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Pierre Bonnard: On Reflection

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Between 1905 and 1916, he often painted his models in front of a mirror, and played games with their reflections.

September 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Edgar Degas: Portraits of the Modern Woman

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Most of Degas’ painting are of and about women. Using some of his finest works, this explores how he portrayed ‘the modern woman’, from ironing to the brothel.

September 22, 2017 General, Life, Painting

A Woman’s Work 2: Portrait of a Laundress

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The majority of portraits and genre paintings of women washing clothes are thoroughly demur, without the slightest innuendo.

August 20, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 12 Renaissance realism

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Painters of the early northern Renaissance founded modern Western landscape painting, and developed the first examples of staffage.

July 26, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 11 A helping brush

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When a landscape artist finds it hard to paint figures well, there is one good solution: work with a figurative painter. The results can be spectacular.

July 19, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 10 Canaletto, Master of Staffage

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One of the first dedicated landscape specialists who met the rising demand for ‘views’, his figures reveal his true interest in his motifs.

July 12, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 9 Pieter Brueghel the Elder

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Like Poussin, most of his works are strongly narrative in intent. Did he paint any pure landscapes, or are all his figures actors in his stories?

July 6, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 8 Nicolas Poussin

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Would such a great narrative painter really paint landscapes which lack a story?

June 29, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 7 Among skyscrapers

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How Colin Campbell Cooper and George Bellows used figures in their paintings of New York City in the early twentieth century.

June 22, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 6 Constable’s gestures

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His sketches and studies are wonderfully painterly, but was he painting what he saw, or what he envisaged?

June 15, 2017 General, Painting

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