Some of the many major works from the 19th century, from Caspar David Friedrich, through Turner and Constable, to Paul Cézanne, and van Gogh’s sunflowers.
van Gogh
This is the time to get out and admire the blossom on the trees, with the aid of Samuel Palmer, Millais, Millet, Sisley, and above all Vincent van Gogh.
Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green.
First fully developed in the Dutch Golden Age, here are Constable’s storms, Turner’s vortices, Boudin’s textured dusk, ending in Paul Nash’s imagination.
Even the most humble wooden or stone bridge has a satisfying geometry about it that contrasts with natural forms without looking out of place.
Related optical effects that combine to give the impression of depth. Explored in Renaissance paintings, and some from the 19th century.
Ursa Major, often the only constellation people know today, the Milky Way, the Pleiades, and Sagittarius.
Its reputation promoted by Gauguin and Émile Bernard, the artist’s colony was in the avant garde with Paul Sérusier and remained popular into the 20th century.
the personification of vigilance, Mary Magdalen, in shadowplay, held by Florence Nightingale ‘the lady of the lamp’, and associated with overwork and tiredness.
Waiting the knight’s end, watching a sorceress, flying over a wheat field, or in front of a sleigh. Wherever they go they seem sinister.