Alexej Feser, Seascape oil painting classic, Impressionism, Contemporary Academic Realism (2015-2020)

"Here is portrayed three Moods of the Sky and the effects on the Fish and Animals. Sharks and Turtles come to the Surface when it is Raining. Wallabies and Kangaroos are out feedin...

Theo van Rysselberghe, the most famous fin-de-siècle interlocutor between French and Belgian Neo-Impressionism, was born in Ghent on November 23, 1862. Theo’s parents lived in bour...

“I also hold that painting is a quite concrete art, and can consist of nothing but the representation of real, tangible things, ” wrote Gustave Courbet in an open letter to his stu...

In the field of French art, both academic and avant-garde, the 1880s were an unusually turbulent decade. The last official state-sponsored Salon, an institution that had been in ex...