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Arnold Böcklin. Part 1 – early years and landscape painting
Self Portrait by Arnold Bocklin (1862) Paintings can elicit all kinds of feelings from the observer. Some of the realist and critical realist paintings elicit a feeling of sadness and guilt. Some...
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Arnold Böcklin. Part 2 – Die Toteninsel
Self Portrait by Arnold Böcklin (1885) As I said in my previous blog there was a distinct change in the subject and style of Böcklin’s art in the middle of the nineteenth century. Gone were the...
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Arnold Böcklin. Part 3 – The latter years. Portraiture and Symbolism
Photo of Arnold Böcklin (1900) aged 73 In my final part of the Arnold Böcklin story I want to look at his portraiture and some of his more evocative Symbolist works. He completed many self portraits,...
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Balthus. Part 1. Mitsou and the King of the Cats
Balthus aged 88 In my next few blogs, I am looking at the life and art of the French born painter Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, more simply known as Balthus. Some of his artwork shocked the world and...
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Balthus – Part 2 – Young girls and controversy
Self Portrait by Balthus (1940) In my second part of my look at the life and works of Balthus I am going concentrate on his depiction of pubescent girls which were to shock both the public and critics...
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Balthus. Part 3 – Antoinette de Watteville and exile
Antoinette de Watteville and Balthus (1935) This is the third part of my blog, looking at the life of Balthazar Klossowski (Balthus) and I want to look at his first true love, his first wife Antoinette...
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Balthus. Part 4. Setsuko and the latter days
The two sons of Balthus, Stanislaus and Thadée, edited a book in which they put together letters that their father had written. The book was entitled Correspondance amoureuse avec Antoinette de...
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Howard Terpning – the painter of the Native Americans
Self portrait by Howard Terpning After four blogs featuring the French painter Balthus, which looked at some of his controversial paintings, I thought I would present you with a less contentious...
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Federico Zandomeneghi – the Italian Impressionist
Lesendes Mädchen (Girl reading) by Federico Zandomeneghi (c.1900) When I was in Germany, just before Christmas, I bought myself a desk calendar which gave you a new painting every day. I was...
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Félix Vallotton. Part 1- The early years and portraiture
Self portrait by Félix Vallotton (1897) The artist whose paintings I am looking at in this blog is the Swiss-born artist and printmaker Félix Edouard Vallotton. Vallatton was born in Lausanne, on the...
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Félix Vallatton. Part 2. The Nabis, woodcuts and the “dreadful nudes”
Self-portrait with the dressing gown by Félix Vallotton (1914) During the 1890’s Vallotton, besides painting and writing art criticism, spent much of his time working with woodcuts. The woodcuts he...
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Alfred Jacob Miller and the Rendezvous
Self Portrait by Alfred Miller (c.1850) It is often strange that a chance meeting or a chance happening can affect one’s life but for my featured artist today his life was changed when he met a man who...
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Maurice Denis. Part 1 – Les Nabis
Self-Portrait with his Family in Front of Their House by Maurice Denis (1916) Remember that a painting – before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote – is essentially a flat surface...
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Maurice Denis. Part 2 – Religion and his wife, Marthe
Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen by Maurice Denis The year 1890 was the year Maurice Denis began to fall in love. It was in this year that he met Marthe Meurier, a musician. He had started to...
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Samuel Palmer Part 1. The Early years, portraiture and the rural idyll
The Prospect by Samuel Palmer (1881) My featured artist today is one of the great English landscape painters, draughtsmen and etcher of the nineteenth century. He was a major player in the art of...
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Samuel Palmer. Part 2 The Shoreham Ancients, William Blake and later life
Samuel Palmer by George Richardson (1829) Samuel Palmer was seventeen years old when he met the painter John Linnell and they would remain friends for life, a period stretching almost sixty years,...
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Part 1. Early life
Self Portrait by Christoffer Eckersberg (1811) Let me start this blog with a question. When you look around a large art gallery how long do you stand before each painting? Is it just a cursory glance...
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Part 2 – Rome (1813 – 1816)
C.W.Eckersberg by Christian Albrecht Jensen (1832) In my last blog I talked about Christoffer Eckersberg travelling to Paris in 1810 where he studied under the tutelage of the French painter,...
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Part 3. Patrons and portraiture
In May 1816, Christoffer Eckersberg left Rome and headed home to Copenhagen. During his homeward journey he stopped off at Dresden where he met up with the German Romantic painter, Casper David...
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Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg. Part 4. Between the Nude and the Naked
Portrait of C.W. Eckersberg by Johna Vilhelm Gertner (1850)(83 x 59 cms)Det Kongelige Akademi For De Skønne Kunster, Copenhagen If we remark on how we enjoy the beauty of landscape paintings or admire...
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