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Nerdwriter did an excellent video on Sargent’s paintings...

One of the most exciting modern artists I have stumbled across since starting these essays. Obi is a Nigerian artist with impressionist and expressionist tendencies with beautiful execution and style. Here we see she also plays with framing and separation, the photographer’s left hand on a camera is separate from the main...

Henri Matisse often painted the same subject in versions that range from relatively realistic to more abstract or schematic. At times the transition from realism to abstraction could be enacted in a single canvas, as is the case with The Italian Woman, the first of many portraits Matisse painted of a professional Italian model...

Though a leading voice in the Abstract Expressionist movement and one of their rare women artists to achieve critical and financial success in her lifetime, Joan Mitchell painted in a manner subtly distinct from her Abstract Expressionist peers. Hers was an idiosyncratic style defined by a varied use of color and with a...

This brilliant and free evocation of an unknown young woman in evening dress is at the antipodes of the worldly or official portrait practiced by the painters accustomed to the Salon....

When he painted The Saint-Lazare Station, Monet had just left Argenteuil to settle in Paris. After several years of painting in the countryside, he turned to urban landscapes. At a time when the critics Duranty and Zola exhorted artists to paint their own times, Monet tried to diversify his sources of inspiration and longed to...

Even though each panel is smaller than two pieces of paper, one above the other (22.25 x 7.75), the level of detail is incredible - as is the source image (if you have the time to navigate there and zoom in, prepare for amazement)....

Darker than most of Matisse’s works - usually vibrant with color and movement. The piece was affected by a depression because he couldn’t support his family. His wife had to get a job. Like many painters, Matisse would only find success posthumously....

“Le Grand Cloisonné” (2017), driftwood, linen twine, and wallpaper, 120 x 90 x 5 centimeters

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/3486068...

Kabukidō Enkyō (歌舞伎堂 艶鏡, fl. c. 1796) was a Japanese artist who designed ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Nothing is known of Enkyō’s life, and only seven of his works are known, all of which are ōkubi yakusha-e, bust portrait prints of kabuki actors.