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Rhythm in paintings: Depth and patterns

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Using repeated forms, usually regularly spaced, is a well-known technique for increasing depth, adding optical effects, and more.

November 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Maids a-milking: Milkmaids in painting 1

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Primary task to milk cows by hand, also make possible the eradication of smallpox. Paintings by Rubens, Potter, Vermeer, Gainsborough and others.

May 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Benjamin West and Modern History 3

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He took a break from ‘modern history’ painting in the 1780s, making religious works and even some landscapes, including some unknown gems.

February 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 1

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Compositional techniques usually involving foreground trees which increase the depth of a picture. Explained and illustrated.

June 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 5 Watercolour and gouache

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With a binder of gum arabic, watercolours came into use in the Renaissance, and have steadily increased in popularity.

April 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

And When Did You Last See William Frederick Yeames?

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He specialised in history paintings of the Tudor and Stuart period, and later painted problem pictures to puzzle the viewer. He died 100 years ago today.

May 3, 2018 General, Life, Painting

In the Angels’ Kitchen: Murillo’s 400th anniversary, 3

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In his later years, he painted some unusual religious works, including an episode from the life of St Thomas of Villaneuva, and the heavenly and earthly trinities.

December 27, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Wet in wet: a brief history of watercolour – 1, origins to 1800

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The first in a series of 4, starts with Dürer’s brilliant paintings, looks at Raphael, Hans Bol, and the beginnings of the ‘English School’.

September 2, 2017 General, Painting

Rubens in Retirement: The late landscapes

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Among his last paintings are six superb landscapes, painted for his pleasure. What a wonderful end to such an illustrious career.

July 23, 2017 General, Painting

Painting the Impossible: Gone with the Wind – land and sea

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Is it really futile and impossible to try to paint the wind? Here’s a selection of evidence, drawn from landscapes and marines.

March 25, 2017 General, Painting

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