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Read • John Russell’s obsession with the French island Belle-Ile
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, creative exchange between France and Japan had a profound effect on art and design — and sparked the … -
Read • Japonisme: Japanese aesthetics in France
The influence of Japanese aesthetics in France during the nineteenth century proved pivotal to a number of modern art movements. Coined in 1872 to describe … -
Read • The allure of the savage beauty of Belle-Île
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the fierce wildness and ‘savage beauty’ of Belle-Île, the small island off the coast of Quiberon … -
Read • Passage to Belle-Île: A motif for John Russell’s paintings
John Russell, like his contemporaries Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, were particularly captivated and inspired by the small island of Belle-Île, with its vivid …