Some of the most famous Impressionist paintings celebrated their role and their distinctive beauty, and how they show Mondrian becoming modern.
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Once widespread across Europe and many other lands, they used to grind all the grain into flour, provide power to sawmills, make paper and more.
Gates opened in time of war, entered by Christ in triumph, those of hell in Dante and Milton, separating lovers, and marking the start of an elopement.
Now known as one of the leading illustrators of children’s books, he was also an accomplished and recognised painter. Here are some narratives from his early career.
Early explorations in the landscapes of Aelbert Cuyp, tortoises from Brazil, the first dedicated animal painter in Paulus Potter, and a concert of birds by Melchior d’Hondecoeter.
Ancient paint made using glue as a binder loses chromatic intensity as it dries, fades readily over time, and forms a fragile paint layer. But it has been popular at times.
First Dante and Virgil have to negotiate the three-headed monster dog Cerberus, guarding Hell, then the stinking mud containing gluttons.
The harvest painted by Anna Ancher, Lhermitte, Adrian Stokes, Nikolai Astrup, John Linnell, Félix Vallotton, PS Krøyer, Gérôme, and others.
Cutting the grain crop, in paintings by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Samuel Palmer, John Linnell, Jean-François Millet, Volodymyr Orlovsky, Mykola Pymonenko and others.
Every painter should have a suit of armour hanging in their studio, and those of German Romantics, Pre-Raphaelites and others, of Don Quixote.
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