Among the greatest challenges in painting, cast shadows aren’t always correct. Examples from Masolino, Canaletto, Prendergast, Ravilious, Cézanne and Seurat.
Prendergast
A giant roc’s egg, a Punch and Judy show, a train of camels, emigrants leaving the Scottish highlands, a massive canon, and a firing squad.
Paintings by Blechen, Brendekilde, Tina Blau, William Merritt Chase and Prendergast, of the Villa Borghese, the Prater, Central Park and Prospect Park.
Paintings by West, Linnell, De Nittis, Fanner, Maitland, Manet, Menzel, Prendergast and Pissarro, of London’s Royal Parks, and the Tuileries in Paris.
From earliest ascents in hot air balloons from 1783 onwards, their role in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, to the first airships and Wright style aircraft.
In narrative, including Degas’ ‘Waiting’, as a sign of wind, as an arc of colour, or simply to tell the viewer that it’s raining.
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.
Paintings by Maurice Prendergast, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, and others of these popular gardens in the centre of Paris.
The origin of werewolves, early psychiatry, colourful Venice, a coast of foreboding, a brilliant plein air nocturne, London’s best paintings, visual truth, and more.
Maurice Prendergast,Henri-Edmond Cross, Martín Rico, Walter Sickert, John Singer Sargent, and others paint the canals.
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