From the snowy landscape of Brueghel’s Hunters to Monet’s Magpie, with Pissarro, Signac, Caillebotte and others.
Signac
Views of France, from the island of Groix in the north-west, to Saint-Tropez in the south. By Signac, Bonnard, Vallotton, van Rysselberghe, and others.
Shackles of the night, in a well, as a rope ladder how Romeo meets Juliet, trussing up a robber, or hanging John Brown, the abolitionist.
The changing colours of trees and their leaves, celebrated in paintings from Paulus Potter in 1652 to Paul Signac in 1903.
From the calm of Vernet’s Italian coast, through Heligoland, to Monet at Honfleur, and the Straits of Bosporus.
How truth is associated with a well, where Jesus spoke with a Samaritan woman, where to dispose of a rapist, and one of Paul Signac’s less successful paintings.
From Renoir in 1881 through multiple Impressonists to Monet in 1908, more views of Piazza San Marco in Venice.
Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.
After a promisingly Realist start at the age of just 17, he progressed through Impressionist style and became a Divisionist in 1887-88.
Milliners trimmed and sold hats to customers, which appeared to be more rewarding, and the chance to wear the latest fashions.
The Eclectic Light Company 