Tag Archives: Jean-Francois Millet

vincent in arles: goodbye yellow brick house

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Dave

… then in February 1888, during a snowstorm, came a Dutchman who saw Arles as the city had been waiting to be seen- a miracle of color beneath the golden sun. Vincent van Gogh adored “the sun pouring down bright … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Daumier, Emile Bernard, Eugene Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, Martin Gayford, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Freedman, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, van Gogh in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

Not in my salon

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading →