Alma Tadema Paintings
In a time that was changing the face of artistic creation, when post-Impressionism and the modernist tendencies of Fauvism, Cubism and Futurism were giving rise to abstract imagery and radical stylistic choices, Alma Tadema propagated a return to classical subjects, finely tuned lines and regal colors. While financially successful during his lifetime, his work quickly faded into oblivion after his death.
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ARTifacts - Fun facts about Lawrence Alma-Tadema
The Marbelous Painter
Throughout his career Dutch Academicism, Classicism and Romanticism painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, was renowned for his incredibly realistic depiction of marble on the canvas, to the extent that he acquired the tongue in cheek nickname, the ‘Marbelous Painter’. It wasn’t just the painting of marble that he excelled at however, with his representations of flowers, textures, and his renderings of other hard reflective surfaces like pottery and metals also bringing him much acclaim.
The Education Of The Children Of Clovis
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s 1861 oil on canvas work The Education Of The Children Of Clovis is often thought of as one of his seminal works, and a painting that would set the tone and style for many of his greatest paintings in subsequent years. The oil painting features a Merovingian theme that would occupy many of Alma-Tadema’s early productions and we’re going to take a closer look at how the painting came about, and the effect that it had on Alma-Tadema’s career.
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