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A Weekend in Algeria: People

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The Ouled Naïl come from the south of Algeria, in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. Paintings by those who lived in Algeria and got to know them.

March 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 21 Footwear

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Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical.

December 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Fools and jesters in paintings

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A selection of paintings of Yoric (Hamlet), Touchstone, and Shakespeare’s other fools, and a few from others including the great Polish Stańczyk.

November 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight: 0 Contents

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Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.

July 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 13: A short history of clothes and fabrics in paintings

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An overview starting with the sculptural folds of the late 13th century, peaking with Raphael and Rembrandt, and dissolving with Renoir and Sargent in the early 20th century.

July 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 12: Costumbrism to Frou-frou

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Two movements concerned with depiction of clothing and fabrics: Costumbrism in Spain, with local customs, and wild fashion in French frou-frou.

July 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the surreal before Surrealism 2

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Examples from Gustave Moreau, Georges Clairin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paul Nash, Joseph Stella, and Nikolai Astrup.

September 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 3 Power

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Bishop’s crosier, monarch’s sceptre, field-marshal’s baton, or just another fashion accessory?

April 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Where did you get that hat? 2 Paintings of hat society

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Where did milliners come from? How does it take 5 hours to choose a hat? What did Ouled Naïl women wear on their head? More wonderful paintings of hats and their owners.

March 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings in a Country Churchyard 2

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Churchyards and graveyards in the darker side of French history, in Egypt, and in deep countryside by the fjords of Norway.

January 31, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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