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A Blossom Festival in paintings 1

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Reduced to viewing the blossom online? Here are wonderful paintings of tree blossom from Millais, Sisley, van Gogh and others.

March 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

There’s no smoke without painting 2

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Smoke in paintings by Poussin, Millet, Homer, Sargent, Waterhouse, Rossetti, and others with more subtle meanings about wind, magic, and gambling.

November 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 2

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More exquisite painted fans from Carl Larsson, Paul Gauguin, Anders Zorn, and the Australian Impressionist Charles Conder.

September 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 13 Paper and cardboard

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Good for watercolour and pastels alone? Paper and cardboard have also been used extensively for oil sketches, and more.

June 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Women in the Life of Jules Joseph LeFebvre 2

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Although known for his paintings of nudes, many of his subjects were fully-clothed, and most were powerful women who overcame adversity.

February 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Ripples in Reality: The Landscape Paintings of Frits Thaulow, 2

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He returned to one theme repeatedly: reflections in the rippled and turbulent surface of a river.

March 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: The Cornish Riviera in the twentieth century

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At the end of the nineteenth century, Cornwall and its marvellous coast was within easy reach of London, […]

October 12, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Visiting the beach

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The birthplace of Impressionism, and its spread around the world, it also reflected the huge changes in society, leisure, and dress. Let’s soak up the sun.

August 9, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Gone with the Wind – people

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People and the props which they carry can readily show the effects of the wind. Some brilliant examples illustrate this well.

March 26, 2017 General, Painting

Deep and crisp and even: some seasonal snow on canvas

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Celebrate the Christmas holiday with a review of many wonderful paintings of snow scenes.

December 24, 2016 General, Life, Painting

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