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Ford Madox Brown constrained by Pre-Raphaelite ideals

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His four best paintings viewed in their historical context, and consideration of the constraints that he painted under. What if?

January 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Far from home: Paintings of Frances Hodgkins 1

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Considered one of the leading British painters of the first half of the 20th century, she was an incessant traveller, and came from New Zealand.

January 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: JMW Turner’s landscapes

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The evolution of a painting of Dieppe Harbour through pencil sketches and to watercolour rough, and some problems of his oil techniques.

September 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Landscape oil sketches from Valenciennes to Pissarro

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Examples of the work of Thomas Jones, Constable, Corot, Blechen, Boudin, Jongkind, Pissarro, Cézanne, Sargent, Monet, and more.

February 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Detail, the painterly, and the abstract: 1 A matter of scale

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Were Turner’s and Cézanne’s late paintings becoming more abstract? What distinguishes representational painting from abstract?

January 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Fire, Fire 2: London and Frederiksborg Castle are burning

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From Constable and Turner’s views of London’s parliament ablaze, to Edvard Munch’s painting of a local manor house in flames.

April 29, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Coast: To the lighthouse

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Lighthouses in the paintings of JMW Turner, Constable, Monet, Signac, Peder Balke, and others, from England to Turkey.

September 21, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Scottish seas by William McTaggart

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He kept returning to the coast, and continued to paint its seasons and moods, its fury and its peace.

September 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: Storms, 1 Magnasco to Aivazovsky

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Includes brilliant paintings of coastal storms by Vernet, Constable, JWM Turner, and Courbet.

August 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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