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Characters in Painted Stories: 0 Summary and contents

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Does analysis of literary plots offer anything to the understanding of visual narrative in painting? A journey through some of the best painted stories in quest of the answer.

January 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 13 Telling a new story

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Can a single painting tell the viewer a story which they don’t already know? Examples from Holman Hunt, Degas, Orchardson, Collier and Chierici.

January 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend in Wales: paintings 2

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Alfred Hunt’s dazzling November Rainbow, Eric Ravilious walking alone in the rain, and the last and greatest paintings of Alfred Sisley.

December 12, 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

Autumn Views 1

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Paintings conveying the atmosphere of autumn, from Joos de Momper in the early 17th century, to Hawkins in about 1890,

October 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Thomas Seddon: bicentenary of a Pre-Raphaelite landscape painter

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In just a few years of painting, he made two of the major Pre-Raphaelite landscapes, but died of dysentery in Cairo at the age of only 35.

August 28, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Channel Coasts: 1 England

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A journey in paintings from Newlyn Harbour in Cornwall, past the Isle of Wight, to end at Dover – the English Channel coast.

August 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

River in Flight: paintings of waterfalls 2

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From Church’s view of Niagara, Bierstadt in the Sierra Nevada, to two early landscape views of Ferdinand Hodler.

July 25, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 1

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Once Britain’s foremost natural history artist, when he realised his eyesight was failing he turned to painting landscapes on his travels.

May 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Gloves in paintings: 1 Meaning

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Like eyes and the rest of the face, hands are most usually seen uncovered in figurative paintings. These paintings show gloved hands which have special purposes and meaning.

March 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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