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Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Magic Carpet: Carpets in paintings 1

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Paintings by Vermeer, Delaroche, Whistler, Gérôme, Waterhouse and others showing wonderful carpets and floors.

April 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The story of painted narrative 1

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Easily told in words, stories are harder to paint. Here are five main methods used, explained and shown in examples from the masters.

February 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Summary and contents

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New genres in literature gave the public a taste for different forms of narrative. Here’s a short account of the response in ‘problem pictures’ from Hunt to Collier.

September 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Across continents

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Two paintings from Edgar Degas have still, 150 years later, defied all attempts to resolve their narratives. Another from Britain, and one from the American Eastman Johnson.

August 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Beginnings 1850-60

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In the 19th century, readers enjoyed detective and ‘mystery’ novels. From 1850, artists like William Holman Hunt and Berthold Woltze tried the same in paint.

August 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Balcony: Outside In

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David and Bathsheba, Romeo and Juliet – balconies are a useful device for painter, and not just to tell stories. Goya, Manet, and beyond.

May 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

King Arthur’s women: 1 Morgan le Fay

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The Circe of Arthurian legend, for much of the time she battles with King Arthur. But when he is mortally wounded in battle, they are reconciled. Stories in paintings.

May 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

And When Did You Last See William Frederick Yeames?

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He specialised in history paintings of the Tudor and Stuart period, and later painted problem pictures to puzzle the viewer. He died 100 years ago today.

May 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Movement in Painting: migrant artists

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Many of the great painters have been migrants. Here are examples from Canaletto to Sargent. Suppress migration, and art will be stifled.

December 18, 2016 General, Life, Painting

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