…in Normandy Brittany Devon Cornwall Essex & northwest Scotland inspired by Courbet using thick paint layers to capture power of natural forces Published book Etching Techniques (1976)
… impersonal "masculine" world Everything could be a work of art Signature works inc: Job Cigarette Papers (1896) The Seasons (1896) Snake Bracelet with Ring (1899) Le Pater (1899) Slavia (1908) The Slavs in Their Original Homeland (1912) & Stained Glass Window (1931)
Born #onthisday1920 Arthur Boyd AC OBE leading Australian mid-late 20th century #painter Master at manipulating elements work ranges from #Impressionist Australian #landscapes to stark #Expressionist figures Several famous works set Biblical stories against Australian landscape
… dynamic vibrant #portraits & #landscapes President Berlin Secession (1915–25) Produced cycle of casual etchings of family in country home Subjects embraced #nudes & biblical scenes #lithography & drypoint main #etching techniques Third Reich condemned work as degenerate art
Born #onthisday1890 Giorgio Morandi #historyofart Italian #painter #printmaker specializing in #still_life noted for tonal subtlety & simple subjects limited mainly to vases bottles bowls flowers & landscapes Painstakingly explored puzzles of art looking for structure & order …
Born #onthisday1723 Joshua Reynolds English #portraitpainter & one of major European painters of 18th century promoted Grand style of portraiture which idealized the imperfect Founder & first president of Royal Academy of Arts Knighted by George III in 1769.
… Syntax in Search of the Picturesque followed in 1820 by Dr Syntax in Search of Consolation & ‘Third Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of a Wife (1821) English Dance of Death (1814–16) Dance of Life (1817) Illustrated Smollett Goldsmith & Sterne
Born #onthisday1756 Thomas Rowlandson #historyofart English popular #caricaturist of social life John Bull Smollett Goldsmith Sterne #illustrator Primarily employed by art publisher Rudolph Ackermann ‘The Schoolmaster's Tour’ (1809) most popular of Rowlandson’s works Tour of Dr…
Signature works inc: Frieda and Diego Rivera (1931) My Grandparents, My Parents, and I (Family Tree) (1936) Fulang-Chang and I (1937) The Two Fridas (1939) Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird (1940) Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair (1940) & Weeping Coconuts (1951)
Born #onthisday1887 Marc Chagall #historyofart prolific Russian-French early #modernist #painter #illustrator #ceramics #printmaker #stainedglass Associated with several significant artistic styles creating majestic works in artistic mediums spanning #painting in oil & gouache…