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Category Archive: Painting

Calibrating your display in Monterey

Although it’s hidden away, your Mac’s display can still be set to use a custom colour profile. Here’s how to do that

May 23, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

Exhibition: Come to London to see Venice through Canaletto’s paintings

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Open daily from now until 25 September, it features 24 of the most wonderful paintings of Venice from the 1730s.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 2

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From Ondines, who kill men by their curse, to a frozen fountain in Agubbio, and parks in New York, Paris and Rome.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 1

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From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.

May 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun: surviving by her portraits

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A superb painter in pastels, she painted Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France, more than thirty times. She survived the revolution and terror to paint Napoleon’s youngest sister as a queen.

May 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 5: Colour and anarchy

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Themes from Saint-Tropez of grand trees, fishing boats with simultaneous contrast of colours, a portrait of his wife, and an anarchist idyll.

May 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 5: Fooling the brain

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From Veronese’s bravura brushstrokes to the crafted surface textures of lavish and heavy fabrics with Rembrandt.

May 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 5: Fauvism in mainstream painting

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In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.

May 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Don Quixote: Book 2 summary and contents 1

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From preparations for their third sally to the massacre of Don Pedro’s puppet theatre, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have trouble keeping out of trouble.

May 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Casualties of War 2

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Paul Nash and John Singer Sargent’s paintings for the Hall of Remembrance, the tragic loss of Eric Ravilious, a Serb painter executed in a concentration camp, and more.

May 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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