Dose of Art #203 Théodore Géricault – Head of a Shipwrecked Man (1818-1819)
The phenomenon of overlooking things and people that didn’t make it because of their invisibility is known as survivorship bias […]
19th century
Dose of Art #202 Edvard Munch – Death in the Sickroom (1893)
Tuberculosis is a potentially deadly infectious disease caused by bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Roughly one-quarter of the world’s population has been […]
Dose of Art #190: Jules Dupre – The Old Oak (1870)
Dupres was a French landscape painter from Nantes. Although he painted some marine landscapes he favoured ones featuring trees. He […]
Dose of Art #188: Anton Mauve – The Return of the Flock, Laren (c. 1886-1887)
The Return of the Flock shows all the elements Mauve loved; animals, people and the Dutch landscape. As noted in […]
Dose of Art #183: Tom Roberts – Shearing the rams (1890)
When you think of Australia, famous paintings are probably not the first thing that comes to mind (sheep might be). […]
Dose of Art #179: Pierre Auguste Cot – La Tempête / The Storm (1880)
Paul et Virginie is a novel by the Frenchmen Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. First published in 1788 it tells the […]
Dose of Art #178: Severin Roesen – Still Life with Fruit (not dated – the 19th century)
Roesen was born in Germany in 1816 and moved to the United States in 1848. He painted over 300 paintings, […]
Dose of Art #175: Anton Mauve – Changing Pasture (c. 1880)
Mauve was committed to record peasant life, Dutch skies and the flat country. Changing Pasture exemplifies all that; on one […]
Dose of Art #170: Ilya Repin – The Unexpected Visitor (c. 1884-1888)
As we saw a couple of days ago with Isaac Levitan’s Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park the end of the 19thth […]
Dose of Art #168: Isaac Levitan – Autumn Day, Sokolniki Park (1879)
Levitan lived in Moscow, but when after a failed assassination attempt on Alexander II in May 1879 the Russian Empire […]