On the Beach, Trouville by Eugène Boudin https://www.nga.gov/artworks/46480-beach-trouville
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This bold composition reveals the influence of the flat, patterned surfaces, simplified color, and unusual angles of Japanese prints, which enjoyed a huge vogue in Paris in the late 1800s. The dark figure of the man compresses the picture onto the flat plane of the canvas, and the horizon is pushed to the top, collapsing a sense of distance.
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Information on this painting can be found in the Gallery publication American Paintings of the Eighteenth Century , pages 265-266, 268-270, and 275-277, which is available as a free PDF https://www.nga.gov/content/dam/ngaweb/research/publications/pdfs/american-paintings-18th-century.pdf
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Are artists sinners or saints? Gauguin paints himself as both.
(shown only in Washington in 2011).
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With this monumental painting, Samuel F. B.
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Joseph Mallord William Turner excelled at capturing the beauty and mysteries of light. Cool, white moonlight contrasts with warm, yellow and orange firelight.
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