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Painted Deserts 1

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Before the 19th century, most paintings of deserts were imaginary. Then artists started to paint them at first hand. Paintings up to 1864.

December 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A short history of shadows in paintings 1

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From the shadowed silhouette painted by the legendary Dibutades to paintings of families involved in shadow play.

November 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 15 Henry Herbert La Thangue

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When he returned from training at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1886, he painted en plein air in an Impressionist style.

November 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 14 Wynford Dewhurst

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With Claude Monet as his mentor, he painted in thoroughly Impressionist style. Also the author of the most influential contemporary account of Impressionism in English.

October 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 2

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Two young men cast adrift on the River Seine, a king having his hair cut, and one of the finest and most haunting paintings of Psyche.

October 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Merovingians: the bicentenary of Évariste Vital Luminais 1

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He started painting popular equestrian scenes and social realist works, but after the Franco-Prussian War turned increasingly to old French history.

October 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: Rebellion

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In 1814, following the restoration of the Spanish monarchy, Goya painted four works showing the uprising of 1808. One of these is now a major work of the European canon.

September 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting the surreal before Surrealism 2

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Examples from Gustave Moreau, Georges Clairin, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Paul Nash, Joseph Stella, and Nikolai Astrup.

September 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 2

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Three paintings within 5 years, usually claimed to be responses to the Dreyfus Affair. But one was much more about modern art and photography.

June 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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