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Category Archive: Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 2

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Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron.

May 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 1

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Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others.

May 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 1 Beyond Neoclassicism

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Overview of David’s Neoclassicism, his teacher Guérin, the influence of Constable and Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa, his friends, and rival Ingres.

May 19, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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Those of you who rely on Twitter to keep you in touch with new articles posted in this […]

May 18, 2023 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, Updates

Reading visual art: 56 Tortoises

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Although unusual in paintings, tortoises can have several different readings, from love to slow and faltering political reforms.

May 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 5 Mirror play

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Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror.

May 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Abraham Mintchine

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Trained at Kyiv Art School, he went to Berlin 1923, and on to Paris a couple of years later. Almost all his known paintings come from the last 6 years of his life.

May 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 12 Extinguishing the line

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The Greeks had three objectives: to extinguish the line of succession in the Trojan royal family; to raze the city to the ground; and to seize booty.

May 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend with painters in Skagen 2

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With PS Krøyer, Laurits Tuxen, and a British visitor to the artists’ colony at Skagen, Adrian Stokes.

May 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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

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