It consists of mainly red, white & blue swirls depicting the French flag. I have seen a print of this painting once but have forgotten the title & artist. Can anybody help, please?
It’s a great painting!
you may have seen "la rue saint denis, fete du juin’ 1878" by claude monet. it may represent bastille day and/or the end of the world’s fair in rouen, and/or perhaps relates the franco-prussian war; depending on which version of history you read.
it decorates the front cover of a large book my family has owned for many years entitled "the great book of french impressionism," by diane kelder.
a great painting, indeed.
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter.
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There were a few branches of dissatisfaction with the preceding impressionist movement. artists like seurat aimed to focus more on developing technique, broke down the brushstroke more into color theory of pointillism [thousands upon thousands of tiny dots of color compounded to create an image- the famous "Grande Jatte" painting is the classic example] Cezanne wanted to restore form and volume to impressionist works [he also began to warp perspective as well, really a precursor of the jagged planes/multiple perspectives of cubism in a sense] and van Gogh attempted to restore emotional content to painting through the use of extremely vivid colors and the dynamic, thick impasto technique of painting. check out "the night cafe" for an example of the colors. generally when looking at art history, each movement tends to respond to/challenge the art that preceded it in different ways, post impressionists were not necessarily united in one linear train of thought; but expressed their dissatisfaction/moderation of the dominant impressionist style in various ways
Which mineral oil colors helped to the impressionist painter to have brighter colors to their paintings?
How did the mineral oil colors are produced?
Mineral oil colors were from inorganic pigments that are compounds of minerals, such as cobalt, cadmium, and manganese. Prussian Blue, cerulean, etc all became possible for the Impressionist’s use then. These mineral colors grey down when mixed with white. This attribute makes them particularly valuable for painting natural light because most colors of the natural world have a strong element of grey.
Pointillist paintings of the brighter side of life by Norm Dillinger. Much better slideshow at: www.normdillinger.myphotoalbum.com/albums.php These original acrylic paintings can be seen at
Norm’s home-studio 821 Orient St. Chico Ca. anytime by chance or by appointment ph 530-343-1582 or e-mail norman943@att.net.
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I bought a painting at an auction. It is an oil on canvas in the impressionist style. The scene is a stream with rocks and trees. It is signed in the lower right corner "Höfer".
Hi! I found these and it may still be another:
Andre Hofer (20th Century) France
Andreas Hofer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Hofer_(artist)
August Hofer (1899 – 1981) Austria
Candida Hofer (1944 – ) Germany
http://fryemuseum.org/exhibition/78/
Carl Hofer
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hofer_carl.html
Charles Hofer
Donald Hofer
http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/donald-hofer.html
Franz Hofer
http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/hofer_franz_ammoldauuferbeiprag.htm
Heinrich Hofer (1825 – 1878) Germany
Heinz Hofer
http://www.art.com/asp/display_artist-asp/_/crid–2301/Heinz_Hofer.htm
Herbert Hofer
http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Herbert-Hofer-Mykonos-Greece-Signed-Canvas-Art/3187474/product.html
Herman Hofer California
Ignaz Hofer (1790 – 1862) Austria
Karl Hofer (1878 – 1955) Germany
http://www.spaightwoodgalleries.com/Pages/Hofer.html
Otto Schmidt Hofer (1873 – 1925) Germany
Renate B. Hofer
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.art-domain.com/preliminaries09/Hofer-006-pre.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.art-domain.com/preliminaries09/preliminaries09-hofer.html&h=240&w=240&sz=16&hl=en&start=17&um=1&usg=__uwoW6d2DuVo1unTFVU31pLKIgoc=&tbnid=Jrb5JsGcZ7h4tM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dartist%2BH%25C3%25B6fer%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26ie%3DUTF-8
Schmidt Hofer
Tassilo Hofer (1934 – )
Ueli Hofer (1952 – )
Wade Hofer
http://www.eesgallery.com/dynamic/artist_bio.asp?ArtistID=50
Walter Hofer (1904 – 1994) Switzerland
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any names any!!!
The core of the earliest Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, and the American Mary Cassatt.
It looks as new but I think i see the year 51 under the signature which looks like ‘liza’ to me?! very hard to tell – heres some piccies!
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Well, there are no famed impressionists with the first or last name "Liza." My guess is that the painting was executed by someone — possibly an amateur with some talent (it’s genuinely pretty) — who simply used her first name as her signature.
Do you know where the painting came from? Did you buy it yourself or inherit it? The seller is a place to start. If you inherited it, ask other relatives what they might know about how the previous owner obtained it.
Camille Pissarro (1830 – 1903)
“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for”? (Camille Pissarro)
Pissarro was born in 1830 in St. Thomas, the West Indies. In 1841 he was sent to school in Paris where he created his first drawings. By 1847 he returned to St. Thomas to work for his father which he did not like and consequently ran away to Caracas, Venezuela, for 2 years to paint. His first pictures were West Indian scenes in an – Oriental Style -. In 1855 his father finally allowed him to study art in Paris. He became friends with Monet, Cezanne and Guillaumin and played a key role in the development of Impressionism. He was the only artist to show in all 8 of the Impressionist exhibitions. For him Impressionism was a movement which allowed artistic emancipation. He believed strongly in free thought and speech. Before he introduced figures into his work in 1880, giving them a more decorative character, his paintings resembled most those of Monet. Later on Pissarro was attracted to Seurat’s Pointillism and saw it as a logical development of Impressionism. He adopted Seurat’s techniques but with limited success. Camille Pissarro was born in the West Indies, but studied in Paris under Corot. He also studied with Monet at the Academie Suisse, who encouraged him to join the Impressionists. Both Monet and Pissarro lived in London from 1870 to 1871 to avoid the Franco-Prussian War. From 1885-1888, Pissarro explored the divisionism technique of Neoimpressionist, Seurat, before returning to his original style. Confined indoors because of his failing eyesight, Pissarro painted views of Rouen and Paris from 1896 to his death.
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