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Bastien-Lepage

Ukrainian painters: Marie Bashkirtseff

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Born near Chuhuiv, she settled in Paris where she trained and rose to success as Jules Bastien-Lepage’s protege, then died at the age of 25.

January 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Modern Christmas paintings: Adorations

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Modern interpretations of the adorations of the shepherds and the three kings or magi, from William Blake to Sichulski’s triptychs in 1938.

December 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 22 Feet

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Barefoot and sometimes surprising, as Christ washes the disciples’ feet, and other feet are missing altogether. Barefoot means poverty too.

December 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 21 Footwear

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Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical.

December 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Coming home to a real fire in paintings 1

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Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.

December 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the vegetable garden 2

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Children on the cabbage patch, those toiling with the potatoes, digging beetroots, and a couple of unusual paintings with cucumbers and the true vegetable gardener.

November 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the River Thames in paintings: 2 Lambeth to the estuary

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Completing this river cruise, from Canaletto’s view of Westminster, through a Frost Fair, to John Constable’s Headlight Castle.

September 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 15: Hamlet 2

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Paintings of the death of Ophelia, from the first by Delacroix in 1838 to an etching from 1889. The most popular scene which happens entirely off-stage.

September 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 8: Rags and tatters

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Paintings showing the ragged tatters work by peasants and labourers, from social realism and Naturalism between 1850-90.

June 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds

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The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.

December 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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