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Reading visual art: 14 Bring on the clowns

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Clown figures including Harlequin, Pulcinella and Pierrot are derived from the commedia dell’arte, a favourite of Watteau and other painters.

November 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 8 Both arms raised

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Are the two arms fending others off, raised in shock, surrender, or falling to earth? From light comedy to accounts of executions and war crimes.

October 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Children at Play 1

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Never paint children or animals, says the rule. This tribute to artists who ignored the rule shows work by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Goya, and others to Mary Cassatt.

September 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 13: A short history of clothes and fabrics in paintings

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An overview starting with the sculptural folds of the late 13th century, peaking with Raphael and Rembrandt, and dissolving with Renoir and Sargent in the early 20th century.

July 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 12: Costumbrism to Frou-frou

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Two movements concerned with depiction of clothing and fabrics: Costumbrism in Spain, with local customs, and wild fashion in French frou-frou.

July 6, 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

Bewitched: Paintings of witches 1

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Interest in paintings of witchcraft grew in the Age of Enlightenment, with a series painted by Goya for the Duchess of Osuna.

June 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 9: Chroma, class and the modern

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The experience of colour in our buildings, indoor environments, clothing and objects we look at has changed. What used to be a privilege of class is now all but universal.

June 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight: Introduction to fabrics in paintings

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In many paintings, depiction of fabrics, textiles and other clothing materials is more challenging and important than that of flesh.

April 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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