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Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Carroll Beckwith’s paintings 2: The Spanish dancer and a jealous husband

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Nesbit’s new husband shot dead the acclaimed architect Stanford White in Madison Square Garden, in a fit of insane jealousy.

June 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Carroll Beckwith’s paintings 1: Paris and the under-age model

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By 1901, he was fast approaching his fifties and rather staid. This portrait of Evelyn Nesbit was quite out of character, and nearly got him killed later.

June 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Whiskers: beards in paintings 2

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How William Merritt Chase’s beard changed, beards in literature such as ‘Faust’, Bluebeard, Redbeard, and beware of the moustache.

July 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 1

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It’s our faces, more than any other part of the body, that make us human. Paintings of veiled and masked faces by Pelez, Morelli and others.

June 19, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Brief Candles: Dennis Miller Bunker – American Impressionist

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In less than a decade of painting, he rose as a brilliant star among America’s Impressionists. Why then has he been forgotten?

July 22, 2017 General, Painting

Carolus-Duran: Portraits and pupils 2

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To commemorate the centenary of his death, some of the best portraits of the 19th century, and more.

February 17, 2017 General, Painting

William Merritt Chase: a life in painting, 1 to 1883

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First in a series detailing his life and work. This covers his training, and first establishing his studio in New York. Plenty of his paintings are included.

October 11, 2016 General, Painting

Into the Light: Carroll Beckwith, the under-age model, and the jealous husband

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The model’s mother claimed she was 16, she is almost nude, and a few years later, her jealous husband committed murder.

August 29, 2016 General, Painting

Dancer: John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and James Carroll Beckwith

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One dancer, three painters, four portraits of the dancer, and two portraits of Chase himself.

August 28, 2016 General, Painting
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