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Gauguin

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

The Nabis: 1 Beginnings

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Paul Gauguin inspired and launched the Nabis during the late 1880s at Pont-Aven. They first exhibited in 1889, and published their manifesto in 1890, by which time he had moved onto another project.

June 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Great Wave 2, Courbet to Gauguin

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After European artists saw Hokusai’s print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, their own depictions became widespread, peaking in 1896.

June 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Dutch Nabi: Meijer de Haan

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Friend, pupil and colleague of Paul Gauguin, he painted avidly in Brittany around 1890, then suddenly left and all but vanished, as have his paintings.

May 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Like an obelisk: Nabi paintings of Jan Verkade

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Influence by Gauguin and Sérusier, he painted intensively in Brittany as a Nabi. By 1894, he had entered a monastery, where he worked in the Beuron Art School.

May 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Geese 1: Farmyards and wetlands

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4500 years of paintings of geese, from Rubens’ flock seen at harvest time, to Gauguin’s complement to his landlady. And some superb paintings of wild geese on the wing.

May 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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