Dan Darlington
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Café Couple (Paar im Café), Otto Dix, 1921, MoMA: Drawings and Prints
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Size: 20 x 16 1/8" (50.8 x 41 cm)
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Abducting horse, 1823, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes
Medium: drypoint,etching,paper
Open-Air Painter. Winter-Motif from Åsögatan 145, Stockholm, Carl Larsson, 19??, Nationalmuseum, SWE
Carl Larsson’s monumental painting Open-Air Painter has been seen as a manifesto for Nordic outdoor realism, which came into style in the 1880s. In addition to being a comment on the new practice of painting outdoors, it illustrates the repercussions this had on Scandinavian artists, who were now expected to work directly before their subject even in the cold winter. This specifically Nordic dimension of portraying the seasons attracted great attention when the painting was shown in Paris in 1886.