In memoriam Mary Cassatt: 1, 1868-1880
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/06/01/in-memoriam-mary-cassatt-1-1868-1880/
In memoriam Mary Cassatt: 1, 1868-1880
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/06/01/in-memoriam-mary-cassatt-1-1868-1880/
Naturalists: Photography
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/01/naturalists-photography/
18. März 1990, Ein spektakulärer Kunstraub
Einer der spektakulärsten Kunstdiebstähle unserer Zeit, bei der die Diebe in 81 Minuten 13 Werke gestohlen haben, ist bis heute unaufgeklärt.https://little-arthistories.com/2026/05/18-maerz-1990-ein-spektakulaerer-kunstraub/
https://youtu.be/iXQjY7Z25gU?si=35HM3XVofEtF6GRf
Un superbe documentaire sur la naissance de l'impressionnisme et les peintres qui en furent à l'origine...
#peinture #peintres #impressionnisme #impressionnistes #art #artistes #rebelles #monet #renoir #degas #morisot #manet #cezanne #bazille #sisley #pissaro #impressionsoleillevant #couleur #fraicheur #zola #durandruel #exposition #courantpictural #mouvement #caillebotte #revolution

A follow-up to this, chasing Delacroix's quote back a year:
Art critic Léon Peisse in 1849, in a review of a work by Delacroix:
> La vérité esthétique n’est pas l’exactitude. (Aesthetic truth is not exactitude.)
Then Delacroix writes in his journal in 1850, and says it better:
> La froide exactitude n’est pas l’art. (Cold exactitude is not art.)
Factory Smoke by Edgar Degas
#illustration #art #factorysmoke #greyscale #EdgarDegas #Degas #publicdomain
Medium and Message: Edgar Degas’ mixed media
Reading Visual Art: 245 Scissors
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/13/reading-visual-art-245-scissors/
Medium and Message: Monotypes
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/27/medium-and-message-monotypes/
Medium and Message: Fans from Japan
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/06/medium-and-message-fans-from-japan/