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The Wanderer in paintings 2

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The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?

August 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 1

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Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.

August 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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

Mysterious Places of Arnold Böcklin 1

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A succession of impending landscapes which culminate in ‘Villa by the Sea’, a mysterious Mediterranean view. An early symbolist?

October 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Balcony: Inside Out

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Views from a balcony, notably developed by Gustave Caillebotte in 1880, but continued in paintings by Lovis Corinth, and Pierre Bonnard.

May 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 6 Walpurgis Night

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Faust and Mephistopheles attend the witches’ celebrations on the Brocken peak in the Harz Mountains – a wild night, it seems.

February 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Goethe’s Faust: 0 Introduction to a new series

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Viewed as classic and fit for narrative painting, Faust is about good and evil, a powerful story which has inspired powerful paintings.

December 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting and the Unconscious: Carl Gustav Carus 2

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In which he establishes separate style and themes from Friedrich, paints some wonderful landscapes in Italy, and explores the nocturne.

December 2, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Painting and the Unconscious: Carl Gustav Carus 1

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What is a professor of obstetrics doing learning to paint with Caspar David Friedrich? Also an important precursor to Darwin, and a friend of Goethe – and wonderful paintings as well.

December 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting
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