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Colour Notes 12: Monochrome paintings

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Grisaille – grey underpainting used to set the tone for a finished work – is like underwear, waiting for richly coloured clothes to go on top. Not in these paintings, though.

July 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

King of Pastels: Paintings of Maurice Quentin de La Tour

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Dubbed the King of Pastels for his court portraits, he went on to paint Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour, among many others.

June 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 3: Colour temperature and constancy

“A human observer is able to recognise the colour of objects irrespective of the light used to illuminate the objects.” “Colour constancy does not exist in humans.” Which is right?

May 3, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Light-dark 1: Chiaroscuro in paintings to 1700

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Should chiaroscuro paintings show much in the way of colour, given that in the dark only the rods in our retinas function, giving us monochrome vision?

April 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Patrons and painters: Titian and the bluestocking poet

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Titian seems to have understood exactly what Vittoria Colonna wanted, and in doing so changed art.

March 31, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 7 Pastels

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Developed in the mid 1600s, pastels are often considered to be the ‘purest’ form of painting, in which pure pigment is applied to the ground.

April 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Out of darkness, light: The development of chiaroscuro 1

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A whirlwind trip through the history of compositional chiaroscuro, from the Renaissance, through Caravaggio and Artemisia Gentileschi, to Rembrandt.

December 15, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Faites vos jeux: gambling on canvas 1, to 1850

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Tracing the social history of gambling in paintings by Bosch, Caravaggio, de La Tour, Salvator Rosa, Murillo, Hogarth, and others.

May 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Seeing History: The long dark night

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The world looks very different now, compared with the past. This explores differences in lighting, from candlepower to the excesses seen in modern cities, and their effects on painting.

November 22, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Painting pure colour: a short history of pastels 1

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The early history of pastel, from Robert Nanteuil, through the brilliant portraits of Rosalba Carriera, to Maurice Quentin de La Tour, and the hyperrealism of Liotard.

August 26, 2017 General, Painting, Technology

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