Humans have lived with trees since our origins, and trees feature in many paintings. This explains the importance of sketching them from life, and shows examples of different species and contrasting artists from Rubens and van Ruisdael to van Gogh and CĂ©zanne.
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Second and concluding article, including paintings by van Gogh, Chase, Monet, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne and others.
The first of two articles about painting trees, featuring Rubens, Poussin, Gainsborough, Constable, Corot and others.
More paintings of cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Modigliani, and Gustav Klimt.
In the more southern parts of Europe, the tree most strongly associated with churchyards and graveyards, representing grief.
In the first article of this pair, I showed a selection of some of the finest paintings of […]
Now is the time for all landscape artists to head for the woods and forests, in the northern […]
In her final years, she concentrated on her writing. But her painting continued to innovate, and she produced some of her finest work, shown here.
She started with sculptured solids which then broke into swirling fluids. Then she patterned and structured using brushstrokes. More marvellous paintings.
She wasn’t a late developer at all: for over ten years her work was shunned. Then in 1924, this started to change, as did her painting.
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