It’s not a colour at all, say some, while the Impressionists wanted to banish it from the palette. But throughout the history of painting, the blackest black has remained vital.
Renoir
His masterpiece is a prime example of Naturalism, but he was a close friend of Degas and Renoir, and a major patron and collector of Impressionism.
Introduced in about 1806, it was used by Turner, Friedrich, Delacroix, Corot, the Pre-Raphaelites, the Impressionists, and many others. With examples of those works.
We don’t know their names as well, but we know the faces and bodies of those who model for artists. They achieve some kind of immortality.
Shows a selection of her paintings completed up to 1925, several influenced by Cézanne and Cubism.
Now seen as the odd man out of the Impressionists, at the time he had great influence. Here are samples of the work of those he influenced.
Looking at paintings of women doing their laundry in a landscape view in historical context.
Putting Degas’ many paintings and drawings of the ballet and its dancers into context – here are contemporary paintings.
He painted many wonderful oil sketches and watercolours of other artists painting outdoors. Here are a few to enjoy.
Trying to elicit a specific taste seem over-ambitious, but why can’t great paintings at least make us feel peckish?
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