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Category Archive: Life

Colour Notes 3: Colour temperature and constancy

“A human observer is able to recognise the colour of objects irrespective of the light used to illuminate the objects.” “Colour constancy does not exist in humans.” Which is right?

May 3, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Don Quixote 56: The penance paid

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Sancho devises a trick so he can complete his penance and get rich. The pair meet a character from the book, and discover they have literary doubles.

May 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Open Door 2: paintings from 1890

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Harriet Backer’s canonical masterwork, Nikolai Astrup shows his technical skill, two wonderful views by Pierre Bonnard, and from Eric Ravilious.

May 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Open Door 1: paintings 1400-1890

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From Jan van Eyck to Caillebotte and Claus, these paintings show the view beyond an open doorway, commonly as a means of incorporating a landscape.

April 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Kazimierz Sichulski’s Galician Landscapes 2

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His magnificent triptych The Hutsul Madonna, and other paintings, as he lived between Poland and Lviv, a distinguished artist and teacher in both.

April 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 2: Les Andelys

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In the Spring, he changed style to Pointillism, then spent the summer at Les Andelys, where he painted a series of fine views, before ‘The Dining Room’, a masterly interior.

April 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 2: Texture in oils

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From the fur-trimmed cloaks of Jan van Eyck, to the soft folds of Lisa Gherardini’s dress: clothing and fabrics painted in oils.

April 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 2: Limited palettes

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A grisaille turned into a trompe l’oeil, symphonies in white, making the transition to oil paints, an exercise for pupils, and vibrant primary colours.

April 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Don Quixote 55: Resurrection

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Arriving in the courtyard of the Duke and Duchess’s castle, a young woman’s body lies on a catafalque. It’s Altisidora, who died of unrequited love for Don Quixote.

April 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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