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Art and Science: 5 Colour theory

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Colour theory from the ancient Greeks to Munsell, via several artists including Leonardo da Vinci and Phillip Otto Runge.

January 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Book Review: Monet – Lost in Translation, Suzanne Greub (ed)

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Monet’s paintings are overfamiliar, overexposed, and devalued. Can this book cast fresh light?

November 15, 2015 General, Painting

Book Review: Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art, Patrick Noon and Christopher Riopelle

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Paintings by Delacroix are rare outside Paris. This book is catalogue to an exhibition now in Minneapolis, in 2016 due for London.

October 25, 2015 General, Painting

Beyond the French Impressionists: 19 USA, Winslow Homer

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He never aspired to be an impressionist, but painted many works plein air, with loose brushwork, and conveying impressions.

June 21, 2015 Painting

Book Review: Georges Seurat The Art of Vision, Michelle Foa

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Seurat was interested in much more than the perception of colour, and in his reading of contemporary science (particularly that of von Helmholtz) and in his paintings, explored much of visual experience.

June 15, 2015 General, Painting

From pigment to painting: 4 Hue, I can sing a Rainbow

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Although lightness and chroma can usually be approached successfully using methodical approaches, long experience has shown that hue is much more hit or miss. Developing a good ‘eye’ for colours is generally much more important.

March 18, 2015 Painting

Favourite Paintings 10: Paul Signac, Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde (La Bonne-Mère), Marseille, 1905-6

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A luminous painting of the port of Marseille in dawn light, looking up towards the ‘Good Mother’ church, marks the height of both Neo-Impressionism and Fauvism.

March 2, 2015 Painting
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