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.
Renoir
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?
Music and musicians have been very popular themes for paintings since before the Renaissance. How successful are they in evoking our auditory imaginations?
His remarkable paintings of figures in landscapes were well received at the Salons. Then came the Franco-Prussian War, and his death after just 8 years of painting.
He was famously and tragically killed in 1870, but how well do you know his paintings?
