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Ferdinand du Puigaudeau | Neo-Impressionist painter

French painter Ferdinand Loyen du Puigaudeau (1864-1896) is often known for his mystical scenes of processions and carnivals around Pont Aven and by his association with the Gauguin and the Pont Aven School.
Still, after Gauguin moved on to the Pacific and many of the other artists of the group to Paris, Puigaudeau remained on the coast, moving an estate called Kervaudu at Le Croisic, near the mouth of the Loire.
Once there, he turned his attention to the beautiful landscape of the region: coastal cliffs with twisting fig trees, flowering fields dotted with small villages.


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Edgar Degas | Repasseuses / Le Stiratrici, 1884-1886


Degas often made portraits of his family and friends but he was also an attentive observer of the working world in millinery workshops or laundries.
Only Daumier before him had taken an interest in washerwoman, who became one of Degas's favorite subjects between 1869-1895.
At first he painted single figures seen against the light, picked out sharply against the white linen.
Then, about 1884-1886, he dwelled more heavily on the subject, this time depicting two women in a laundry.

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Albert de Belleroche | Painter of Belle Époque

Count Albert Gustavus de Belleroche (1864-1944), also known as Albert Belleroche, was a Welsh painter and lithographer, who lived most of his childhood and his adulthood in Paris and England.
He began as a painter, but at the turn of the century focused on lithography, for which he is most well-known. He was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre de Leopold by King Albert I of Belgium in 1933.


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150 years of the First Impressionist Exhibition, 1874-2024

150 years ago, on April 15, 1874, a group of artists called the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers, etc. organized an exhibition in Paris that launched the movement called Impressionism.
Its founding members included Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro, among others.
Thirty-one artists had gathered to hold their own art fair, outside the official Salon, in a declaration of independence that marked the birth of a groundbreaking art movement.

Claude Monet | Impression, Sunrise, 1872 | Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet

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Georges Jeanniot | Belle Époque painter


Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934) was a Swiss-French Impressionist painter, designer, watercolorist, and engraver who was born in Geneva, Switzerland, and died in France.
His work often depicts the modern life in Paris.
The artistic education of Pierre-Georges Jeanniot began with his father, Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot (1826–1892), a longtime director of l'École des Beaux-Arts of Dijon, France.
Pierre-Georges Jeanniot started out pursuing a military career, as an infantry officer (1866-1881).

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Margaret Keane | Big eyes

"I think what Keane has done is terrific! If it were bad, so many people wouldn’t like it".

Born in Nashville, Tennessee, Margaret Keane (born Peggy Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 - June 26, 2022) always loved to paint and draw since an early age.
She first made her paintings famous in San Francisco’s North Beach in the 1950s.
Margaret’s work drew little accolades from art critics but was loved and admired by the world.
Margaret went on to become one of the most successful living artists in the early 60s to present day.


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Jacques-Émile Blanche | Portrait painter

Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942) was a French painter and writer.
His father, a fashionable nerve specialist, owned a clinic where many of Blanche's sitters had been patients.
As a painter he had both talent and charm, and he enjoyed a great vogue in his day.
His work lacks originality and was much influenced by such contemporaries as James Tissot and John Singer Sargent.
The loose brushwork and subdued colouring of his portraits are also reminiscent of Edouard Manet and English 18th-century artists, especially Thomas Gainsborough.


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René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910

René Rousseau-Decelle studied with the master of French Academic painting, William Bouguereau, in the waning years of the older artist’s life.
It is clear that the young Rousseau-Decelle quickly moved away from the tightly-painted images of French peasant girls and threw himself headlong into the world of the haute bourgeoisie of fin-de-siècle Paris.
Like his master, Rousseau-Decelle found a very commercially successful niche and adhered to that formula throughout his career.

René Rousseau-Decelle | Le pesage de Longchamp, 1910 (detail)

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Sir William Rothenstein | Portrait painter

Sir William Rothenstein (1872-1945) was an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer and writer on art.
Emerging during the early 1890s, Rothenstein continued to make art right up until his death.
Though he covered many subjects - ranging from landscapes in France to representations of Jewish synagogues in London - he is perhaps best known for his work as a war artist in both world wars, his portraits, and his popular memoirs, written in the 1930s.
More than two hundred of Rothenstein's portraits of famous people can be found in the National Portrait Gallery collection.


