acquire genuine fame and cultural renown abroad. as one critic has put it, "j.c. dahl occupies a central position in norwegian artistic life of the first half of the th century. although dahl spent much of his life outside of norway, his love for his country is clear in the motifs he chose for his paintings...
to th-century works. the expressionist emphasis on individual perspective has been characterized as a reaction to positivism and other artistic styles such as naturalism and impressionism . while the word expressionist was used in the modern sense as early as , its origin is sometimes traced to paintings...
cathedral at angoulême. he showed a scene from the song of songs and the death of darius in the salon of . in , he contributed athenians with the minotaur and moses putting off his sandals within sight of the promised land to the great exhibition. oedipus and the sphinx, one of his first symbolist paintings...
art. the académie was the preserver of traditional french painting standards of content and style. historical subjects, religious themes, and portraits were valued; landscape and still life were not. the académie preferred carefully finished images that looked realistic when examined closely. paintings...
real-life subject matter, but were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, distort form for expressive effect, and use unnatural or arbitrary colour. the post-impressionists were dissatisfied with what they felt was the triviality of subject matter and the loss of structure in impressionist paintings...
beginning of jones's unconventional habit of producing small landscape sketches in oils on paper for his own amusement. jones embarked on an eagerly anticipated trip to italy in september . the works produced there departed significantly from the example of his master, particularly in his watercolour paintings...
fashion models, or actors. these pictures are also sometimes known as cheesecake photos. cheesecake was an american slang word, that was considered a publicly acceptable term for seminude women because pin-up was considered taboo in the early twentieth century. the term pin-up may refer to drawings, paintings...
of the wealthy curate of the sint-bavokerk, pieter jan foppesz (whose name van mander writes as pieter ian fopsen). they knew each other because foppesz owned land in heemskerk. the artist painted him in a now famous family portrait, considered the first of its kind in a long line of dutch family paintings...
. hogarth was born in london to a poor middle-class family. in his youth he took up an apprenticeship where he specialised in engraving. his father underwent periods of mixed fortune, and was at one time imprisoned in lieu of outstanding debts; an event that is thought to have informed william's paintings...
imagination as "the body of god" or "human existence itself". although blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. his paintings...