Frederick McCubbin was an Australian artist within the Heidelberg School, a plein art movement that inspired artists to create large landscape paintings depicting the plight of Europeans living in the Australian bush. Bush Idyll is considered one of the finest paintings in the history of Australian ...
Depicting Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit, he made the set to celebrate their imminent marriage. The couple's expensive paintings have always been displayed as a duo rather than individually; many believe it should forever remain unseparated! Photo Credit: Via Louvre and Rijksmuseum The ...
He is perhaps best known for his painting The Death of General Wolfe (1770), which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771. Depicting the heroic death of an English general in battle against French forces in Canada, the painting was the first large-scale depiction of a contemporary ...
The inverse concept of depicting interior spaces, however, is a much more complex and intriguing phenomenon that is believed to have originated after theIndustrial Revolution. How and why were these exquisite palace interiors shown in paintings? Although many theories have been proposed as to the mo...
but it also allows them to transmit their values and ideas about the place that they are depicting. For example, American landscape painting in the early 19th century celebrated the patriotic ideals of the American Revolution by glorifying its industrial expansion into a mythical American wilderness...
Joseph FarquharsonDLRA(4 May 1846 – 15 April 1935) was a Scottish painter, chiefly oflandscapes, mostly in Scotland and very often including animals. He is most famous for his snowy winter landscapes, often featuring sheep and often depicting dawn or dusk. The unusual titles of many of Farq...
an iron ore was converted into the final assembly of the automobile. A new model of Ford Plant was built between 1917 and 1927 over approximately two square miles. Rather than depicting workers manufacturing cars, Sheeler tends to be interested in the function of the individual machines contained...
The arrival of the 20th century saw a revolution in art as artists freed themselves from depicting reality. Instead, they adopted a love of art for art’s sake. Artists such asVassily KandinskyandHilma af Klintdeclared that art can be simple abstract shapes, inspired by the natural world, bu...
One of J.M.W Turner’s most recognised and acclaimed works, ‘The Slave Ship’ is a beautiful yet deeply saddening work depicting the harsh realities of the time. At a glance, the painting seems ordinary, showing a seafaring ship caught in a storm. Its thin masts indicate that the vessel...
A trip to see the Guernica in New York — Pablo Picasso’s masterwork depicting the barbarity of the Spanish Civil War — hit him like a thunderclap: it showed Willem that you could communicate a profound feeling for a subject in a painting, portrait or landscape, without the subjects being...