Considered a founding figure of the Hudson River school, a mid-nineteenth-century group of American landscape painters, Thomas Cole aimed to elevate landscape painting to an intellectual pursuit, or what he called “a higher style of landscape,” through its potential to convey moralistic narratives...
it is fascinating to compare and contrast the output of 20th-century and living artists from the region with the Orientalist art that preceded it a century and more earlier. The former, heartfelt expressions of painters and sculptors who grew up in countries as diverse as Iran, Egypt...
For the 19th-century Orientalists – European painters such as John Frederick Lewis and Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, as well as Deutsch – the scribe was a popular figure, perhaps rivalled only by harem odalisques and looming sentinels. The aristocratic Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey also completed...
Painters and Politics: The European Avant-Garde and Society, 1900-1925.Theda Shapiro. Elsevier,New York and Amsterdam, 1976. 341 pp.. illus. U.S.A. and Canada USS13.50: Dfl. 40.00: elsewhere USSI 5.95. Reviewed by Berel Lang* There is a thesis in this book. but little method: as ...
TheJoaquín Sorolla Museumprovides a comprehensive look at the work of one of Spain’s most celebrated Impressionist painters. It is located in Sorolla’s former home and studio in central Madrid. Sorolla (1863-1923) was a master of light and color, known for his sun-drenched beach scenes an...
Amedeo Modigliani was one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. With a unique poetical temperament, he created a special artistic style through the sculptor’s eyes. The two masters of arts, who were unconnected before, finally had an interaction that transcends the time and space in ...
However, both the painters of theAsh Can School and the latter realists were 【M4】 ___.still tied to 19th century or earlier styles,while the early modernists shared with the 【M5】 ___.international breakthroughs of the art ofthe 20th century...
Whether ground up as medicine or on display at 'unwrapping parties,' Egyptian mummies fascinated Europeans, giving rise to what's known as Egyptomania.
While Rauschenberg saw his artistic focus as running in the “opposite direction” to that of the Abstract Expressionists, he did find inspiration in the creative handling of paint by artists such as Willem de Kooning, whom Rauschenberg praised in 1965 as “one of the greatest painters in the...
As a curator of the Collection of Chinese Art in the National Gallery in Prague, I have been researching the origins of the outstanding collection of 20th century Chinese ink painting housed in this institution. I have become interested in the way the works of modern Chinese painters were ...