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Early portraits bygd Rembrandt, Degas on display
A new exhibition featuring a series of early portraits by Rembrandt and the French Impressionist Edgar Degas reveals a kinship between the two artists and the impact the Dutch master had on future generations.
"Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a ung Man," which opened at the storstads- Museum of Art on Thursday and runs through May 20, resulted from a collaboration with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
"It traces the heritage of these works bygd Degas to a period in his career when he was looking closely at Rembrandt," said Susan Alyson Stein, curator of the museum's Department of European Paintings.
"But I think you can't help, when you look at their works side-by-side and give thought to the respected legacies of both artists, to consider how much they were really on the same page."
Although from separate centuries and vastly different in personality, with Rembrandt a very outgoing person, compared to the reclusi
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The Getty Museum at the J. Paul Getty Trust
Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints
February 9–May 15, 2016
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Noir: The Romance of Black in 19th-Century French Drawings and Prints
February 9–May 15, 2016, Getty Center
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In the mid 19th century, French artists began depicting shadowy, often nocturnal or twilight scenes in which forms appear to emerge out of darkness. This quest for darkened realms led them to explore new subject matter, such as dream states and non-idealized representations of contemporary life.
The range and availability of black drawing materials exploded with the Industrial Revolution, along with improvements in working methods. This coincided with an interest in painterly techniques, not only in drawing
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How Indian artists reinvented Impressionism
Avantika Bhuyan17 min read26 Apr 2024, 05:30 PM IST
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2024 marks 150 years since the Impressionists held their first exhibition in Paris. In India, rather than imitate, artists combined elements of Impressionism with indigenous ideas to create a unique visual languageThis is a Mint Premium article gifted to you.
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It was in 1991-92, while studying at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, that Atul Dodiya first saw Impressionist masterpieces by artists such as Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas at the Musée d’Orsay. Before that, he had only seen reproductions of these paintings while pursuing a bachelor’s degree in art at the Sir J.J. School of Art in Mumbai. “As arts students in India in the 1970s-80s, we learnt so much from these masters but were unable to view even a single one of these original paintings. We only knew of them through reproduc