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Painting the Fountain of Life 2

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From Ondines, who kill men by their curse, to a frozen fountain in Agubbio, and parks in New York, Paris and Rome.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Easter: Crucifixion

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A staple product of many pro painters in western Europe for over half a millennium, and required by every church and chapel.

April 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Next Year in Paintings: Rosa Bonheur, Piero di Cosimo, Léon Bonnat and others

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Among the 2022 anniversaries are the 500th of the death of Piero di Cosimo, the centenary of the death of Léon Bonnat who taught Sargent and Munch, and the birth of animal painter Rosa Bonheur.

January 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Profound Tranquility: the paintings of Alphonse Osbert

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He was a friend of the Divisionist Georges Seurat, but in the late 1880s became a strict Symbolist. A small but fine selection of his paintings.

January 23, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Martyrs’ Mountain: Paintings of Montmartre 1

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The hill that rises from the densely-packed streets of Paris, painted by Jongkind, Alfred Sisley, Ilya Repin, Renoir, and others.

January 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Salammbô and Symbolism

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A story of horrific brutality set in Carthage after the First Punic War may not seem ideal for paintings. But at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, it was.

October 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Teacher of John Singer Sargent, Edvard Munch, and more: Léon Bonnat

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The teacher of Caillebotte, Eakins, Munch, John Singer Sargent, Toulouse-Lautrec and many other artists. But almost forgotten himself.

January 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Detail, the painterly, and the abstract: 2 Examples from the Masters

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Rembrandt’s Jewish Bride; Gérôme’s Carpet Merchant; Sargent’s Arab Woman; Cézanne’s Forest Scene. Each at different levels of detail.

January 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Naturalism of Gustave Caillebotte 1

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A prolific artist over a decade, his paintings remain as enigmatic today as they were then. Was he an Impressionist, or one of the major Naturalists? Works from the 1870s.

April 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Edvard Munch: A life in paintings 1884-1892

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First article outlining Munch’s life and work. His early works shocked critics in Norway, and in Berlin brought an exhibition to a premature end.

April 17, 2017 General, Painting

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