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Schikaneder

Paintings of drawn carts 1

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From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.

January 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Winter is Coming: Paintings of Fog

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Who’d want to paint much of their canvas dull, pale grey? If these paintings are anything to go by, many of the Impressionists

November 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Views 2

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Paintings of autumn from the early 20th century, by Jakub Schikaneder to Grant Wood.

October 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Views 1

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Paintings conveying the atmosphere of autumn, from Joos de Momper in the early 17th century, to Hawkins in about 1890,

October 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Skying 8: Post-Impressionism

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Paintings of the sky by Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Klimt, Cézanne, Schiele, Paul Nash and others.

September 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the week: Thanatos (Death)

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Rarely painted, particularly in classical form, until the 19th century, the Grim Reaper is based on Father Time, not Thanatos.

April 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Missing Mud of Winter 1

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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?

December 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Death on the Wing: Crows and ravens in paintings 2

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From Böcklin and Waterhouse to Vincent van Gogh and Egon Schiele, many 19th century artists used crows as a symbol.

November 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2018’s paintings and articles 1

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Review of paintings and related articles published here in the first half of 2018, starring Fuseli, Klimt, Liljefors, Sassoferrato, and Hodler.

December 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Fog: Pissarro to Ury

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With Monet’s grainstacks and fog on the River Thames, by the 20th century the effects of fog had become part of Western landscape painting.

November 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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