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Painted Stories in Britain 17: The end of history

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Two last Pre-Raphaelite artists, Evelyn De Morgan and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, brought narrative painting to a close in the twentieth century.

December 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 16: Open narrative and problem pictures

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In the latter half of the 19th century, a new narrative form developed, primarily among British painters: the open narrative, or problem picture.

December 15, 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

Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 13: As You Like It

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Full of memorable lines such as “All the world’s a stage” and songs like “It was a lover and his lass”, a favourite comedy and well painted.

August 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 8: The scarlet woman

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Well known from language, the scarlet woman should be easy to read in paintings. But all that is scarlet isn’t who you’d expect.

June 7, 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

Paintings of 1921: 1 People

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Fine paintings from 1921, by John Collier, Christian Krohg, Félix Vallotton, Maurice Denis and others.

December 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 9 Rebirth in folk tales

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Paintings of the Sleeping Beauty and the Frog Prince only became popular late in the nineteenth century. Do they conform to the standard plot type?

December 8, 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

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