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Apr 10 2011
The Lock, John Constable, 1824
Academician / British / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Romanticism - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Lock” of 1824 by John Constable. The artist was a native of Suffolk who died in 1837 at the age of sixty-one years. He is one of the greatest English landscape painters but did not become recognized until he was elected to the Royal Academy at the age of fifty-two. He struggled financially until then with his works selling better in France than in England. This landscape features the lock and canal system of England which led to its industrial growth in the Nineteenth Century. The painting is 120 cm wide and 142.2 cm high and is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
Jan 28 2011
The Wave by Gustave Courbet, 1870
French / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
Courbet painted this when he was fifty years old and it is a wonderful example of his Realist style in which he roughly and intimate portrayed the harshness of experience and the scenes which he encountered in life. The painting has been interpreted as an escape from the terrors of the Industrial Revolution and an embracing of the power of Nature. Courbet created the work in a cottage on the Norman coast in which he lost himself in the creative process. Within a year, he was imprisoned for six months during the Paris Comune of 1871 and afterwards went into a self-imposed exile to Switzerland where he died on December 31, 1877. This masterpiece is in the Musee d’Orsay in Paris.
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