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Skying 9: A brief history

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The story of landscape paintings which are dominated by the sky, from the Dutch Golden Age to Surrealism.

September 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 5: When near Rome

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A selection of sky-rich oil sketches made in the Roman Campagna during the first half of the 19th century.

August 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Landscape oil sketches from Valenciennes to Pissarro

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Examples of the work of Thomas Jones, Constable, Corot, Blechen, Boudin, Jongkind, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sargent, Monet, and more.

February 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pigment: A tale of two yellows, Indian and Chrome

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Indian Yellow was thought to have been extracted from cow urine, but has been found in few paintings. Chrome Yellow was the mainstay of the Impressionists and the nineteenth century.

February 22, 2018 General, Painting, Technology

Coast: Wintering in Capri 1, to 1880

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Escape to the island of Capri, in the Bay of Naples, for a drop of sunshine in these superb paintings by Carl Blechen, Albert Bierstadt, and others.

October 18, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: To the lighthouse

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Lighthouses in the paintings of JMW Turner, Constable, Monet, Signac, Peder Balke, and others, from England to Turkey.

September 21, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: On a clear day – from the cliff, Friedrich to Gude

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There’s two ways to paint a coastal cliff: from the beach, or on the top. Surprisingly few landscape painters have opted for the latter. Here are some examples.

August 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Introduction to a new series on landscape painting

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Where land, sea, and sky meet. Sought-after and hugely popular in fine weather, the forces of nature are most obvious in storms. The cradle of Impressionism and more modern painting.

August 2, 2017 General, Painting

Painting outdoors in oils: a brief summary history

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It is hard to be sure when oil painting outdoors first started, but the oldest such paintings date from before 1700.

January 3, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Visible brushstrokes: 4. the curious case of Francesco Guardi

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An innovator with his painterly style, some have suggested that he was even Impressionist – a whole century before Monet.

December 17, 2015 Painting

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