The arrival and writing of letters, a milkmaid at work, a mother removing nits from her daughter’s hair, spinning, drinking lemonade, and learning to play the lute.
Category Archive: Painting
The yolk of fresh hens’ eggs used as a binder for fine and thin brushstrokes, from about 1250-1500, and revived in 19th and 20th centuries.
Visiting the ‘rottenpockets’ full of tormented souls guilty of pimping, seduction, flattery, selling church privileges, nepotism, fortune-telling, and corruption in public office.
Matching views painted by Pissarro and Cézanne of the Côte des Boeufs, a rainbow, the village in winter snow, and Pissarro’s gradual change to Pointillism.
From Pissarro’s early realist landscapes of 1867, the landscapes of a forgotten Impressionist, to the first outdoor paintings of Paul Cézanne made alongside Pissarro’s easel.
Gravediggers, Christ as a gardener, itinerant foresters, road workers, snow-clearers, a vegetable gardener plagued by moles, and sandcastles on the beach.
Themes of exhausted mothers with sick children, the tired out seamstress and her descent into prostitution, the failure of law enforcement, and documenting those living in Skagen.
Citizens of the Dutch Republic joined organisations such as guilds for different occupational groups, civic militia, and the administration of charity. And they loved to be painted in group portraits.
Painting onto dry plaster using ‘secco’ isn’t durable, so ‘buon fresco’ was devised to apply paint to wet plaster instead. The technique is complex, painstaking, and resulted in the death of some of its exponents.
On a barren, sandy plain, naked spirits suffer under showers of flakes of fire. Blasphemers lie flat on their backs, sodomites keep moving, and usurers crouch with purses strung from their necks.
The Eclectic Light Company 