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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

Detail, the painterly, and the abstract: 1 A matter of scale

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Were Turner’s and Cézanne’s late paintings becoming more abstract? What distinguishes representational painting from abstract?

January 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Brief Candles: Charles Laval was not Paul Gauguin

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First shown in the Salon at the age of only 18, Vincent van Gogh spotted his talent. Not only was it cut short, but his paintings are vanishing.

November 30, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Alessandro Magnasco, a maverick

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His rough and gestural style turned his dark tales into the stuff of nightmares.

April 10, 2016 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 9. A tentative history at last

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We still associate brushmarks with sketchiness, speed of painting, spontaneity, bravura, and panache – and smooth paint surfaces, assembled from multiple layers and glazes, as being heartless mechanical essays in technique.

January 14, 2016 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 8. Painterly portraits

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Portraits by Reynolds, Gainsborough, Kauffmann, and others show extensive brushstrokes.

January 12, 2016 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 7. Painterly marks beyond Venice

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Was painterly style a Venetian phenomenon, or was it more widespread in the early sixteenth century?

January 9, 2016 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 6. Titian, Bassano, Veronese, El Greco

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We should add these Masters to the growing list of those with ‘painterly’ style, and consider whether Impressionism was a development of Venetian ‘colorito’ painting?

December 27, 2015 General, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 5. Book review: Brushstroke and Emergence, James D Herbert

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This extended essay is likely to change much of our thinking about painting, perhaps art in general. It may be the most important book about art of this decade.

December 21, 2015 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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