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Category Archive: General

Ukrainian painters: Serhii Vasylkivskyi

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Born in Izyum, he spent most of his life in Kharkiv after training in St Petersburg and touring Europe and Egypt. Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes.

February 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays: Contents

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Table of contents listing plays in the order they were written, with listings of major artists covered, and links to each article.

February 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 189

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 189. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Closing […]

February 6, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

A Weekend with Maximilien Luce’s ‘muscular’ paintings 2

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By the start of the 20th century, he had abandoned Neo-Impressionist for Post-Impressionism, and continued painting well after the First World War.

February 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend with Maximilien Luce’s ‘muscular’ paintings 1

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He started as an Impressionist before joining the Neo-Impressionists. Specialising in industrial landscapes and nocturnes, here are paintings from the first half of his life.

February 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 189

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Closing at the […]

February 4, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Introduction to a new series on paintings that have changed

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Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.

February 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 31 Two or more scenes in one image

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Instead of splitting scenes into separate frames as in comics, in the Renaissance they’d be integrated into a single image

February 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian painters: Arkhyp Kuindzhi

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Born in Mariupol when it was a hub for oxcart transport, he painted unusual light, the River Dnipro, and the coast of Crimea.

January 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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