Willie Doherty (b. 1959)

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Willie Doherty (Irish, b. 1959) studied at Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast. For three decades, his films and photographs have explored aspects of landscape, trauma, and political turmoil in his native city of Derry, Northern Ireland.

The Apogee of Abstraction

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The following essay is excerpted from the 2007 exhibition catalogue Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, which showcased promised bequests of the Hoffman, Rachofsky, and Rose families, in conjunction with works from the Museum's previously acquired contemporary holdings.   

Johan Barthold Jongkind (1819-1891)

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Dutch landscape painter and printmaker Johan Barthold Jongkind was born in Lattrop in 1819. He studied at The Hague under Romantic painter Andreas Schelfhout and in 1846 was given a grant to study in Paris with Eugène Isabey. While in Paris he also studied the figure at the studio of F.E.

Impasto

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Impasto refers to the technique or result of applying paint in thick masses.
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