Degas’ photos of women bathing, Gérôme supporting photography as a fine art, Pierre Bonnard’s snaps of Marthe, and the extreme realism of Ellen Altfest.
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Rivers, rather than their banks, have been an unusual theme in landscape painting. Examples from Daubigny’s series in northern France, the specialist Frits Thaulow, and many others.
Tulips to mark a stock market crash and recession, David’s lust for Bathsheba, his work as a sculptor, Pygmalion and Galatea, and a summary of his career.
Goya, Thomas Girtin, Tom Thomson, John Singer Sargent, Renoir, Eva Gonzalès and others painting anglers and those in pursuit of shellfish.
The hard road to realism: development and propagation of knowledge, how to apply it in paintings, and its benefit on visual art.
Two specialists in the sub-genre, John Godward and John Singer Sargent, show us how to chill out in their paintings.
More anglers caught with their rods and lines in paintings by Troyon, Corot, Hodler, Carl Larsson and a surprise catch from Tom Thomson.
Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?
His late career tackled his dislike of Impressionism, sculpture, photography as an art, and the depiction of truth – in several superb paintings.
As an avid photographer, how did he use his many photographs in his paintings? Was he just a copyist?
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