Balanced explorations of the play of light inside rooms, and the glorious colours of the intense Norwegian summer.
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We now associate Valkyries with Wagner and the Vietnam War. They actually come from Norse myth, which Arbo specialised in.
Despite difficulties over attribution and other mysteries, he was key to the development of the Venetian style.
We know almost nothing about his life, and very few works can be robustly attributed to his hand. But he was one of the most important artists in history.
Several have had a go at telling this story – Titian, Kauffman, Ricci, Delacroix, and Denis. Do their paintings work, though?
Rural naturalist, Impressionist, and Pre-Raphaelite styles in portraits, landscapes, genre, and religious paintings: that is versatility.
He painted with the Danish Impressionists at Skagen, in St Ives, and above all in Hungary – and has been all but forgotten now.
A Richard Strauss opera, a classical Greek myth, and a painting. Do they tell the same story, and how?
His paintings move through Impressionism to a distinctive Post-Impressionism, with swirling brushstrokes, and more subtle colour.
He worked his way from rural naturalism, through Impressionism, to a distinctive Post-Impressionism.
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