The Brazilian landscapes of Frans Post capture the dismal dawn of the colonial age
The 17th-century Dutch artist was the first professional painter to record the New World – and the view was far…
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Mildred Eldridge devoted her life and art to a windswept natural world
The mid-century artist rejected London glamour for her husband RS Thomas and the hillsides of their beloved Wales.
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Walter Sickert’s fascination with the mundane, gaudy and sordid
A new exhibition presents the artist as a highly complex man whose unsettling work had innumerable narrative interpretations.
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How the Ukrainian painter Arkhip Kuindzhi laid out the spirituality in nature before Russian eyes
His 1905 painting Red Sunset on the Dnieper shows a Ukrainian village illuminated, something which today carries inescapably dark connotations.
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Raphael, the painter of perfection
He showed succeeding generations not just how art should be made but how an artist should live.
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My family and the forgotten massacre of Chios
Eugène Delacroix’s great painting changed Western art and recorded an atrocity that still haunts the island today.
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How Maurice Broomfield captured Britain at work
The leading postwar industrial photographer created images that are romanticised, unreal and full of respect for hard labour.
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How John Aldridge created a rural idyll in north Essex
The artist neither chased fame nor tired of his small patch of England.
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