Journal of Art in Societyさんのイラストまとめ

20C Cornish painter Doris (“Dod”) Procter’s favourite subjects were women and girls, often in reflective poses, with emphasis on the effects of light ~ The Quiet Hour ■ Morning (voted Picture of the Year at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 1927) ■ Betty

18C artist Jean-Siméon Chardin’s emphasis on simplicity & scenes of everyday life had a major influence on modernists such as Cézanne, Matisse & even Lucian Freud (see link). Here’s his Peaches, Pears & Plums ■ The Little Schoolmistress ■ Self Portrait https://t.co/JbkAMWSPTW

130 years ago, Ferdinand Ongania, an antiquarian bookseller with a shop in St Mark’s Square, had a passion to record the architecture of his city. His beautiful photogravures survive to give us a haunting reminder of a seemingly tourist-free Venice (1890) https://t.co/7tAu8Z37Dc

Albrecht Dürer died almost 500 years ago, but his studies of animals and bugs live on ~ up close with a hare ■ a finely-observed stag beetle ■ and a stork with a sceptical eye

Winslow Homer’s experience of living at Prouts Neck on the wild Maine coast inspired his interest in painting dramatic seascapes. Here’s Carroll Berry’s engraving of Homer’s house/studio in 1937 ■ as it is today ■ and Homer’s view of the coast in 1896
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“He became my true master and it is to him that I owe the definitive training of my eyes”~ this is Monet talking about the Dutch painter Johan Jongkind. To compare, here’s Monet’s Meadow with Poplars (1872) and, at R, earlier works by Jongkind

British artist Henry Tonks depicts his distinctively-attired friend (and fellow war artist) John Singer Sargent. Together, they witnessed the shocking field of wounded, gas-blinded men that would inspire Sargent’s epic ‘Gassed’ (detail at R) https://t.co/MSegXpv7iZ

Early 20C Italian Futurist painter Giacomo Balla experimented with depictions of light, motion & colour ~ The Dynamism of a Dog ■ Street Light (with moon & electricity competing) ■ Speed of the Automobile. For more on Futurists see https://t.co/7bOlB32pJq

Back by popular demand, early 18C Dutch artist Jan van Huysum returns to show off some more of his meticulous flower studies

We don’t know who she was, just that she was about 10 & came from a wealthy family ~ but this Girl in a Blue Dress, with her engaging expression, lighting & attention to detail seems to directly speak to us over the centuries (Johannes Verspronck, 1641)