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Monet

Hard reality: 6 Reflections in the landscape

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Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.

May 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of eggs

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Long before they were turned into chocolate, they were coloured, and hunted on Easter Sunday. Paintings by Claude Monet, Diego Velázquez, and others.

April 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Broken up

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Masaccio’s 20-panel polyptych, Bosch’s triptych, and one of the most substantial paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Even Monet’s Grainstacks series.

March 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Bay of Biscay 1

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From the rough seas and rugged cliffs of Penmarc’h to Belle-Île, with Monet, Signac, Berthe Morisot and other artists.

January 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 23 Paintings of the First Impressionist Exhibition

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Fifteen images of paintings by twelve artists which were shown at the First Impressionist Exhibition present a more coherent overview. But history is capricious.

January 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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

Sunrise on Impressionism: 18 Frédéric Bazille

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Missing from the First Impressionist Exhibition were the paintings of this promising figurative Impressionist who had been killed in the Franco-Prussian War.

November 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 17 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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With Claude Monet and others, one of the originators of Impressionist landscape painting. Successful portraitist and figurative painter too.

November 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 16 Camille Pissarro

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He first suggested the Impressionist exhibitions, co-founded their collective, and wrote their charter. Yet he didn’t achieve commercial success until he was in his sixties.

November 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 14 Alfred Sisley

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Probably the only French Impressionist who died poorer than he was when he started painting, he showed five paintings at the First Impressionist Exhibition.

October 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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