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Laundry: paintings of washing clothes

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Washing and drying clothes have been important activities in many landmark paintings. Selection from Isabey, Boudin, Gauguin, Renoir and others.

March 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ondine, her curse and breathing

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Invented by Paracelsus and popularised in a novella, poems and plays, Ondine became popular in painting, then in 1962 in medicine.

December 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings on fans

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As tried by Pissarro, Degas, Carl Larsson, Gauguin, Anders Zorn, Charles Conder, and Louis Welden Hawkins.

August 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A cavalcade of colour: 2 green to white

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Completes this tour of the painter’s palette, with well-known greens, then the essential blacks and whites. Examples from Michelangelo to Vincent van Gogh.

March 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Leaves 1

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Come leaf-peeping with painters from Samuel Palmer in the Weald of Kent, to Julian Alden Weir’s autumn rain.

October 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is that a mandolin or a lute in that painting?

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What’s the difference between a lute and a mandolin? Was Napoleon responsible for the early loss of popularity of mandolins?

July 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Faithful Friends: Cats in paintings

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Independent and aloof, cats train their humans and think that they’re still large and ferocious. Paintings from Carpaccio to Bonnard.

February 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Fan Club: painted fans in European art 2

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More exquisite painted fans from Carl Larsson, Paul Gauguin, Anders Zorn, and the Australian Impressionist Charles Conder.

September 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Nabis: A brief account

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Short summary of their history, art, and their role in the evolution of painting in the twentieth century, with copious links to articles here.

July 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Nabis: 2 Infancy

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Flattened perspective, muted colours, and decorative patterning: some of the characteristics of the early Nabi years.

June 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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