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Reading visual art: 30 Frozen motion and blur

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Perception changed with photography, and we came to interpret blur, lines and other devices as indicating motion.

January 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from 1600-1947, and in Asia

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Even Poussin used this narrative form. Here are other example right up to 1947, including paintings by Corot, Munch, Corinth, and others.

August 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 69 – Aeneas on Delos

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Aeneas’ first port of call is the island of Delos, where its king and priest tells the story of his four daughters turned into white doves. With a superb landscape by Claude.

January 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Motion and photographic artefact

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What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.

December 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 60 – Daedalion, Ceyx and Halcyone turned into birds

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Chione, who had been raped by Mercury and Apollo, is silenced by Diana’s arrow. Her father is transformed into a hawk, and King Ceyx and his grieving widow are changed into kingfishers.

November 24, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 49 – Transgender marriage

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A girl is brought up as a boy. All goes well until they want to marry. Then the gods intervene. A very modern story from 2,000 years ago, with paintings.

October 16, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 48 – Dryope, and an incestuous couple

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Two transformations: Dryope changes into a Lotus Tree, and the incestuous Byblis becomes a spring.

October 13, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 44 Shape-shifters and death by gluttony

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A maze of myths about shape-shifting, Neptune, and the sea leads to two wonderful but puzzling paintings.

September 29, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting
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