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Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 12: Costumbrism to Frou-frou

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Two movements concerned with depiction of clothing and fabrics: Costumbrism in Spain, with local customs, and wild fashion in French frou-frou.

July 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

To the beach! 1

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From West and Frith’s early paintings of the beach at Ramsgate, through their increasing popularity in the 19th century, to Boudin, Monet and Renoir.

August 14, 2021 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

Wedding Paintings 3: Others

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Some personal, even intimate wedding paintings, from Rubens, Hans Gude, William Frith, and two Naturalists. And they all lived happily ever after.

April 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Landscapes of Martín Rico: 2 1873-1908

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In 1873, he went to Italy, fell in love with Venice, and returned there to paint every year. His paintings of Venice secured his reputation.

December 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Landscapes of Martín Rico: 1 1852-1872

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Leading Spanish landscape painter of the late 19th century, he went to France to train in the 1860s, where he painted with Calame and Pissarro.

December 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Alhambra: 2 Landscapes 1767-1883

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Increasingly popular during the 19th century, the Alhambra was painted by von Lenbach, Regnault, Childe Hassam, Australian Tom Roberts, and others.

December 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Alhambra: 1 History

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Time for a long weekend in the warmth of Granada, Spain. Here’s some history of the palaces of the Alhambra in paintings by Regnault and others.

December 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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