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Reading visual art: 11 Judgement by body language

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The popular story of the Judgement of Solomon is a great challenge for visual art. Here are some of the better attempts at solution, from Raphael to Blake.

November 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 8: The scarlet woman

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Well known from language, the scarlet woman should be easy to read in paintings. But all that is scarlet isn’t who you’d expect.

June 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 6: One man in ten

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In some populations, as many as one in ten men has significant colour vision deficiency. What effect does that have on how they perceive paintings?

May 24, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting

Sheer Delight 2: Texture in oils

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From the fur-trimmed cloaks of Jan van Eyck, to the soft folds of Lisa Gherardini’s dress: clothing and fabrics painted in oils.

April 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes: Introduction, what we see

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What do paintings look like to someone with deuteranopia? Why do great paintings ‘draw’ the eye? Do we see the colours the artist intended? And how many words for blue are in Ukrainian?

April 14, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Painting in Italy around 1500 2: Change

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Paintings by rising stars including Michelangelo, Giorgione and Raphael. The state of paintings of secular stories from classical and literary sources.

April 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Adoration of the Shepherds

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The shepherds become more real and tatty from the Renaissance and Giorgione to Murillo and Bastien-Lepage.

December 26, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 17 A short history

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From Giorgione, Dürer and Altdorfer to Turner, Pissarro, Monet and Renoir: landmarks in the composition of landscape paintings.

December 22, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 2 Beginnings

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Although it was Leon Battista Alberti, in the southern Renaissance, who first developed the subject of composition in […]

September 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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