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Wedding Paintings 3: Others

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Some personal, even intimate wedding paintings, from Rubens, Hans Gude, William Frith, and two Naturalists. And they all lived happily ever after.

April 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Desert, skulls and steelworks: Paintings of Eugen Bracht 2

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After Symbolism, he turned to Impressionism, with a wide range of motifs from mountain peaks to smoky steelworks.

January 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Desert, skulls and steelworks: Paintings of Eugen Bracht 1

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A pupil of Hans Gude, he stopped painting for over 10 years. When he resumed, he painted unusual landscapes, peaking in a Symbolist masterpiece of the apocalypse.

January 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 13 Paper and cardboard

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Good for watercolour and pastels alone? Paper and cardboard have also been used extensively for oil sketches, and more.

June 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

A Hard Reality: the paintings of Christian Krohg, 1 – beginnings

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A social realist whose themes spanned controversial topics such as poverty and prostitution, he was a major influence of Edvard Munch, and central to Nordic and northern European art.

January 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Scottish Highlands and Islands on canvas: 2, visiting artists

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Visits to Scotland became popular among artists in the nineteenth century. Here are wonderful paintings by AW Hunt, Gustave Doré, Rosa Bonheur, Hans Gude, and others.

September 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Coast: On a clear day – from the cliff, Friedrich to Gude

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There’s two ways to paint a coastal cliff: from the beach, or on the top. Surprisingly few landscape painters have opted for the latter. Here are some examples.

August 24, 2017 General, Life, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 13 Conclusions and contents

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Are they part of a narrative, or staffage? Do they provide scale, or enhance the effect? Are the figures part of the landscape, or even the landscape itself?

August 3, 2017 General, Painting

Figures in a Landscape: 11 A helping brush

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When a landscape artist finds it hard to paint figures well, there is one good solution: work with a figurative painter. The results can be spectacular.

July 19, 2017 General, Painting

Edvard Munch: A life in paintings 1884-1892

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First article outlining Munch’s life and work. His early works shocked critics in Norway, and in Berlin brought an exhibition to a premature end.

April 17, 2017 General, Painting

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