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Monthly Archives: July 2012
The Isar near Grosshessolohe by Wassily Kandinsky (1901)
My last blog featured the German artist Gabriele Münter and I talked about her relationship with her one-time art teacher and lover, the Russian painter and gifted writer, Wassily Kandinsky. Today I am going to delve into his early life … Continue reading
The Blue Mountain by Gabriele Münter
A couple of blogs ago I looked at the life of Frida Kahlo and, in the course of following her life story, talked about her husband the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Although Frida was an artist in her own right, … Continue reading
Winter Landscape with koek en zopie at night by Andreas Schelfhout
In my last blog I looked at the life of Johan Jongkind. His initial artistic tuition came when he attended the Drawing Academy of The Hague and it was here that he was taught by Andreas Schelfhout. Having looked at … Continue reading
Posted in Andreas Schelfhout, Art, Art Blog, Art display, Dutch painters, Landscape paintings, Winterscape
Tagged Andreas Schelfhout, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Dutch painters, Landscape artists, Romanticism, Winter Landscape with Cake and Zopie at night by Andreas Schelfhout, Winter landscapes
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Frigates by Johan Barthold Jongkind
My featured artist today is the nineteenth century Dutch painter and one who is considered to be the forerunner of Impressionism. His name is Johan Barthold Jongkind. Jongkind was born in 1819 in the small Dutch town of Lattrop in … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo – Part 4
My blog today is the fourth and final part of Frida Kahlo’s life story. Over the last three blogs I have looked at her ancestry, her birth, her school days and her first marriage to Diego Rivera. Today I am … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo – Part 3
My blog today is the third part of the biography of the Mexican Surrealist artist, Frida Kahlo. My first look at her life and her paintings concentrated on her parents and ancestors and the second one followed her from birth … Continue reading
Frida Kahlo – Part 2
In my last blog I started to look at the life of Frida Kahlo, the great Mexican surrealist painter and had reached a point where Frida was born on July 6th 1907 and was living in Coyocoán, the small town … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Blog, Art display, Frida Kahlo, Mexican artists
Tagged Alejandro Gomez Arias, Art, Art Blog, Art History, Frida Kahlo, Mexican artists, Portrait of Alejandro Gomez Arias by Frida Kahlo, Portrait of my Father by Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait in a Velvet Dress by Frida Kahlo
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Frida Kahlo – Part One
There has been a much longer period since my last blog than I would have liked or I had intended. I could simply explain that the reason for the delay being down to how busy I am with my Bed … Continue reading
The Stonebreakers by Gustave Courbet
For my third look at Realism art and Social Realism art I am going back to the land of its inception, France. The emergence of this form of art came about in France around 1848, the year King Louis-Philippe lost … Continue reading
