The light and colour lack any sense of dynamism, of movement. Seurat is not a Constable, or a Monet. As a landscape painter, he has a very different agenda.
It was Toulouse-Lautrec’s ability to use innovation in combination with his flexible, fluid line which made him a pioneering master of poster design.
Mark Rothko favoured great size and enormous squares of colour hovering on top of each other, sometimes strongly contrasted.
John Sell Cotman is one of the greatest landscape artists, yet he is rarely celebrated or acknowledged as he should be.
I’ve been delighted by the work of Paul Klee since I was a schoolboy. You may say that his work is indeed school-boyish, indeed rather
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