New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
van Gogh
More influence in paintings by van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Paul Gauguin, the Nabis sculptor Georges Lacombe, Helen Hyde, and Colin Campbell Cooper.
How woodcut ukiyo-e prints took Europe by storm after the reached Paris in about 1856, and influenced Whistler, De Nittis, Vedder, Zorn, van Gogh and others.
Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt’s textured paint layers. Turner’s scratchings, and van Gogh’s textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail.
Some of the most famous Impressionist paintings celebrated their role and their distinctive beauty, and how they show Mondrian becoming modern.
Derived from the dull yellow-green of chromium oxide, it was widely used by Impressionists, and well into the 20th century. Less toxic, but an environmental hazard.
The first modern synthetic pigment, from 1704. Adopted by Canaletto, Hogarth and many others since, and still offered in many paint ranges.
First imported through Venice by 1300, it became more precious than gold until it could be made synthetically from 1830. The queen of pigments.
From dice shooters in a rough tavern, through Bastien-Lepage’s Little Chimneysweep, to poverty in Catania, and destitution in Paris.
With Frits Thaulow in Norway, van Gogh in Arles, the construction of what is now the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and what can happen a railway carriage.
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