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Reading visual art: 29 Motion and billows

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Motion can be implied against the rules we learn about how the world works. It can also be shown in billowing garments.

January 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1922: Landscapes and Still Life

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Paul Signac, Paul Nash, Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth and others, even a painting by Paul Klee, for an eclectic collection.

December 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1922: Narrative

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A glimpse inside Botticelli’s studio, an artist who foresaw his own death, an unusual Birth of Venus, the Ship Fools, and more painted stories from 1922.

December 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the vegetable garden 1

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Caillebotte’s gardening almost stopped him from painting, and Vincent van Gogh shows vegetable gardens on the hill of Montmartre.

November 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 10 Gaze, looking away

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Ignored bodies, a complex chain from the head of John the Baptist, and Velazquez’s royal portrait which omits the King and Queen,

November 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 2

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More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.

October 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 9: Othello

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A story of jealousy, adultery, treachery and race, which resulted in an early professional actress in a lead, and the first major lead for a black actor.

August 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted cupids for Valentine’s Day

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How we got from one of the most senior gods, and a winged young man, to a chubby infant armed with a bow and arrow, let alone an unknown former saint.

February 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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