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Painting the spirits of water: Ondines and their curse

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Invented by Paracelsus, to have an afterlife they must marry a human. But that man must remain faithful to them, or they will die from Ondine’s Curse.

January 25, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Painted stories of the Decameron: Brother Philippe’s Geese

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The 101st story, buried in the start of the fourth day, about a father who turns hermit with his young son after his wife’s early death, and a derived fable told by La Fontaine.

January 12, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Fans from Europe

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From 1885 fans were a popular support for several artists, including Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, and Paul Gauguin painted many of them.

January 7, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: No binder at all

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In peinture à l’essence, the drying oil binder is removed from oil paint, and the remaining pigment is diluted with turpentine. This creates a fragile paint layer that is ephemeral.

September 9, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A green weekend: Emerald

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A highly toxic arsenic salt, it succeeded Scheele’s green and was widely used until the 20th century, and finally discontinued in the 1960s.

August 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 184 Just sewing

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Learning how to sew, gossiping over sewing, or sitting apart, professional seamstresses, Gauguin’s odd nude, and Vallotton’s sewing maid.

January 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Laundresses in a landscape 2

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Later landscapes from 1880, by Boudin, Vincent van Gogh, Gauguin, Renoir, and others, prior to their decline in the early 20th century.

September 15, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A to Z of Landscapes: Greens

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Essential pigments for the landscape artist: green earths, malachite, verdigris, copper resinate, Prussian green, viridian, and emerald green.

March 28, 2024 General, Life, Painting

The Breaking Wave in Paintings 2

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After Courbet, the Great Wave influenced Bierstadt, Gauguin, Walter Crane, Henry Moret, Georges Lacombe, and became truly iconic.

February 25, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings from Pont-Aven: 1860 to Gauguin

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This artist’s colony developed in the 1860s, and soon became popular with Americans studying in Paris. It attained fame with Paul Gauguin, who first visited in 1886.

January 6, 2024 General, Life, Painting

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