Vlaho Bukovac - In The Bath [1908]

Vlaho Bukovac - In The Bath [1908], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Vlaho Bukovac (July 5, 1855 – April 23, 1922) was a Croatian painter. Bukovac was born Biagio Faggioni in the town of Cavtat south of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia. As a son born to a family of mixed Croatian and Italian ancestry, his father was an Italian Croat from Genoa, while his mother was of explicitly Croatian descent. 

Besides being an artist who followed the established canons there was another Bukovac who followed his own inner impulses of artistic creation. Liberated artistic expression, which was called Impressionism, developed in the spirit of the artists who kept gathering in modernism-oriented marginal galleries in Paris in the 1870s. He knew the spirit of academism and, on the other hand, he felt the spirit of Impressionistic freedom. Having accepted modern principles, Bukovac painted casual pictures, using liberated strokes of the brush, in the pointillist technique. He died in Prague.

[Oil on canvas, 60 x 90 cm]