wild about colour
Mountains at Collioure 1905 Andre Derain Derain's paintings are designed to make an impact. His generation of painters had grown...
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Apr 1, 2020
celebration of detail
Red Poppy IV Georgia O'Keeffe I love Georgia O'Keeffe's work. Sure, you would have needed to have undergone reconfiguring of the more...
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Mar 29, 2020
Tuneful.
The Striped Blouse 1895 Eduoard Vuillard This is the kind of painting which triggers so many reactions, you need to let them calm down...
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Mar 28, 2020
"Besotted by paint"
Byblos 2017 Gillian Ayres Some artists are simply heroic. Gillian Ayres went to study art at Camberwell College of Arts, but found the...
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Mar 27, 2020
en fleuri
Almond Tree in Blossom date uncertain Pierre Bonnard My aesthetics tutor would remind us after each tutorial in Spring "Go and look at...
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Mar 26, 2020
wistful
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. 1886 John Singer Sargent It would be easy to dismiss this offering from the much-travelled artist John...
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Mar 25, 2020
Raining colour
Azalea Garden 1956 Patrick Heron It has been suggested that Claude Monet never wanted people to stand at a distance from his huge water...
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Mar 25, 2020
A vaseful of beauty
Still Life 1663 Maria van Oosteryck During the Seventeenth Century there was a great fashion for still life paintings, most notably of...
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Mar 23, 2020
Never abandonned by joy.
The Triumph of Music Marc Chagall 1966 This delightful painting is a preparatory sketch for a huge mural created in the Metropolitan...
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