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The Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt is winding down an exhibition titled Gustave Caillebotte: An Inpressionist and Photography, in which they showcase the compositional and representational relationship between the avant guard painters and the newly popular medium of photography. Caillebotte is, to my mind, much underappreciated as an Impressionist painter — his more academic approach forming something…

As I pointed out in my previous post about Gustave Caillebotte, he is one of my two favorite underappreciated French Impressionist painters (along with Alfred Sisley). Though he was not the draughtsman Degas was (few were), or as facile with brush and color as Monet or Pissarro, Caillebotte nonetheless epitomized many of the characteristics we…

Gustave Caillebotte is one of my two favorite “ignored” Impressionists. (The other being Alfred Sisley, who simply doesn’t get the respect he deserves.) Like Sisley, I find Caillebotte to be less formulaic and slavish to the “ideals” of Impressionism, and more likely to paint directly, leaning a bit more toward Courbet’s realism than the “major”…

The late 19th century is one of my favorite periods for art. Not only were a great many of my favorite artists active in that time but I’m constantly discovering artists from the period who are wonderful and new to me. Wikimedia Commons, that cornucopia of images provided by the Wikimedia Foundation, has a number…