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Painting on natural linen using inks, tea, graphite charcoal, fluorescent acrylic paint and gold ink....

Ethel Sands (1873–1962)...

Francisco Josè De Goya y Lucientes was a Spanish romantics painter and printmaker and was considered one of the most important Spanish artists of the late 18th and early 19th century. The Witches’ Sabbath is 1 of 14 paintings known as the black paintings, the most famouse of which is known as “Saturn devouring his son”,...

After staying in the south of France, in Arles, and then at the psychiatric hospital in Saint-Rémy de Provence, Vincent Van Gogh settled in Auvers-sur-Oise, a village in the outskirts of Paris. His brother Théo, concerned with his health, incited him to see the Doctor Gachet, himself a painter and a friend of numerous artists,...

The London Houses of Parliament crop up regularly in Monet’s work in 1900. At first the artist observed them from the terrace of St Thomas Hospital, on the opposite bank, near Westminster Bridge. Monet’s London production, which includes views of Charing Cross bridge and Waterloo bridge, is in fact dominated by variations in...

‘My biomorphic fiber wall hangings are inspired by the lines and patterns of microscopic/cellular imagery which I find visually and metaphorically rich. All changes in essence happen on that infinitesimal level and result in the world we experience. My work is a kind of invented biology zooming in on that fundamental nature of...

Sidney Sime (1865-1941).

Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf. In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official...

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MANY PROGRESSIVE mid-nineteenth-century artists, including Gustave Courbet, felt it was dishonest to paint things that could not be observed at first hand: for example, angels with wings. In fact, “Religious painting has disappeared,” pronounced one critic of the Salon of 1857. Not surprisingly, Manet’s The Dead Christ,...

Efraín Enrique Recinos (born may 15, 1928 — died october 2, 2011)...