Rendezvous in the Forest by Henri Rousseau https://www.nga.gov/artworks/53138-rendezvous-forest
Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los
Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Los
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
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While his figure paintings are better known, Renoir’s landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to the development of impressionism, most apparent here in his transcription of the effects of sunlight. Midday sun suffuses the panorama, its intensity heightening the artist’s palette and suppressing incidental detail to clarify the crowded scene.
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
is one of Avercamp’s masterpieces, his Winter Scene on a Frozen Canal in the Los
After learning the fundamentals of drawing and painting in his native Leiden, Rembrandt van Rijn went to Amsterdam in 1624 to study for six months with Pieter Lastman (1583–1633), a famous history painter. Upon completion of his training Rembrandt returned to Leiden.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
Hip-hop artist Jasiri X looks at Kerry James Marshall’s woodcut almost like he’s looking into a mirror. It captures the experience of a Black man: resilient but restrained from being his authentic self. Jasiri responds to the work through two songs that reflect on his internal struggle.
His family moves to California, to Los Angeles, in 1963, when he’s eight years
Giotto ’s explorations and innovations in art during the early 14th century developed, a full century later, into the Italian Renaissance. Besides making panel paintings, he executed many fresco cycles—the most famous at the Arena Chapel, Padua—and he also worked as an architect and sculptor.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
The composition of this Virgin and Child is loosely based on the Hodegetria , one of the more powerful and enduring icon types of the Orthodox Christian church. The Virgin gestures toward the child to show him as the “way� ( hodos in Greek), the source of salvation.
Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los
A leader of the impressionist movement — a central exhibitor and organizing force for several of their exhibitions between 1876 and 1882 — Gustave Caillebotte was also an avid gardener. Like his close friend Claude Monet, with whom he shared gardening expertise and exchanged tips, he created lush, vibrantly colored landscapes and translated them into paint on canvas.
Scharffenberger family of California, who lived with this work in their home near Los