Camille Pissarro: The House of the Deaf Woman and the Belfry at Eragny – 1886 Indianapolis Museum of Art Galleries, USA This canvas was painted at the height of Pissarro’s zeal for the new ideas of Georges Seurat and is […]
Théo van Rysselberghe Théo van Rysselberghe was born in Ghent. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in that city before moving to Brussels for further study. In 1882 he won a travel scholarship which enabled him to visit […]
Camille Pissarro: Apple Harvest – 1888 Dallas Museum of Art, USA On a sunny autumn day four labourers are engaged in bringing in the apple harvest – their attention focused on a lone tree set on a hill. As the […]
Camille Pissarro In summer 1885 Pissarro met Paul Signac at the studio of their mutual friend Armand Guillaumin (who Signac had met the previous year while painting on the Île Saint-Louis). Signac subsequently introduced Seurat to Pissarro who, after watching Seurat […]
Anarchism Anarchism is a generic term used to encompass a number of political ideas but central to all of them is a rejection of the state and other forms of authority or hierarchical organisation in favour of a society based […]
Anarchist Unrest and The Trial of the Thirty On 9 December 1893 an anarchist by the name of Auguste Vaillant threw a home-made bomb from the public gallery into the Chamber of Deputies slightly injuring some twenty people. This attack […]