From trompe l’oeil for sculpture to children making rabbits on the wall, shadows have long been popular, and most recently have featured in Surrealist paintings too.
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When you see the same face in a mirror that you presume that figure can also see, despite that being optically impossible. An exploration.
Originally the toilet, this is where ladies prepared themselves for the day. Paintings from Hogarth. Degas, Vallotton, Pierre Bonnard and others.
In the early 20th century, some bathers opted for trunks, a few still bathed naked in seclusion, and modern clothes broke out on occasion.
Explaining shade, attached and cast shadows seen in paintings. While the first two have been generally painted faithfully, cast shadows are more complicated.
Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.
From Charles Conder’s Holiday at Mentone, Australia, to Pierre Bonnard on the beach at Arcachon in south-west France, in 1922.
Paintings from a century ago by Fortescue-Brickdale, Franz von Stuck, George Bellows, and John Godward, who committed suicide because of Picasso’s success.
Why do Canaletto’s gondolas not have shadows? Where did Cézanne get his shadows wrong, and why, and what colour are shadows really?
For 15 years, his delicate nudes seen in dappled light were popular throughout Europe. They shocked the folk back in the US, though.
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