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Happy Birthday Édouard Manet!

It’s Édouard Manet’s birthday - born on this day - January 23, 1832. To this day, Manet is still considered to be the father of Modernism.

Édouard Manet -the eldest son of an official in the French Ministry of Justice- had early hopes of becoming a naval officer. After twice failing the training school's entrance exam, the teenager instead went to Paris to pursue a career in the arts. There he studied with Thomas Couture and diligently copied works at the Musée du Louvre.
The biennial (and later, annual) Parisian Salons were considered the most expedient way for an artist to make himself known to the public, and Manet submitted paintings to Salon juries throughout his career. In 1861, at the age of twenty-nine, he was awarded the Salon's honorable mention for The Spanish Singer.


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Alfred Stevens | Academic Classical painter

Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens (11 May 1823 - 24 August 1906) was a Belgian painter, known for his paintings of elegant modern women.
After gaining attention early in his career with a social realist painting depicting the plight of poor vagrants, he achieved great critical and popular success with his scenes of upper-middle class Parisian life.
In their realistic style and careful finish, his works reveal the influence of 17th-century Dutch genre painting.


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Happy birthday Berthe Morisot!

Berthe Morisot was an essential figure in the Impressionist movement (a small group of inventive creators who organized independent exhibitions in protest against established art institutions in Paris).
Morisot’s paintings are visual poems.
Staying true to the tenets of impressionism, at first glance, you immediately notice her loose brushstrokes and colors that reflect the hues of nature.
Then, you realize later the absorbing quality of her work. Her paintings are hard to stop thinking about when you leave them.
Why?
Because Morisot had an understanding of women and their experiences that was uncommon for an artist at the time.
She painted women existing in their everyday lives in a way that was not present in the work of her male counterparts.
Rather than simply looking at these women, in Morisot’s work, you take time to think about what it’s like to be them and in their world. | National Gallery of Art


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Salon des Refusés (May 15, 1863)

Salon des Refusés is generally known as an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863.
Today by extension, salon des refusés refers to any exhibition of works rejected from a juried art show.
Among the exhibitors were Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro, Armand Guillaumin, Johan Jongkind, Henri Fantin-Latour, James Whistler and Édouard Manet, who exhibited his famous painting "Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe", officially regarded as a scandalous affront to taste.

Édouard Manet | Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863 | Musée d'Orsay, Paris

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Ten American Painters, 1897-1918

The Ten American Painters (also known as The Ten) was an artists' group formed in 1898 to exhibit their work as a unified group.
John Henry Twachtman, J. Alden Weir and Childe Hassam were the driving forces behind the organization. Dissatisfied with the conservatism of the American art establishment, the three artists recruited seven others from Boston, New York City, and elsewhere on the East Coast, with the intention of creating an exhibition society that valued their view of originality, imagination, and exhibition quality.
The Ten achieved popular and critical success, and lasted two decades before dissolving.

Foundation

In America, popular painting styles usually originated on the east coast in cities like New York and Boston.
The Ten continued a tradition of artists forming new groups in reaction to a lack of support from existing artists' groups. Thus, the National Academy of Design (founded in 1825 by students dissatisfied by the conservatism of the older American Academy of the Fine Arts) eventually became too conservative to suit the artists who in 1877 initiated the Society of American Artists so they could meet and exhibit their work as a collective.

Frank W. Benson | Summer, 1909

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Edgar Degas a Napoli, 1856

Degas sbarcò a Napoli (IT) il 17 luglio 1856. Nella città partenopea l'artista ebbe modo di ricongiungersi con il nonno René Hilaire, che lo ospitò nella sua vasta dimora, palazzo Pignatelli di Monteleone: il viaggio in Italia, oltre a un'inestimabile opportunità formativa, era infatti anche un modo per ricongiungersi con i familiari, in parte residenti a Napoli, in parte a Firenze.
Napoli, città esuberante e vivace, che offriva un clima splendidamente mediterraneo, serbava all’epoca non solo un grande fervore culturale, ma anche una vasta gamma di divertimenti pittoreschi, gastronomici e carnali.
Degas, tuttavia, conduceva una vita ascetica, totalmente dedicata all'arte, e pertanto consacrò il suo soggiorno napoletano al perfezionamento della sua pittura.
Notevole, in tal senso, il Ritratto di Hilaire De Gas, opera raffigurante proprio il nonno che si può considerare a pieno titolo il primo cimento artistico di rilievo del giovane Degas.

