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In memoriam Léon Bonnat: Teacher

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The art of Thomas Eakins, Gustave Caillebotte, John Singer Sargent, Harriet Backer, Toulouse-Lautrec, Edvard Munch and others were enabled by Bonnat.

September 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Dust to dust: Paintings of funerals 2

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Response to Courbet’s ‘Burial at Ornans’, a curious work by Edvard Munch, and very disturbing thoughts about burial alive.

August 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Maids a-milking: Milkmaids in painting 2

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How to buy fresh milk in central London, what the Scythians lived on, and more. Paintings by Millet, Delacroix, Winslow Homer, and others.

May 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Crowded Cities: paintings of urban crowds 2

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From Naturalist paintings of Bastille Day in 1880 to rush hour in New York City, and crowds outside the Gare de l’Est in 1917.

September 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Caves 2: Views, Birth, and Fantasy

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Hosting Lord Byron’s Alpine Witch, as the birth canal for Thomas Cole’s ‘Voyage of Life’, and an attempt by Courbet to return to the womb? The versatility of caves.

July 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

All Out! Paintings of strikes

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Some superb and very different paintings of industrial unrest, an important subject for the Naturalist painters of the late 19th century.

April 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Strikes, Politics, and Zola’s ‘Germinal’: Paintings of Alfred Roll

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Miners on strike in the Nord-Pas de Calais coalfield in 1880, a painting which may well have inspired Émile Zola to write his most popular novel, ‘Germinal’.

March 14, 2018 General, Life, Painting
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