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Bonington

Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 26: The Merchant of Venice

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A controversial story of a moneylender getting revenge when a borrower defaults, and demanding a pound of flesh.

November 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 9 One piazza, eight views

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A tough compositional challenge: a square that isn’t even rectangular, with unequal sides and a high tower. Solutions by Canaletto and other masters.

October 29, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Life is Short: 1 Brilliant painters killed by tuberculosis

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From the brilliant pioneer animal painter Paulus Potter to the short and intense star of Amedeo Modigliani, King Death shortened the art of far too many painters.

January 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Aerial Perspective in paintings: 2 Development and rejection

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Its peak with Bonington, Friedrich, Corot and others. Decline in Impressionism to deliberate omission in ‘primitives’ such as Cézanne and Astrup.

November 29, 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

Tilting at Windmills – in paintings, 2

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Paintings by Bonington, Jongkind, Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Piet Mondrian show the latter years of windmills in northern Europe.

March 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 2

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Friedrich, Turner, Palmer and Bonnard are among the artists shown, with surprises by courtesy of Cézanne.

June 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 1

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Compositional techniques usually involving foreground trees which increase the depth of a picture. Explained and illustrated.

June 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 3, 1850-1890

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From Richard Parkes Bonington, through AW Hunt, John Brett, Edward Poynter, Delacroix, Rosa Bonheur, Daumier, Gustave Moreau, and Winslow Homer.

September 10, 2017 General, Painting

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