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Géricault

Not Like That: Pigments bogus and destructive

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Asphalt has been claimed to be responsible for the slow destruction and loss of many paintings, from the ‘Raft of the Medusa’ on. The evidence is tenuous.

February 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Pierre-Paul Prud’hon 2: Nemesis

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His later years brought one of the few paintings of Nemesis, an influence on Géricault’s ‘Raft of the Medusa’, and a portrait of the infant King of Rome.

February 16, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 30 Frozen motion and blur

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Perception changed with photography, and we came to interpret blur, lines and other devices as indicating motion.

January 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Cossacks in paintings 2: Mazeppa

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The heavily embroidered story of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa was turned into a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and inspired paintings by Géricault, Delacroix, Vernet, and others.

November 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 7 One arm raised

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The meaning of one arm raised depends on the position of the fingers: is it an index finger pointing to heaven, or a sign of benediction?

October 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Shipwrecks in paintings 1

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Travel by sea was hazardous. Here are paintings of shipwrecks from Tintoretto to the early 19th century, as an introduction to The Tempest.

July 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A history of history painting after 1800: to 1869

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From David’s history paintings of the end of the eighteenth century, the genre went from strength to strength, with major works by Goya, Géricault, and even Manet.

March 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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

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