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Claude Joseph Vernet was considered the leading French artist of his time in his genre, marine art and landscape painting.He came from a family of French painters: he was the son of a decorative painter, and his son Antoine-Charles-Horace Vernet, Carle Vernet (1758–1836), and his grandson Horace Vernet (1789–1863) were known as military painters.
In his 1950 painting The Empire of Light, René Magritte (1898–1967), [66] explores the illusion of night and day, and the paradox of time and light. On the top half of his canvas Magritte paints a clear blue sky and white clouds that radiate bright daytime; while on the bottom half of his canvas below the sky, he paints a street, sidewalk ...
Moonrise by the Sea or Moonrise over the Sea (German: Mondaufgang am Meer) is an 1822 oil-on-canvas painting by German painter Caspar David Friedrich. The work depicts a romantic seascape. Three young people, two women side by side and a man further back, are sitting on a large boulder by the sea, silhouetted against the sky as they watch the ...
Fitz Henry Lane, Lumber Schooners at Evening on Penobscot Bay, 1863, National Gallery of Art. Luminism is a style of American landscape painting of the 1850s to 1870s, characterized by effects of light in a landscape, through the use of aerial perspective and the concealing of visible brushstrokes. Luminist landscapes emphasize tranquility ...
The paintings of Four Times of the Day (clockwise from top left: Morning, Noon, Night, and Evening) Four Times of the Day is a series of four oil paintings by English artist William Hogarth. They were completed in 1736 and in 1738 were reproduced and published as a series of four engravings. They are humorous depictions of life in the streets ...
Port with the disembarkation of Cleopatra in Tarsus (1642), by Claude Lorrain, Musée du Louvre, Paris. Light in painting fulfills several objectives like, both plastic and aesthetic: on the one hand, it is a fundamental factor in the technical representation of the work, since its presence determines the vision of the projected image, as it affects certain values such as color, texture and ...
The Evening: Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 500 More images: Antibes. Matin: 1914 Antibes Morning: National Museum, Warsaw 501 More images: Juan-les-Pins. Soir: 1914 Juan-les-Pins. Evening: 502 More images: La Rochelle. Le bassin à flots (n°1) 1915 La Rochelle The Water Basin 1: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy 505 More images ...
A Seascape. The Coast of the Island of Rügen in Evening Light [1] (Danish: Et søstykke. Kysterne af Rügen set i aftenrøden efter en stormfuld dag, literally "A Seascape: The coast of Rügen seen in evening light after a stormy day") is an 1818 oil-on-canvas marine painting by J.C. Dahl, measuring 37 cm by 58.5 cm and now in the National Gallery of Denmark, which purchased it at auction in ...