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Life is Short: 1 Brilliant painters killed by tuberculosis

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From the brilliant pioneer animal painter Paulus Potter to the short and intense star of Amedeo Modigliani, King Death shortened the art of far too many painters.

January 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Missing Mud of Winter 1

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Mud was a common problem in the streets of cities, and on all the roads, tracks and paths of the country. Why isn’t it seen more in paintings before 1850?

December 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

From revenge at the Salon to the Nabis: the Robert-Fleurys 2

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Tony Robert-Fleury’s pupils included Lovis Corinth, Cecilia Beaux, Lydia Field Emmet, Marie Bashkirtseff, George Clausen, Édouard Vuillard, and Ker-Xavier Roussel.

March 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 1 Emergence (1883)

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The very large Paris Salon of 1883 introduced the public and critics to a new and growing movement in painting. It wasn’t Impressionism or Post-Impressionism, though.

December 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Autumn 1: 1573-1895

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From Arcimboldo’s vegetable portrait to the height of Impressionism with Monet and Pissarro, some of the finest paintings of the season.

October 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Umbrellas: Stop the rain

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Spring is here, in the UK the season of umbrellas. Here are paintings by Caillebotte, Krohg, Degas, Renoir, and others showing umbrellas used to shelter from the rain.

May 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

If you go down to the woods: leaf-peeping

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Paintings of trees in their magnificent autumn colours by Millais, Inness, Monet, Homer, Pissarro, Tom Thomson, Paul Nash, and more.

October 1, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Brief Candles: Marie Bashkirtseff, Bastien-Lepage’s brilliant pupil

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She claimed to be the master of the urban landscape, to complement Bastien-Lepage’s mastery of the countryside.

May 23, 2016 General, Painting

Brief Candles: Jules Bastien-Lepage 2

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Even the usually vituperative critic Roger Fry was forced to admit his importance to Monet and most other artists of the day.

May 21, 2016 General, Painting
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