https://publishinghouse.org/tags/painting/ Recent content in painting on Publishing House Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/how-to-look-at-gauguin-now/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/how-to-look-at-gauguin-now/ A museum guide stands in front of Arearea and points. The group behind her looks where she directs them. This is how most people encounter Gauguin — mediated, framed, explained. The painting on the wall at the Musée d’Orsay is one of the most reproduced images in the Western canon: two Tahitian women seated in a lush landscape, a red dog in the foreground, the color saturated to a pitch that has no equivalent in European painting before it. https://publishinghouse.org/pieter-aertsen-and-the-dignity-of-the-market-floor/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://publishinghouse.org/pieter-aertsen-and-the-dignity-of-the-market-floor/ The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna holds one of the strongest concentrations of Flemish and Netherlandish painting outside the Low Countries themselves, and the Aertsen panels in its collection are among the least-celebrated works in a building that also contains Bruegel’s Tower of Babel and Vermeer’s Art of Painting. That context matters. Hung among dynastic portraits and Italian altarpieces, the market scenes register their strangeness more clearly than they would in a museum organized around genre painting as a category.