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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

Pastels by Helleu

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Prodigy and friend of John Singer Sargent, he was a successful portrait-painter to the wealthy and a master pastellist.

August 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Blur in paintings: 2 depth and movement

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Blurring for dramatic effect, and to mimic photographic depth of field effects, were used in the 19th century, but motion blur came later.

August 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Magic Carpet: Carpets in paintings 1

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Paintings by Vermeer, Delaroche, Whistler, Gérôme, Waterhouse and others showing wonderful carpets and floors.

April 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Woman Sewing: By hand 1

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From Velázquez in the 1640s to Renoir in 1882, portraits and scenes of women sewing were popular. How did they develop?

April 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Sarah Bernhardt: Portraits of a superstar

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One of the first international superstars, she was an accomplished painter and sculptor herself. Here’s her life in portraits by her friends.

January 14, 2018 General, 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

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 4, After Impressionism

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Including superb paintings by Zorn, Marie Spartali Stillman, Boldini, van Gogh, Cézanne, Sargent, Demuth, and Signac.

September 11, 2017 General, Painting

Degas’ Circle: Before Impressionism

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Degas was nothing if not thoroughly sociable. Here are some of his more significant artistic friendships, with paintings.

August 22, 2017 General, Painting

Danseuses: 1 Largely innocent

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Putting Degas’ many paintings and drawings of the ballet and its dancers into context – here are contemporary paintings.

August 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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