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Paintings of Henri-Edmond Cross 2: Water and light

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In the last decade of his career, he visited Venice twice and painted it extensively. He also turned more to watercolours.

August 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Henri-Edmond Cross 1: Dots and colour

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A pupil of Carol’s-Duran, he switched to Divisionism/Pointillism in 1891, when Georges Seurat died. Early paintings are gentle and delicate before he turned the chroma up.

August 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 8: Venice

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After a month in Venice he had amassed 200 watercolour studies which were to keep him busy for the next two years painting shimmering views of the city.

June 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir 10: 1911-1919

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Crippled by his arthritis, he couldn’t stop painting. Landscapes became more radical, and he painted more bathers. Some of Renoir’s last and most radical works.

November 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: Mimosa and memories, 1944-1947

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Paintings of exuberant brilliant yellow mimosa, bleak self-portraits, and his favourite views around Le Cannet from his final years.

August 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: Domestic Symphony, 1918-1920

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With the end of the war, his output increased significantly. A close look at the Tate’s ‘Bowl of Milk’, and Bonnard’s continuing independence.

July 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Nikolai Astrup: Dark Sunlight 3 – 1911-19

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After a visit to Berlin, his colours became more strident, and his brushstrokes looser. He also made many woodcuts, which influenced and informed his paintings.

March 9, 2017 General, Painting

Hesiod’s Brush, the paintings of Gustave Moreau: 12 For the museum

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Far from being a recluse, the last years saw him teaching avidly, painting major works, and transforming his house into a museum.

January 26, 2017 General, Painting

Book review and exhibition: Australia’s Impressionists, ed. Riopelle

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A unique opportunity to see the works of four of Australia’s most important painters, and to broaden understanding of Impressionism.

December 2, 2016 General, Painting

Art promotion by the Bloomsbury Group: 2. Clive Bell and Significant Form

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It was Clive Bell’s aesthetics which underpinned Roger Fry’s promotion of the Post-Impressionists. Here is what he wrote.

November 27, 2015 General, Painting

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