Moret’s coastal views, and two portraits by Elizabeth Nourse.
Its weather is often wild, with mountainous seas. Views of its rugged coast, seaweed harvesting, and religious pardons.
More leaf-peeping, from Tina Blau and Monet’s poplars on the River Epte, to Paul Nash’s eerie Wittenham Clumps under the moon’s last phase.
From the brilliant pioneer animal painter Paulus Potter to the short and intense star of Amedeo Modigliani, King Death shortened the art of far too many painters.
Beards on Father Time, river gods, God the Father, ancient mariners, and lots and lots of artists, especially the Nabis.
In the first article of this pair, I showed a selection of some of the finest paintings of […]
Short summary of their history, art, and their role in the evolution of painting in the twentieth century, with copious links to articles here.
Hosting Lord Byron’s Alpine Witch, as the birth canal for Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’, and an attempt by Courbet to return to the womb? The versatility of caves.
High-chroma, constructive strokes, realism typical of the mid-20th century, and ‘corn style’ using coalescent tiles of high-chroma paint – you couldn’t get further from being Nabi.
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