His oils and pastels were rich in colour, full of flowers and light, and radical visions even by today’s standards.
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Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
A brilliant woman painter, spiritualist, pacifist, and feminist, this tells of her remarkable life, art, and narrative.
A major Symbolist painter, his favourite themes included death, Medusa, angels, and the book of Tobit.
Portraits and more of mysterious beauty and fascination. No quick thrills, but haunting images.
The first American symbolist, his beautiful paintings are rich in symbols and stories, and decorate the Library of Congress.
Damned by twentieth-century critic Clement Greenberg, his paintings showed classical narratives, with increasing amounts of action.
How the quest to reform history painting only confirms its traditional narrative tools.
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