Ilya Repin | A Parisian Café, 1875

Repin's time as an academic pensioner in Paris 1873-76 was a fruitful as well as confusing time for the rising young star of Russian realist painting and he responded to a bewildering variety of new stimuli with enthusiasm and uncertainty, painting both Russian motifs as well as the sights of contemporary France.

In particular it was a period of burgeoning experimentation as Repin (1844-1930) took cognisance of modern French artistic developments, the major outcome of which was his large canvas "A Parisian Café", which was sold in London in June 2011 for a record price by the artist.

Dorothy Spangler, 1928 | Parisienne walkways

Inspired by the great impressionist masters, Dorothy Spangler paints enchanting European scenes.

Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothy Spangler has spent most of her life in Northern California, which provides a perfect environment for her love of color and light.

After graduating from the College of San Mateo with a major in art, she studied for several years under the distinguished California plein-air painter, William Ward of Los Altos.

Kathryn Trotter | Impressionist painter

Having been nurtured by a family deeply immersed in art, interiors, fashion, travel, and other diverse creative pursuits, Kathryn Trotter’s artistry is inspired by a lifetime steeped in beauty and adventure.

Kathryn Morris Trotter, a native Mississippian, claims that painting is her greatest passion.

After graduating from The University of Texas in Austin, Trotter had an innate curiosity about life, travel, and the ineffable creative world.

Her passion propelled her ventures into the corporate world of fashion, interiors and textile design, which have been highly influential in her subject and style of painting.

Paris painting

"Paris is an ocean.

Explore it, and you still won’t know its depths".

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Honoré de Balzac

"Parigi è come un oceano. Gettateci una sonda e non ne conoscerete mai la profondità.

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Honoré de Balzac

Thierry Duval, 1957 | Paris watercolors

Thierry Duval was born in Paris, France.

His watercolors are characterized by a strong light and precision in drawing, being almost or hyperrealist in the results mainly in his Paris watercolors.

By using glazing technique he works in several steps up to get the final, very realistic result.

As was said, light is strong in almost all his artworks.

Romanticism | Art Story and Sitemap

Let's dive into the wonderfully evocative world of Romantic art!

Romantic art, flourishing roughly from the late 18th through the 19th centuries, is a fascinating and complex movement that fundamentally shifted focus away from Enlightenment ideals of reason and order towards a celebration of emotion, imagination, and the sublime.

Eugène Delacroix | Liberty Leading the People (28 July 1830) | Musée du Louvre

Le Pont des Arts, Paris

Le Pont des Arts / The Bridge of Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine.

It links the Institut de France and the central square (cour carrée) of the Palais du Louvre, (which had been termed the "Palais des Arts" under the First French Empire).

Between 1802-1804, under the reign of Napoleon I, a nine-arch metallic bridge for pedestrians was constructed at the location of the present day Pont des Arts: this was the first metal bridge in Paris.

The engineers Louis-Alexandre de Cessart and Jacques Dillon initially conceived of a bridge which would resemble a suspended garden, with trees, banks of flowers and benches.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Le Pont des Arts, Paris, 1867-1868

Oscar Alvarez Pardo, 1967 | Abstract Figurative painter

Spanish self-taught artist and painter Oscar Álvarez Pardo was born, living and working in Zaragoza, Spain.

"In my watercolors, after years of dedication and learning to master this so difficult medium, there is an initial stage devoted to a hard work essentially realistic... mainly portraits and seascapes become a constant in my work.

In what could be a second stage I begin to introducer the fantasy in my paintings, realistic work alternating with others of fantástco court".