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...

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...

“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...

Armand Guillaumin was born in Paris in February 1841 to a family aspiring to secure a position amidst the lower tiers of the rapidly growing middle class. Soon after Armand’s birth...