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Reading visual art: 8 Both arms raised

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Are the two arms fending others off, raised in shock, surrender, or falling to earth? From light comedy to accounts of executions and war crimes.

October 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 13 Telling a new story

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Can a single painting tell the viewer a story which they don’t already know? Examples from Holman Hunt, Degas, Orchardson, Collier and Chierici.

January 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Comical Canvases: Humour in paintings 2

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Humorous paintings of animals and children, and well-known stories such as Salome, and Don Quixote, leading to an inspiration for Surrealists.

March 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Only When I Laugh: laughter in paintings 2

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Several wonderful paintings by Lovis Corinth, a couple by Franz von Stuck and Robert Henri – let laughter commence.

June 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Geese 1: Farmyards and wetlands

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4500 years of paintings of geese, from Rubens’ flock seen at harvest time, to Gauguin’s complement to his landlady. And some superb paintings of wild geese on the wing.

May 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 3

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A painter who specialised in depicting surprise, and works by John Collier, Lovis Corinth, and Stuart Pearson Wright complete this account.

June 4, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting
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