Hotspur🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦<p>"Basket of Roses," Henri Biva, 1891.</p><p>Biva (1848-1929) was a Realist/Naturalist painter of landscapes and the occasional still life. His work is recognizable for a degree of realism and attention to detail that prefigures the photorealism that would rise in the late 20th century.</p><p>I once showed one of his landscapes to a friend, who gazed at it for ages, then said, "You can almost HEAR that painting," as in it was easy to imagine the calls of birds and buzzing of insects. It was as if one could step through the frame into a lovely, but realistic, scene.</p><p>His attention to detail, his skill as a colorist, and his ability to depict natural light and make it LOOK natural on the canvas, are remarkable to me. He is scandalously overlooked and deserves greater attention....a lot of his work may not look like much at a glance (views of meadows or wooded glades or the shore of a pond or creek) but reward your attention with their amazing detail and realism. Go look him up.</p><p>Happy Flower Friday!</p><p>From a private collection.</p><p><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Naturalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Naturalism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/AcademicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicArt</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/HenriBiva" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HenriBiva</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/FlowerFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlowerFriday</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Realism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Realism</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Roses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Roses</span></a></p>