The Metropolitan Museum of Art calls this painting a “watershed in the history of Western art”[1] and the “first modern landscape”.[6]. Because of the new humanist lens through which Pieter Bruegel the Elder viewed his world, landscape painting was no longer limited to backgrounds for mythological or religious illustrations.
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Henry Moret: Grosse mer (1913)
Who Is Henry Moret? Henry Moret (1856 – 1913) was a French Impressionist painter best known for his association with Paul Gauguin and the artist colony at Pont-Aven in Brittany and for his richly colored landscapes of coastal Brittany. After his beginning as a more classical painter, Moret’s style developed under the influence of Gauguin…
Thomas Lamb: Blossom Tree after the Rain
Blossom Tree after the Rain – Thomas Lamb British, 1928-2016 Oil on linen Source: huariqueje
Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky: Twilight in Riga
Twilight in Riga, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky Size: 97.5×81 cm Medium: oil, canvas Via: artist-belsky Click for enlarged image:
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 