Edgar Degas | Ritratto di Hilaire De Gas, 1857 | Museo d'Orsay, Parigi

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Edgar Degas | Artistic style

Degas is often identified as an Impressionist, an understandable but insufficient description. Impressionism originated in the 1860s and 1870s and grew, in part, from the realism of such painters as Courbet and Corot.
The Impressionists painted the realities of the world around them using bright, "dazzling" colors, concentrating primarily on the effects of light, and hoping to infuse their scenes with immediacy. They wanted to express their visual experience in that exact moment.
Technically, Degas differs from the Impressionists in that he continually belittled their practice of painting en plein air.

"You know what I think of people who work out in the open. If I were the government I would have a special brigade of gendarmes to keep an eye on artists who paint landscapes from nature. Oh, I don't mean to kill anyone; just a little dose of bird-shot now and then as a warning".


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Edgar Degas | Lettera ai giurati del French Salon nel 1870

Nel 1870, Edgar Degas indirizzò questa lettera - pubblicata sul quotidiano Paris-journal - alla giuria del Salon, in cui delineava proposte radicali per eliminare l'affollata sospensione di quadri dal pavimento al soffitto del Salon.

"Ai signori giurati del Salon del 1870,

suvvia, signori della giuria, non scoraggiatevi. Non avete ancora finito. Eccovi dunque padroni di organizzare un’esposizione. Si dice che siate molto imbarazzati. Dio sia lodato! L’amministrazione lo era ancor di più e da molto più tempo.
Eppure ha continuato. C’è una cosa a cui ogni espositore ha indiscutibilmente diritto e di cui non si è mai parlato nei progetti scritti e nei conciliaboli: una collocazione di suo gradimento. Questo già accade nell'industria. Un calzolaio, nel piccolo spazio che ottiene, espone la propria merce come vuole. Un pittore no.

Non è lo spazio che manca: si può montare e smontare questo palazzo costruito in ferro e sottili tramezzi, come un teatro. Di soldi, ne servono pochi per una festa così semplice, e le entrate ci sono. Il vostro tempo, la vostra attenzione, e un po’ del vostro senso del dovere, signori, ecco quel che occorre.
Cochin, l’incisore, fu sovente, nel secolo scorso, l’arazziere delle esposizioni. Diderot gli diede questo nome, che, a quanto pare, è andato perduto. Riprendetelo.
Ho l’impressione che l’organizzazione del Salon richieda qualche cambiamento. In tutta coscienza, voi potreste farlo. Un paio di voi, una volta decisa la cosa, verrebbero delegati al controllo.


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Edgar Degas | Artistic career

Upon his return to France in 1859, Degas moved into a Paris studio large enough to permit him to begin painting The Bellelli Family—an imposing canvas he intended for exhibition in the Salon, although it remained unfinished until 1867.
He also began work on several history paintings: Alexander and Bucephalus and The Daughter of Jephthah in 1859–60; Sémiramis Building Babylon in 1860; and Young Spartans around 1860.
In 1861 Degas visited his childhood friend Paul Valpinçon in Normandy, and made the earliest of his many studies of horses.
He exhibited at the Salon for the first time in 1865, when the jury accepted his painting Scene of War in the Middle Ages, which attracted little attention.


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Edgar Degas | Life and Artworks

Edgar Degas seems never to have reconciled himself to the label of "Impressionist", preferring to call himself a "Realist" or "Independent". Nevertheless, he was one of the group’s founders, an organizer of its exhibitions, and one of its most important core members.
Like the Impressionists, he sought to capture fleeting moments in the flow of modern life, yet he showed little interest in painting plein air landscapes, favoring scenes in theaters and cafés illuminated by artificial light, which he used to clarify the contours of his figures, adhering to his Academic training.


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Timeline of Art History

An Art Period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, groups of artists or art movement.
The history of art is immense and the earliest cave paintings pre-date writing by almost 27,000 years!

Ancient Classical art

Minoan art

Ancient Greek art

Roman art


Ancient Egyptian colors