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Cézanne

Colour Notes 2: Limited palettes

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A grisaille turned into a trompe l’oeil, symphonies in white, making the transition to oil paints, an exercise for pupils, and vibrant primary colours.

April 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

A cavalcade of colour: 1 yellow to blue

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A trip round the painter’s palette, with outstanding examples of well-known colours in use. Starts with yellow, then to red and finally to blue.

March 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 4 The struggle with yellow

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Yellow ochre, orpiment, Naples yellow, lead-tin yellow, Indian yellow, chrome yellow, and cadmium yellow – most toxic or at least harmful to someone.

January 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 16 Reflections

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From Dürer and Poussin to Cézanne and Hodler, reflections have been important in many landscape paintings.

December 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A short history of shadows in paintings 2

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Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.

November 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 12 Directing light

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With its central role in visual art, light and its source plays a critical role in composition. It’s also one of the challenges to those painting in the studio or in front of the motif.

November 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 11 Reduction

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From conventional composition in the early days of Impressionism, landscapes have been reduced, eventually ending up as areas of colour and texture.

November 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 8 Tearing the book up with trees

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How trees came to invade Impressionist landscape paintings, in direct contravention to established principles.

October 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 1 Introduction to a new series

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Horizon, planes of foreground, middle distance and background, repoussoir and framing, rhythm, reflections and panoramas – examples of compositional techniques.

September 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: Eccentricities

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A parrot, coral, snuffed-out candles, human skulls, worn-out boots, a bottle of poison and a syringe: all objects in still life paintings.

August 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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