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Reading visual art: 27 Eagle and owl

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Two birds associated with myth: Zeus’s eagle, often used to indicate his presence in disguise, and the symbol of night and wisdom, the owl.

January 18, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 18 Spinning

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Spinning natural fibres like wool into yarn was “women’s work” and had several connotations, here explored in paintings, and the origin of the word ‘spinster’.

December 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 9: Into thin air

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Fabrics and clothing shown in paintings by Manet, Monet, Renoir and Degas show the broad range seen at the time of Impressionism.

June 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted cupids for Valentine’s Day

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How we got from one of the most senior gods, and a winged young man, to a chubby infant armed with a bow and arrow, let alone an unknown former saint.

February 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Silent Hunters of the Night: paintings of owls 1

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Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.

January 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 8 Tragedy, Orestes 2

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Having murdered his own mother in revenge for her murder of Agamemnon, Orestes is hounded down and driven mad by the Furies.

December 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 3 Power

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Bishop’s crosier, monarch’s sceptre, field-marshal’s baton, or just another fashion accessory?

April 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Eos (Aurora), the dawn

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Wonderful paintings by Reni, Fragonard, Evelyn De Morgan, Poussin, Rubens, and a very unusual late Fantin-Latour.

March 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Hemera (Dies), the Day

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Seldom painted, except in Bouguereau’s pair of paintings showing her mother Nyx and Hemera.

February 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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