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Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Silent Hunters of the Night: paintings of owls 1

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Symbols of the night, and through association with Athena/Minerva, for wisdom and learning. Owls in paintings to William Blake.

January 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

In memoriam Eugen Bracht 1

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Landscapes which are quietly unusual, and one of the Symbolist masterworks of the 19th century, after which he turned Impressionist.

November 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Staffs in paintings: 1 Myth, Age, Travellers

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From mythology, Mercury’s caduceus and the Aesculapian Staff, walking sticks as a device indicating age, and those carried by travellers.

April 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings in a Country Churchyard 1

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Churchyards and graveyards in the art of William Hogarth, Caspar David Friedrich, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Louis Welden Hawkins, and others.

January 30, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Aerial Perspective in paintings: 2 Development and rejection

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Its peak with Bonington, Friedrich, Corot and others. Decline in Impressionism to deliberate omission in ‘primitives’ such as Cézanne and Astrup.

November 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Distant snowline: the coming of autumn in the mountains 1

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The first brush with autumn occurs when the hill and mountain tops change to white, as if dusted by icing sugar – the first thrill for children and skiers.

October 10, 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

The Wanderer in paintings 1

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Wanderers, wayfarers and pilgrims have walked across continents in search of wisdom, spiritual enlightenment, or a bite to eat and sheltered sleep.

August 7, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying: an introduction to a new series

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From the early landscapes of Rubens and Dutch masters to the surrealist skyscapes of Paul Nash, introducing a history of painting the sky.

July 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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