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Landscape Composition: 14 Nocturnes

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Technically very challenging, most are painted in the studio, but some are quite unreal, and others suffer from the moon illusion.

November 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

River power: Paintings of watermills 2

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More wonderful landscapes from JC Dahl, Albert Bierstadt, Samuel Palmer, Vincent van Gogh to the remote Norwegian fjords of Nikolai Astrup.

May 10, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Tilting at Windmills – in paintings, 2

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Paintings by Bonington, Jongkind, Monet, Vincent van Gogh, and Piet Mondrian show the latter years of windmills in northern Europe.

March 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

I Saw Three Ships: sailing ships in paintings 1

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From 1643 (Claude Lorrain), through Claude-Joseph Vernet and Turner to JC Dahl two centuries later.

November 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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

Seeing History: Static views

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The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.

December 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Coast: The spectacle of Vesuvius, 2

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JMW Turner and John Martin painted apocalyptic visions, but others like JC Dahl and O Achenbach opted for the less spectacular.

November 16, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: By the light of the moon, 1 before 1850

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Although often the preserve of specialists who concentrated on nocturnes, coasts are ideal locations for moonlit views. Caspar David Friedrich, JC Dahl, and more.

November 11, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: To the end of the earth with Peder Balke

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His romantic views of the North Cape of Norway and the Northern Lights were for many their first glimpse of the uttermost north.

September 26, 2017 General, Life, Painting
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