Having done proper homage to Monet in my last post, let me turn to my two favorites among the impressionist group: Manet and Degas. While Monets accomplishment wins my highest […]
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One of the cornerstones of the artistic revolution wrought by the impressionist painters of the late 19th century was the deliberate juxtaposition of complementary colors.
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In my first two posts in this series, I discussed my two favorite post-impressionist artists: Cezanne and Van Gogh. I should now step back a generation to the impressionists themselves, […]
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Goya and Manet One of the great contributions that Manet made to the development of the art of the last 150 years is to promote the idea that art is […]
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In my first “Favorite Artists” blog post on Cezanne I touched on Van Gogh, making a comparison between self-portraits by the two artists. Since Van Gogh is also a big […]
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Industrialization and Ambivalence in 19th Century Art Nineteenth century attitudes toward the juggernaut of industrial and technological progress, as reflected in the arts, is a vast subject, not to be […]
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The reconciliation of surface and solid form I will begin my blog series on favorite artists with Cezanne because, on balance, he is my #1 favorite. Really being turned on […]
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The Varieties of English Naturalism When we think of the naturalistic tradition in English landscape painting at the beginning of the 19th century we immediately think of the work of […]
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Finding Needles in the Haystack of Nature When working from nature on a two-dimensional surface, it is fair to say that the translation of three dimensions to two is the […]
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The period of the French revolution was one when painting and theater had an extraordinary influence on the thoughts and feelings of contemporaries.
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