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Sorolla

Distant snowline: the coming of autumn in the mountains 2

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More wonderful paintings of snowlines on the Sierra Nevada, in the South Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps, and in Maine. Autumn has arrived, and winter’s coming close behind.

October 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 3: Homeless

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Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.

June 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The context of Anders Zorn’s paintings in Sweden and beyond

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One of the three great masters who took realist oil painting into the twentieth century: we commemorate the centenary of his death in August.

June 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Finale: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, 1

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Looking back at the art of the nineteenth century, there was a large section devoted to Impressionism, but acclaimed Symbolist and other paintings too.

June 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1919: War and Work

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John Singer Sargent’s ‘Gassed’ was probably the most important painting of the year, but wasn’t the only memorial to the millions who died.

December 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of lunch

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Paintings by Velázquez, Manet, Renoir, Sorolla, and others.

December 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Sorolla’s Naturalist paintings 2: Science and the sea

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In the late 1890s, Sorolla painted two works showing the new science and technology of medical histology, and more scenes on the beach.

July 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Sorolla’s Naturalist paintings 1: Fishermen and white slaves

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Fine naturalist paintings from this Spanish master, showing the hard lives of fishermen, a young woman arrested for killing her child, religious ceremony, and prostitution.

July 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 8 Outcome

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The influence and inheritance of Naturalism is hard to judge even now. Given the dramatic change in painting in the 20th century, its greatest inheritance may be in photography.

January 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Alhambra: 3 Landscapes 1886-1913

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A couple of local artists, plus the virtuoso oil sketches of Joaquín Sorolla, a watercolour by John Singer Sargent, and two brilliant works by Muñoz Degrain.

December 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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