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Book review: The Work of Art, Anthea Callen

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This book looks at the type of painting which was central to Impressionism – the plein air landscape – and traces its development from inception by Desportes in the latter years of the seventeenth century, through the Barbizon School, to its peak in the late nineteenth century.

April 29, 2015 General, Painting

Stag-head Horse Chestnut, Spring: first plein air of the season

The plein air painting season has at last got going here, with fine, warm, and very sunny weather. […]

April 15, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Favourite Paintings 17: Camille Corot, View of Rome: Castel Sant’Angelo, 1826-7

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A superb plein air painting of this scene on the River Tiber is part of the foundation that Corot laid for Impressionism.

April 6, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 8: Berthe Morisot, La Lecture (Reading), 1888

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This Impressionist essay on light, colour, and tranquillity features vivacious brush work; in taking art into everyday family life, it heralds art for all.

February 25, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 7: Camille Pissarro, Setting Sun and Fog, Éragny, 1891

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A simply golden landscape at sunset, by the central figure in Impressionism and father of Post-Impressionism.

February 23, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 5: Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Thomas Jones, Plein Air, c 1782

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Two modest and simple landscapes, some of the first painted outdoors or ‘plein air’ using oil paints, which paved the way for Constable, Turner, and the Impressionists.

February 18, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 2: Albrecht Dürer, The Willow Mill, 1498 or after 1506

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This watercolour landscape would not look out of place alongside the works of Turner and other masters 300 years later. It is one of many pioneering works by the versatile genius of the Northern Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer.

February 10, 2015 Painting

Truth in (landscape) painting 4

Cézanne’s final style, featuring his characteristic ‘constructive stroke’ with patches of colour built from groups of parallel brushstrokes, […]

February 2, 2015 Painting

Truth in (landscape) painting 3

Paul Cézanne has been repeatedly described as the ‘father’ of several of the major movements in painting which […]

January 31, 2015 Painting

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