From about 1900, he painted almost exclusively in pastel, finely realist works that rendered surface optical properties to perfection.
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Some important paintings from 1815-19, including two religious works with deep personal meaning. Goya’s paintings are now dominated by black.
How rendering of the surface texture of fabrics changed during the southern Renaissance, and new techniques were exported to the north.
Born two hundred years ago today, he’s now though to have played a major part in the birth of Impressionism, and Neo-Impressionism.
Considers what exactly changed in painting in the Renaissance, and when we can establish as those dates, compared with literature, for example.
He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.
Aphrodite fully clothed, and a polar bear on the ice of the Arctic – just two of the later paintings of this Victorian artist.
He became extremely popular, with his genre scenes containing animals, particularly dogs. A selection from the early years of his career.
Mud as painted in the Danish countryside, and in Norway. But the last word goes to war: both in the Franco-Prussian and First World Wars.
Mud was a common problem in the streets of cities, and on all the roads, tracks and paths of the country. Why isn’t it seen more in paintings before 1850?
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