The 1876 4’4” by 5’9” oil on canvas ‘Le Moulin de la Galette’ is one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s most popular and impressive paintings, and a fine example of his early impressionist era. It demonstrates many of the aims, qualities and techniques of impressionist painting. Though regularly portraying beautiful and happy scenes (Renoir famously said “Why … Continue reading Renoir’s ‘Le Moulin de la Galette,’ and Impressionism Theory and Techniques

The 1812 over four by six foot oil painting on canvas ‘The Hay Wain’ is one of the English artist John Constable’s works that greatly influenced the French Romantic and later impressionist movements, and helped, with J. W. M. Turner’s works, usher in landscapes as a worthy subject matter. Constable and his art are dichotomous … Continue reading John Constable’s The Hay Wain (1821)