Although he painted many reflections, Paul CĂ©zanne’s are the most enigmatic, as they almost all have substantial anomalies according to optical principles.
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Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.
Is it feasible to paint optically accurate reflections quickly in front of the motif? Examples from CamilleCorot, Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley demonstrate that it is.
Increasingly challenging reflections by Caillebotte, Martin Rico, Normann in the Norwegian fjords, specialist Frits Thaulow, and an essay in optics by Kazimierz Sichulski.
Accurate when on his home ground, Constable appears to have altered reflections for effect. Turner even more so, with frequent vertical exaggeration, but wonderful effects.
An overview of reflections in landscape paintings by van Eyck, DĂĽrer, Cuyp, Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Canaletto, and Claude-Joseph Vernet in 1771.
Introduction to the geometry of reflections on water, and a composite image to aid their analysis. How Turner altered some of the reflections he painted.
Unusual self-portraits painted using mirrors by Courbet, Corinth, Bonnard, Gentileschi, Peeters, and Velázquez.
New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
Hodler’s Parallelist paintings, and more than 30 of the paintings of Paul CĂ©zanne depart from the basic optical principles of reflections. Why?
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