Long used as a support for fine art painting in East Asia, fans made their way from Japan into French collections in the late 19th century, and Degas and Pissarro saw their potential.
Pissarro
Paintings starting with JMW Turner in 1844, through Monet in 1871, Winslow Homer, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Tom Roberts, Pissarro, and Childe Hassam.
After the Paris Commune, Pissarro returned to discover most of his life’s work had been destroyed, but he and Sisley continued to paint in Louveciennes and its surrounds.
In the summer of 1869, Renoir was living at his parents’ house in Louveciennes, and Monet was living near Bougival. Together they painted the works that set out the manifesto of Impressionism.
Matching views painted by Pissarro and Cézanne of the Côte des Boeufs, a rainbow, the village in winter snow, and Pissarro’s gradual change to Pointillism.
From Pissarro’s early realist landscapes of 1867, the landscapes of a forgotten Impressionist, to the first outdoor paintings of Paul Cézanne made alongside Pissarro’s easel.
How oil paint can be used to create crisp and blurred edges, and sfumato. Implications of paint drying in some of Monet’s paintings, including his Grainstack series.
Country folk lured by the promise of material goods and wealth, fine clothes and smart carriages, who end up working in coal mines and struggling to stave off poverty.
Flax for linseed oil, walnut too, Parsifal’s romp with Flowermaidens, a Spring Fairytale from Hans Thoma, the Malibu coast, and one of the last Divisionist landscapes.
From the Royal Parks in London at the turn of the 19th century, through the parks of Paris, Rome, Vienna, New York City and Brooklyn.
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