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Degas

Art and Science: 14 Back to alchemy

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Joshua Reynolds, who aspired to paint like Rembrandt; JMW Turner who explored colour contrasts and texture; Edgar Degas, who dried his oils before painting.

March 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 13 Telling a new story

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Can a single painting tell the viewer a story which they don’t already know? Examples from Holman Hunt, Degas, Orchardson, Collier and Chierici.

January 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Gustave Caillebotte’s Parquet Planers

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How on earth could three workmen preparing the wooden floor of an artist’s studio be vulgar? And how could that change a realist into an Impressionist?

July 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Reject: Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Blue Armchair

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Both her entries to the Salon in 1877 had been rejected. Then she submitted this masterpiece to the jury for the American pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in 1878.

July 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

So to bed: paintings of beds 2

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The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.

May 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Where did you get that hat? 2 Paintings of hat society

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Where did milliners come from? How does it take 5 hours to choose a hat? What did Ouled Naïl women wear on their head? More wonderful paintings of hats and their owners.

March 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Art of Anders Zorn 3: Switching to oils

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During a visit to St Ives in Cornwall, he starts painting in oils, then moves to Paris where commercial and artistic success await.

July 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In the limelight, paintings of the theatre 2: audience

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Paintings of people watching plays, by Daumier, Degas, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and others.

July 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In the limelight, paintings of the theatre 1: players

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Paintings of scenes from plays by Degas, Seurat, Georges Clairin, and others.

July 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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