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This direct manner of painting helps explain the bold brushwork and intense scrutiny
With „The Skater,“ Stuart blazed a new path in British portraiture. Its details tell the story of skating in 18th-century Britain.
Grand manner portraits, which were popular at the time, did show subjects at full
Paul Sérusier was born in Paris, and signed on as a student at the Académie Julian—the largest private art academy in Paris—in 1884. In the summer and autumn of 1888 he traveled in Britanny, where he visited for several weeks the village of Pont-Aven.
They did not wish to capture the appearances of nature in a realistic manner, but
Balthasar van der Ast was born in Middelburg. The date of his birth is not recorded, but legal documents indicate that Balthasar reached the age of maturity (twenty-five) between June 30, 1618, and September 13, 1619.
painter Savery, Roelandt, Van der Ast began to paint in a softer, more atmospheric manner
Family of Saltimbanques is the most important painting Pablo Picasso made during his early career. For him, these wandering saltimbanques (acrobats, dancers, and jesters) stood for the melancholy of the neglected underclass of artists, a kind of extended family with whom he identified. Like them, the Spanish-born Picasso was impoverished during the first years he spent in Paris striving for recognition. The brooding Harlequin—in the diamond-printed costume, at far left—bears the face of the dark, intense young artist himself.
There’s no coherent, unified manner in the painting, which is one of the things
Celebrated by Malvasia as the creator and promoter of the new maniera moderna, Guido Reni (1575–1642) introduces the fourth age of painting: a period marked by an original and sometimes bold elaboration of the notion of artistic perfection developed by the Carracci and embodied more specifically by Ludovico’s “synthesis of styles.�
On the other hand, Malvasia balks at embracing Guido’s "last manner."
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Named for “the manner in which things are made,� Facture addresses aspects of
The buildings are predominantly green and yellow, arranged in a staggered manner
Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
Tugboats on the Seine is a brilliant example of Vlaminck’s most accomplished fauve manner
