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• The Pre-Impressionists: Camille Corot

  

  Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot was born in Paris in 1796; he died in Paris in 1875, the year after the First Impressionist Exhibition. Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Charles Jacque and Léon Jacque

  

  Hello everyone. I'm not intending to revive this blog, as I simply don't have the time, but I have found a few posts that are so nearly complete that it seems... Read more

  Posted on 20 June 2019 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Jacob Balgley, Rue à JérusalemEtchingHow Many of Us Have ...

  

  Jacob Balgley, Rue à JérusalemEtchingHow many of us have ever heard of Jacob Balgley, a direct contemporary of Marc Chagall? Not me, until I acquired a copy of... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2018 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Paul Huet

  

  Paul Huet was born in Paris in 1803. was a pupil of Antoine-Jean Gros and Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, and a friend and associate of Delacroix and Bonington. Read more

  Posted on 30 June 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• New Book on Emma Bormann

  

  I would like to alert my readers to a new book on the neglected Austrian Expressionist artist Emma Bormann (1887-1974), by her grandson Andreas Johns, The Art o... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Charles-Francois Daubigny

  

  Charles-François Daubigny was born in Paris in 1817. One of the leading artists of the Barbizon School, Daubigny is a significant fore-runner of Impressionism. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Entartete Kunst: Degenerate Art

  

  Starting from 1905 and working up to a crescendo in the 1920s, German art saw an incredible flowering of brilliance in the early decades of the last century. Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2017 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Vision of the End: Simon Segal's Apocalypse

  

  The Book of Revelation (L'Apocalypse selon Saint Jean) is almost too rich in imagery for artistic interpretation, which hasn't stopped artists from trying! One... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Ellsworth Kelly 1933-2015

  

  The death of Ellsworth Kelly on 27 December 2015 was perhaps not a surprise - he had been ill for some time with pulmonary disease - but it still comes as a rea... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Unarticulated Cry of Light: The Art of Sonia Delaunay

  

  Sonia Delaunay was born Sara Stern in 1885 in Odessa in Ukraine, into a relatively-poor Jewish family. At the age of 5 she was adopted by a wealthy uncle,... Read more

  Posted on 04 May 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Two Lithuanian Modernists: Vincas Kisarauskas and Saule Kisarauskiene

  

  When Vincas Kisarauskas and Saulė Aleškevičiūtė met while studying at the Lithuanian Art Institute in Vilnius in the late 1950s they forged a powerful personal... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Social Media: Twitter and Facebook

  

  This is just to alert my readers to the fact that I have taken the plunge into the world of social media, and set up Twitter and Facebook accounts for Idbury... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Winter: an Etching by Louis Graf Sparre

  

  The aristocratic Swedish artist Count Pehr Louis Sparre, commonly referred to in German as Louis Graf Sparre (Graf meaning Count), was born in Gravellona... Read more

  Posted on 23 January 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• War and the Pity of War: Kathe Kollwitz

  

  I've posted before about the German Expressionist artist Käthe Kollwitz, so I'll not rehearse all my previous thoughts again: you can read them here. Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2015 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• An Obscure English Woodcut Artist: Felix Henry Eames

  

  I offer the robust woodcut A Breton Déjeuner by F. H. Eames to my readers with all my best wishes for a happy and healthy 2015. May your tables overflow with... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• A Major Artist in a Minor Field: the Wood Engravings of Gwen Raverat

  

  I suppose I've been aware of Gwen Raverat's wood engravings for most of my life, though without ever knowing how to pronounce her name: the final "t" is... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• Rilke and Slevogt: The Panther

  

  As soon as I saw this etching by Max Slevogt of a black panther, I thought of Rainer Maria Rilke's 1902 or 1903 poem Der Panther, written as a response to... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Jules Bastien-Lepage

  

  Jules Bastien-Lepage was born in Damvillers, Meuse in 1848. After studying under Cabanel at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Bastien-Lepage became a... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Eugene Boudin

  

  Eugène Boudin actually took part in the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, but he has never been regarded as one of the Impressionists. Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE

• The Pre-Impressionists: Adolphe Appian

  

  I intend this post to be first in a short series about the important fore-runners or precursors of Impressionism. Although the first Impressionist exhibition... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2014 ART & DESIGN, CULTURE