Madrid has some of the finest paintings in Western History to view. We recently visited the Prado and the Modern and Contemporary collection at Reina Sofia. Both were excellent but the painting that stood out for us was Picasso’s Guernica at the latter. Standing in wonderful isolation with two guards on either side it must…
Category: Painting of the Month
Velázquez – The Great Magician of Art
Sherborne Art Society is a vibrant forum with a varied season of fine art and art history talks. We had not attended a meeting for one reason or another but were attracted to last weeks talk. Douglas Skeggs was the guest speaker on the subject of Diego Velázquez. With my art history education based on…
The Arrival of the Fishes – May Painting of the Month
Le Croisic* features strongly in my Painting of the Month for May. The artist, Jean-Émile Laboureur, lived in the small fishing town on the Loire-Atlantique coast for much of his life. Originally from Nantes, he developed cubist ideas and his unique woodcut representation while in Paris. Laboureur (1877-1943) was a French painter, draftsman, engraver, etcher,…
Camille Pissarro, My January Painting of the Month
Snow and ice has been the main protagonists of January’s weather. So I thought my painting of the month could be representative of the conditions. Few artists have utilised winter themes because of the limited palette and, simply, the difficulties in painting. Peter Bruegel the Elder famously painted Hunters in the Snow in 1565 representing both the…
Camille Pissarro, My January Painting of the Month
Snow and ice has been the main protagonists of January’s weather. So I thought my painting of the month could be representative of the conditions. Few artists have utilised winter themes because of the limited palette and, simply, the difficulties in painting. Peter Bruegel the Elder famously painted Hunters in the Snow in 1565 representing both the…
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