The major problems in oil painting had been solved before the van Eycks. One was a reliable supply of solvent/diluent spirits.
van Gogh
Known only to the French, his pointillism, Symbolism, and bold use of colour bring startling results.
Railways and painting have been intertwined since 1844. Turner, Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others show how.
An unusually moral story of the classical gods; superb paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt, Elsheimer, and others.
Was he really one of the most important French painters of the nineteenth century?
Japanese woodblock prints are usually termed ukiyo-e, but ukiyo originally meant ‘this world of sorrow and grief’. How did they get their name?
An innovator and major influence in the Impressionist movement, he seems to have been judged on his poorer works, not these, his best paintings.
Over a thousand visitors have looked at Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night over the Rhône. Other popular articles cover relatively unknown artists.
Marks made by the brush and knife serve different purposes from the late nineteenth century. They also beg some fascinating questions.
In addition to painting one of the major Neo-Impressionist masterpieces showing poplar trees, he built a series of Post-Impressionist pines-beach-bathers of distinction.
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