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Géricault

The best of 2019’s paintings and articles 1

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An overview of some of the articles on painting published here during the last year. From Goethe’s Faust to Leonardo da Vinci.

December 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Why Géricault’s shipwreck changed the course of art 2

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The painting’s reception, and how it changed 19th century painting, with Courbet, Lhermitte, Naturalists, and Tom Lea III.

December 6, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Why Géricault’s shipwreck changed the course of art 1

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Considers modern history painting before this by West and David, the underlying story of the tragedy, and how Géricault came to paint what he did.

December 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 16 Varnish

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Until 1880, varnishing oil paintings was standard practice, but three completely different types of varnish were used. A journey through names like sandarac and colophony.

July 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

The Great Wave 1, Vernet to Hokusai

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Painters paid little attention to the form of near-breaking regular waves until the mid-1700s. Japanese art later changed Western painting, with a single print by Hokusai.

June 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Next Year in Paintings: da Vinci, Courbet, Renoir, and more

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Plans to celebrate anniversaries of major painters, series on narrative paintings, and more, for the coming year.

January 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 2 Origins

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From their genre roots in the Dutch Golden Age, through Géricault and Courbet, to the social realism of Millet, Manet, and most of all Lhermitte.

December 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

From Indiscretion to Burlesque: Mazeppa in paint

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An odd story about the leader of the Ukrainian Cossacks and his youthful indiscretion becomes a poem by Byron, and finally burlesque titillation.

October 7, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Painter as History: Ary Scheffer 1

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Contemporary of Géricault and Delacroix, he had an interest in mediaeval history, and was intimately involved in politics, including the accession of King Louis-Philippe to the throne in 1830, and the Greek War of Independence.

September 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 2

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More paintings of surprise, by Gericault, Gérôme, Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Morelli, and others.

June 3, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

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