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Telling stories in paintings and illustrations 2

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Paintings and illustrations by Gustave Doré and Walter Crane, two of the 19th century’s major illustrators, and both accomplished painters.

September 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Telling stories in paintings and illustrations 1

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Telling a story in a standalone painting, and telling one in illustrations, are very different. Examples by Masaccio, Poussin, Crane, Rackham, and Hogarth.

September 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’ – its illustrators

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Illustrated editions of the epic became most popular towards the end of the 19th century, when Walter Crane created the finest.

August 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Collins and Copping: Words, paintings, and Charles Dickens

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Two painters: one married Charles Dickens’ daughter and stopped painting, the other became a prolific illustrator, including books by Dickens’ grand-daughter. The Victorian Web at work.

December 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Walter Crane, between illustration and painting

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Best known as the most influential children’s book illustrator, he painted several narrative paintings too.

March 24, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Moving panoramas for the masses

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Long forgotten now, panoramas were hugely popular in the 1800s, and some were strongly narrative.

February 10, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

Landscape Visions: 6 figures, staffage, and Advent Calendars

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Some paintings have figures and action which goes beyond staffage, and provides narrative, meaning, or puzzles.

August 3, 2015 Painting

Book Review: Lost in Translation, Ella Frances Sanders

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Who could resist the urge to pick this exquisite little book up and browse through its painted pages?

June 11, 2015 General, Language, Life, Painting
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