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Paintings of 1920: Genre and landscapes 1

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A party of landsfolk riding in horsedriven hay wagon, the artist’s mother sewing in Nabi style, tennis in Rhode Island, and a deserted table by the sea.

December 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Harvest Home in paintings – the harvest

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Superb paintings by Bruegel, Samuel Palmer, Daubigny, Jules Breton, Anna Ancher, Félix Vallotton, and others.

September 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Modern Christmas, paintings 1867-1921

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From Dante Gabriel Rossetti, through Lovis Corinth, to Alphonse Mucha and Christian Krohg – modern masterpieces.

December 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Umbrellas: Stop the sun

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Borrowed from the Church, parasols became an accessory of the aristocracy, then for all who were fashionable. They went from black to white, then Japanese.

May 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Woman Sewing: Slave to the sewing machine

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Did the sewing machine liberate, subjugate, or was it the start of the road to corruption? Contrasting paintings of its impact on women (and men).

April 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Woman Sewing: By hand 2

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What made images of women sewing so popular in the late 19th century? Here are some of the best from about 1885 to the Nabis in the 20th century.

April 22, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: The drowned man

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Young boys and fishermen – their lives cut short. Artists including Dürer, Géricault, Malczewski, and Michael Ancher paint the tragedy.

January 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Static views

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The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.

December 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Coast: By the light of the moon, 2 after 1850

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More superb coastal nocturnes by Aivazovsky, Atkinson Grimshaw, Winslow Homer, Edvard Munch, and others.

November 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: To the lighthouse

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Lighthouses in the paintings of JMW Turner, Constable, Monet, Signac, Peder Balke, and others, from England to Turkey.

September 21, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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