Southwest Art

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AS A CHILD growing up in India, landscape artist Aruna Rao always had her nose in one book or another. Her family’s home was filled with tomes on French Impressionism and English and Russian literature that captivated young Aruna’s imagination with t

Signature Luxury Travel & Style

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Musée du Louvre, Paris, 24 October 2019 – 24 February 2020 2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the quintessential Renaissance genius, who died on 2 April 1519 in the Loire Valley. Of the 17 paintings now attributed to the Italian master,

NPR

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painted thousands of landscapes. But in the last two decades of his life, he turned his attention to painting women — often dressed in elaborate costumes.

Southwest Art

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FOR MANY event organizers around the country, lately the mantra has been “the show must go on,” whether that entails hosting it in a physical location with precautions in place, or entirely online. Some events, like the American Impressionist Society

PleinAir Magazine

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For European painters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, painting en plein air occupied an integral stage of their art education. The core practice challenged their abilities to quickly capture effects of light and atmosphere, relying only on

Watercolor Artist

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A giant of 19th-century art, Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) had scant formal schooling as an artist. His family couldn’t afford to pay for a traditional art education, so Daumier received private lessons and attended life classes without a teache

Artists & Illustrators

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My little sister had a very big birthday recently and I wanted to paint her a picture which told a story of her school days. My dilemma was that I normally paint in an “Impressionist” style, although my artist friends would say “miserable” since I am

Creative Artist

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Frédéric Bazille Exhibition explores the artist’s role in the Impressionist movement at National Gallery of Art Frédéric Bazille (1841–1870) created paintings inspired by contemporary life that challenged the aesthetic conventions of his day and help

PleinAir Magazine

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For any European painter of the early 19th century, the Italian landscape held an almost mystical appeal, luring the likes of a young Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French, 1796–1875) with its natural beauty and antique monuments. The candor, naturalis

Artists & Illustrators

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For many, the birth of Impressionism marks the dawn of modern painting as we know it. While the approach of these late 19th-century French painters has several precedents, not least in the work of pioneering British artists John Constable and JMW Tur

Old House Journal

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Low-slung and with exaggerated structure, the Bungalow was in its heyday (ca. 1898–1930) prized for its exotic, Anglo–Indian associations and for the artistic naturalism that tied it to Arts & Crafts. Popular 1893–1950 in most of the country, variant

Artist's Back to Basics

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with Wayne Malkin Many people I speak to tell me they really enjoy painting but don’t get the time to do it. My answer is, I paint (almost every day) and sometimes don’t get the time to do other things. As a young man I had the need to draw, and I en

Art & Antiques

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote in Emile, his treatise on education, “Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.” For young painters living in the wake of Rousseau, learning the visual truth of nature was of vital importance. The tr

Creative Artist

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A talented artist who has always had a passion for art, Amanda Gray cannot remember a time in her life when she was not painting or drawing. Coming from a family of engineers, pilots and mathematicians, Amanda felt somewhat like the black sheep, but

Artist's Palette

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Many people I speak to tell me they really enjoy painting but don’t get the time to do it. My answer is, I paint (almost every day) and sometimes don’t get the time to do other things. As a young man I had the need to draw, and I enjoyed art at schoo

Southwest Art

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COUNTLESS ARTISTS throughout history have demonstrated that small paintings can have a big impact, and today there are many more painters who are creating a bounty of similar evidence. Just look to the American Impressionist Society’s third annual Im

Art & Antiques

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THE YEAR 2020 has brought a lot of things, but one of its very happy outcomes has been the commemoration of Findlay Galleries’ 150 years in business. The steadfast dealer marked its sesquicentennial anniversary with the opening of its new gallery loc

Artist's Back to Basics

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With artist Derek. L. Newton A.M.S.A Keep a wooden ruler next to your easel to rap yourself over the knuckles with, if you have any thoughts about overworking an impressionistic painting. Its whole appeal is in its freshness. Here I have used this im

PleinAir Magazine

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Northern California oil painter Philippe Gandiol is about as deeply rooted in impressionism as an American painter can be. He grew up visiting Giverny and Monet’s garden with his grandparents in France, and the influence of those visits shows up in h

Creative Artist

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Jan Matson’s love of painting developed in her earliest years. Her best memories are of her great-aunt, who was an artist living in a rambling old house in Adelaide. The house was full of paintings, tapestries and fascinating old books. It was always

Finest Hour

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The snow has stopped falling. Chartwell and the garden sit under a hefty, white cloak. The air is cold, quiet, and still. Sunshine dazzles, reflected by the snow and glowing from the house; only the shadows of trees and shrubs give respite from the i

Southwest Art

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ONE DAY in a workshop, a student asked Marjorie Hicks how to paint something white against a white background. In response, Hicks quickly assembled a collection of various white objects in order to demonstrate the answer: three stuffed bunnies, a por

Southwest Art

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What inspires you to create art? The way light can transform an object is wonderfully exciting. How would you describe your style? It depends on the day and the kind of idea I want to express. I don’t like the idea of being pigeonholed to one style

5280 Home

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Era: Art Deco Designer: Reuben Haley Why we love it: Rule breaking. When the Cubism-art-inspired piece debuted at a glass fair in 1928, one trade journal referred to it as the “craziest thing ever brought out in glassware.” Also, you can’t beat that

PleinAir Magazine

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It’s fair to say Maria Marino draws inspiration from the Impressionists. But these days, the term is used loosely enough to apply to almost all representational painters. Why? Because there seem to be two components — or at least two views — of Impre

Southwest Art

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“YOU CAN GO to museums and see Monet. But if you want to see what’s going on with impressionism right now in America, this is the show to see.” That’s the compelling reason offered by Cheryl St. John, vice president of the American Impressionist Soci

PleinAir Magazine

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Measured against the great span of art across the centuries, plein air painting occupies a relatively new space on the timeline. For much of art history, allegorical and narrative themes dominated landscape painting. It wasn’t until the early 19th ce

Fine Art Connoisseur

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For well over a decade, artists, curators, and collectors have debated whether the term “contemporary realism” makes sense generally, and specifically to folks who don’t know much about what we do. Though some say names don’t matter, I disagree — “br

The Pastel Journal

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Sophie Amauger’s studio, located in the south of France, near Toulouse, is a converted barn with windows on all sides. Located near a hiking trail, the studio also doubles as a gallery where visitors can stop by to see the artist’s work. Step outside

Art & Antiques

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IN 1903, CALIFORNIA officially adopted the poppy as its state flower. That might seem like a trivial thing, but the vivid yellow-orange blossom was a key visual element in a vigorous publicity campaign that the Sunshine State was waging at the time,