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Medium and Message: Sticks and crayons

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Modern and mixed media such as wax crayons, pencils, oil pastels, oil sticks and oil bars have become increasingly popular, although many age poorly and most have to be kept under glass.

October 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 13 Treachery

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Fraudsters, the incestuous Myrrha, mother of Adonis, a counterfeiter, Potiphar’s wife, then the treacherous who betrayed their kin.

October 20, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1884-1943

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Lawrence and his second wife Laura were successful painters, and taught their older daughter Anna to paint. He was knighted, and after his death was interred with great honour in St Paul’s Cathedral.

October 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

A painterly family: the Alma-Tademas 1836-81

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1869 was a disastrous year for Lawrence: his wife died suddenly, leaving him to care for their daughters, and he also had a medical problem that defied diagnosis. He went to London and fell in love at first sight.

October 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 231 Tiger

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Drawing the chariot of Bacchus/Dionysus, fighting with Christian martyrs, in a Paris zoo, or torrential rain in a tropical storm, or being hunted to be turned into a skin.

October 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

The Dutch Golden Age: Ordinary people

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Washerwoman below stairs, a kitchen maid, haggling in the market, selling fish door-to-door, pouring milk, farming families, and drinking.

October 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Medium and Message: Surface texture

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Tiny jewels fashioned from blobs of white paint, Rembrandt’s textured paint layers. Turner’s scratchings, and van Gogh’s textured Wheat Field with Cypresses, seen in fine detail.

October 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Dante’s Inferno: 12 Fraud and inciting division

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First a centaur killed by Hercules, then souls being tormented by reptiles, those with fraudulent lives burning in hell, and dismembered parts of those who inflamed dissent.

October 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Impressionism

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In 1865, Bazille, Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Cézanne started painting outdoors in front of the motif in the forest, and so Impressionism began.

October 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Barbizon

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After some early visits, young landscape painters started to visit the forest in 1829, and became the Barbizon School.

October 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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