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Christopher Perkins’ (1891–1968) Taranaki was highly influential in the development of the regional style in New Zealand painting that was dominant from the 1930s to the 1950s. Perkins placed a dairy factory, which he saw as a sign of progress, in front of a sharply stylised mountain. The work was based on the hard-edged...
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Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...
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...
Janis Rozentāls...
‘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...
Hugo Simberg (1873 – 1917)...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905)...
A realist painter who often depicted his native NYC, Dinnerstein was a precursor to Bo Bartlett’s heavy-handed symbolism in the American Realist Movement....
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One of the 200 Japanese wood carvings Manet collected in his lifetime. The introduction of Japanese art to the west had a huge impact, it is said to be the influence of the impressionist movement in france.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1859-1924)...
Jacob Lawrence (American, b.1917, d.2000)...
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...
Sidney Sime (1865-1941).
The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the banjo....
