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Ukrainian painters: Marie Bashkirtseff

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Born near Chuhuiv, she settled in Paris where she trained and rose to success as Jules Bastien-Lepage’s protege, then died at the age of 25.

January 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 11: Sorolla and Zorn

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In Spain, Sorolla was first Naturalist, then his style loosened to resemble that of Sargent; Zorn in Sweden painted early detailed watercolours before loosening up in oils.

June 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 7 Technology

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Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.

January 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 6 Heroes of science

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Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.

January 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 18 Towards a history

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Initiated by Whistler from 1860, it became popular with artists returning from training in Paris in the 1880s, then Sargent, Sickert, and teachers Tonks and Clausen.

November 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 15 Henry Herbert La Thangue

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When he returned from training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1886, he painted en plein air in an Impressionist style.

November 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Jules Bastien-Lepage’s Annunciation to the Shepherds

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Submitted for the final round of the Prix de Rome in 1875, the jury rejected it on a trumped-up technicality. The effect was to change the history of painting.

August 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 3 The New English Art Club

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In the early 1880s, several young British artists returned from training Paris, and in 1886 formed a new club as an alternative to the Royal Society.

August 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Down on the farm: paintings of farmyards 2

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From 1880, Naturalism showed rural deprivation, but active farmyards with plenty of livestock. Then in the 20th century came the tractor.

May 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Luc-Olivier Merson, storyteller in paint

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Highly original visual stories, of the Soldier of Marathon, Saint Francis of Assisi and the Wolf of Agubbio, plus illustrations for ‘Notre Dame de Paris’.

November 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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