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Fearnley

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Winter is Coming: Paintings of Fog

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Who’d want to paint much of their canvas dull, pale grey? If these paintings are anything to go by, many of the Impressionists

November 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 3

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The figure appears in later landscapes, including one by Martín Rico, and a pastel by Millet, before being radically revised by Ferdinand Hodler.

August 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Wanderer in paintings 2

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The wanderer with his back to the viewer takes on new life with Thomas Fearnley. Is he the artist’s alter ego?

August 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Glaciers: vanishing motifs

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Views of one glacier over 250 years show how it has changed. Others in Greenland and Iceland are rapidly vanishing too.

March 10, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting and the Unconscious: Carl Gustav Carus 1

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What is a professor of obstetrics doing learning to paint with Caspar David Friedrich? Also an important precursor to Darwin, and a friend of Goethe – and wonderful paintings as well.

December 1, 2018 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

Figures in a Landscape: 13 Conclusions and contents

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Are they part of a narrative, or staffage? Do they provide scale, or enhance the effect? Are the figures part of the landscape, or even the landscape itself?

August 3, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 3 Seeing the Andes

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Two people looking at a cross in the middle of a vast canvas filled with lush plains, rising hills, and distant snow-capped peaks. How should we read them?

May 31, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 1 Little people in grand views

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Who is the wanderer and painter in Thomas Fearnley’s landscapes? Does he have any deeper purpose, or was he just a graphical signature?

May 26, 2017 General, Life, Painting

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