What an interesting painting.
I looked through many of his portraits, but this one hit hard.
🇺🇦 Ilia Ripyn
The Fisher Girl, 1874
You may know him as Ilia Repin, but he was born in Ukraine. I’ll tell you more soon.
In 'The Artist, His wife and the Writer Otto Benzon,' (1893) Peder Krøyer (in the blue smock) depicts breakfast at his house in Skagen where he helped found an artists' colony on the most northern peninsular in Denmark.
'The Orange Seller.' (c1960) Reginald Brill was an English social realist and narrative painter whose work primarily depicts the lives of ordinary people and the landscapes that they inhabit.
John Nash became well known for his work painted in watercolour during WW1; post-war he started painting in oils. His work owed much to French landscape painting; an evocative style with a sense of tight construction, as is evident in this painting of the Isle of Skye (1974)
Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.
'Bathers at Low Tide, Sennen,' is a triumphant example of Laura Knight's Cornish work. Drawn like many of their generation to the English coast, Harold and Laura Knight lived and worked in the Yorkshire town of Staithes in the late 19thC before discovering Cornwall. This is 1915.
'Three Fishermen.' (c1913) While nearby Penzance burgeoned as a holiday resort, Newlyn in Cornwall remained a working port supporting a tightly knit community. In Harold Harvey's painting, we see him using a naturalistic style reminiscent of painters such as Dod Procter.
'Salt Ash, Cornwall.' (c1930) Alfred Wallis has been made to matter in British art because he can be subsumed into a grand narrative that charts painting's long march from the representational and figurative towards abstraction.
'Still life of asparagus.' (1697) Adriaen Coorte's still lifes set against a plain dark background, are enormously appealing to the modern eye, his work fell into obscurity in the 18thC and 19thC; a reappraisal about his career was published in the 1950s.