Art Guide

Pierre-Auguste Renoir A Young Girl with Daisies

Vincent van Gogh Summer Evening, Wheatfield with Setting Sun, 1888

J.M.W Turner The Burning of the Houses of Parliament

Paul Gauguin Arearea

Vincent van Gogh Orchard in Blossom

Munch rejected traditional academic finish. He did not focus on Inger's likeness. Instead, he captured the melancholic atmosphere of the shoreline. This projection of his own internal state marked his break from naturalism into symbolism. Is Munch still so relevant because we continue to identify with him in feelings like sadness or melancholy?

Edvard Munch Summer Night, 1889

Anna Ancher Harvesters

Edward Hopper Sun on Prospect Street, 1934

Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas

European artists like Monet built Impressionism by copying Japanese prints. Hasui inverted the cycle. He took Western plein-air lighting and forced it into traditional woodblock printing. The result was a manufactured nostalgia designed specifically to sell to Western collectors. Can a tradition maintain its authenticity when its survival requires adapting to an outside gaze?

Kawase Hasui Evening at Itako, 1930

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Les Grands Boulevards

Fra Angelico The Annunciation, 1446

Rembrandt van Rijn Rembrandt's Mother Reading, 1629

Hopper turns a hotel lobby into a study of modern loneliness An older couple and a young woman wait in a hotel lobby. Nobody talks. Nobody looks at each other. Does it feel any less familiar today?

Edward Hopper Hotel Lobby

Pablo Picasso Blue Nude

Joaquín Sorolla Strolling along the Seashore, 1909