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Art and Science: 0 Contents

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An illustrated table of contents for the whole of this series, with listings of featured artists, pigments, etc.

April 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 14 Back to alchemy

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Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.

March 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 4 The struggle with yellow

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Yellow ochre, orpiment, Naples yellow, lead-tin yellow, Indian yellow, chrome yellow, and cadmium yellow – most toxic or at least harmful to someone.

January 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Palmyra, paintings, and cultural vandalism

Vasari praised Masaccio’s fresco, then six years later painted over parts of it, and put his altarpiece in front, obscuring it for nearly 300 years.

April 24, 2016 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Recommended art history reading

As with any subject, there is a lot of information available about art history, when you know where to look, and how.

April 15, 2016 General, Painting

Panama paintings: how the rich impoverish art

Sequestering art in freeports is little different in effect from the Nazis’ looting works of art across Europe.

April 14, 2016 General, Painting

The suppression of great art

Why was Vermeer forgotten, or van Gogh ignored, or Western-style painting in Japan suppressed?

August 29, 2015 General, Life, Painting

Arts in Hard Times

Why Apple should be giving more to charity, and how that should include the arts.

August 10, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Book Review: Poussin et Dieu (Poussin and God), Milovanovic and Szanto

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This Poussin exhibition may not have attracted the same publicity as the recent “Late Rembrandt”, but this book is a milestone in art history, and an excellent reference in its own right.

May 25, 2015 Painting

Book Review: Keeping an Eye Open, Julian Barnes

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An important collection of essays which are extremely well written, and well worth reading, and reading again.

May 21, 2015 General, Language, Painting
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