How to distinguish sweet from horse chestnuts in paintings from Sisley, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne, Carl Larsson, Vincent van Gogh, Egon Schiele and others. And all about conkers.
van Gogh
As a member of the Salon jury, he ensured the young Impressionists were accepted. He led the way in painting fruit trees in blossom, and a series of innovative nocturnes.
His increasingly sketchy landscapes in the 1850s were well received at the Salon, as he pioneered painting riverbanks from his studio boat.
The most characteristic tree of the north coast of the Mediterranean, it has long been associated with cemeteries and other places of grief.
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.
Paintings by Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Alfred Sisley, Vincent van Gogh. Carl Larsson, SĂ©rusier, LA Ring and others.
Daughter of Jules Breton, a precocious artist who painted mothers and their children, and the fisher folk of the Opal Coast between Calais and Boulogne, and inspired Vincent van Gogh.
New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
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.
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