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El Greco

Colour Notes 2: Limited palettes

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A grisaille turned into a trompe l’oeil, symphonies in white, making the transition to oil paints, an exercise for pupils, and vibrant primary colours.

April 26, 2022 General, Life, 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

A cavalcade of colour: 2 green to white

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Completes this tour of the painter’s palette, with well-known greens, then the essential blacks and whites. Examples from Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh.

March 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Where? Maps and charts in paintings 1

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From Botticelli’s map of Dante’s ‘Inferno’ to Vermeer’s fine-detailed depictions of decorative wall hangings.

February 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in Spain at the time of Velázquez 1

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Some works by artists of the Spanish Golden Age, including El Greco, Jusepe de Ribera, Zurbarán, and a guest appearance from Rubens and polychrome wood carving.

January 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Annunciation, old and new

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From Jan van Eyck’s trompe l’oeil, through Tanner’s fiery cross, to the modern young Polish woman of Jacek Malczewski.

December 24, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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

Pigment: Blackest Black

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It’s not a colour at all, say some, while the Impressionists wanted to banish it from the palette. But throughout the history of painting, the blackest black has remained vital.

April 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Annunciation, old and more innovative

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In the hands, and brushes, of great artists, a religious set-piece becomes a succession of marvellous and highly innovative paintings.

December 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Visible brushstrokes: 6. Titian, Bassano, Veronese, El Greco

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We should add these Masters to the growing list of those with ‘painterly’ style, and consider whether Impressionism was a development of Venetian ‘colorito’ painting?

December 27, 2015 General, Painting

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