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There’s no smoke without painting 2

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Smoke in paintings by Poussin, Millet, Homer, Sargent, Waterhouse, Rossetti, and others with more subtle meanings about wind, magic, and gambling.

November 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 6 Science and technology

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From physicists to photographers developing their plates, Naturalist painters recorded the science and technology of their time.

January 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The best of 2018’s paintings and articles 1

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Review of paintings and related articles published here in the first half of 2018, starring Fuseli, Klimt, Liljefors, Sassoferrato, and Hodler.

December 30, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 4 Art and the State

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Naturalist painting both supported the State, and attacked it – sometimes so much that works had to be suppressed. The real history of art at the end of the 19th century.

December 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 1 Emergence (1883)

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The very large Paris Salon of 1883 introduced the public and critics to a new and growing movement in painting. It wasn’t Impressionism or Post-Impressionism, though.

December 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Alexandre Cabanel and his pupils: the pupils

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Eight of Cabanel’s most precocious and brilliant pupils. Only one won the Prix de Rome, and the others went on to develop Naturalist art. Was Cabanel the father of this new movement?

August 5, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Faites vos jeux: gambling on canvas 2, after 1850

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The late 19th century took gambling upmarket into glitzy casinos. Seen in paintings by Courbet, Rossetti, Félix Vallotton, and others.

May 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

A Civic Starkness: Paintings of Eugène Buland

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Stark and rigidly formal, his paintings of contemporary life look like formal photos. Another major (and forgotten) Naturalist.

March 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

By the Sweat of their Brow – people at work 2

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From 1880, artists concentrated on social aspects of work. They questioned whether young children should be at work, and the role of the worker in society.

February 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology
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