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.
van Rysselberghe
Paintings by Helen Allingham, Willard Metcalf, Pierre Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Nikolai Astrup, and others.
Technically challenging for painstaking Divisionist techniques, those who chose to depict reflections used studies to help, and Seurat was generally optically faithful. But the best of all was Théo van Rysselberghe.
New series describing and illustrating how reflections have been painted in European and American art, from the early Renaissance to the 20th century.
In the 20th century, those visiting the south of France claimed nude bathing was traditional, while the rest of Europe and the USA were still developing bathing costumes.
In the early years of the 20th century, Sorolla started painting well-dressed young ladies strolling along the beaches of his native València.
A small fishing village that drew several major painters from about 1892, where they depicted its boats, warmth, trees, light and bathers. From Paul Signac on.
Paintings from the late careers of Félix Vallotton, Robert Bevan, Nikolai Astrup, George Bellows, Théo van Rysselberghe, Pierre Bonnard and Lovis Corinth.
Second and concluding article, including paintings by van Gogh, Chase, Monet, Pissarro, CĂ©zanne and others.
Coastal landscapes from Claude in 1639, through visits to the island of Capri, to Étretat and Monet’s series, and Divisionists in the Midi.
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