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Category Archive: Life

A weekend with painters in Skagen 1

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With the Danish and other Nordic Impressionists, Anna Ancher, her husband Michael, and Christian Krohg, in this artists’ colony.

May 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: Introduction

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Two of his paintings secured support for Greek independence, another had to be hidden from public view because it glorified liberty, and he was a major influence over Impressionism.

May 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 4 Cast shadows in landscapes

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How to paint a landscape with faithful and coherent cast shadows, why most painters don’t do so, and a few get it wrong.

May 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 55 Lions

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In the Roman arena, with a runaway slave, sparing the life of Daniel, at the feet of St Jerome and St Rufina, and snoring gently on the rug.

May 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Arnold Lakhovskyi

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He studied in Odesa, Munich and St Petersburg, then painted in Russia until he emigrated to Paris in 1925, and on to New York in 1933.

May 9, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 11 Paris killed and the Trojan Horse

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Ajax goes mad, then falls on his sword. The Greeks are told they need their master-archer and Achilles’ son, but still have to come up with a way of entering the city of Troy.

May 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Pyramus and Thisbe

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The model for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, this couple committed suicide when each presumed they had brought the death of the other.

May 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Forbidden Love: Hero and Leander

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Byron, no stranger to forbidden love, swam across the Dardanelles in 1810, retracing the strokes of the legendary Leander who died trying to reach his lover Hero.

May 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 3 Cast shadows in figurative painting

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Leonardo da Vinci studied different types of shade and shadow, but recommended painters not to depict cast shadows in their paintings. This explains why.

May 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 54 Music B

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More paintings of music, from the Aesthetic watercolour of Marie Spartali Stillman to folk dance, and Vuillard’s friends playing in his apartment.

May 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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