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 of a bridge between the broken color of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley and the representationally direct paintings of Degas.
The exhibit closes this Sunday, 20 January 2013. Those of us not in the region can still enjoy some of Caillebotte’s work online.
Link: Gustave Caillebotte: An Inpressionist and Photography, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, to 20 Jan 2013
General Gustave Caillebotte links:
WikiPaintings
Museum Syndicate
Athenaeum
Wikipedia
Artcyclopedia (links to many other resources)
My previous posts:
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from paris to the Sea
General Gustave Caillebotte links:
WikiPaintings
Museum Syndicate
Athenaeum
Wikipedia
Artcyclopedia (links to many other resources)
My previous posts:
Gustave Caillebotte
Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from paris to the Sea
Odd how in some paintings the water looks solid and in some, translucent. In the second image above, it looks solid, like one could walk upon it. And the street in the third image is so watery and translucent that one expects the pedestrians to sink into it. (Francois Boucher has me thinking about translucent waves.)
For a wonderful take on water’s translucency and surface, see my posts on Frits Tuaulow, and here, particularly Water Mill.
I started now oil painting so my works aren´t too good enough and I´ve opened a blog, soon I´ll update it with my paintings: http://acrylicandoilpainting-mavramart.blogspot.com