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Reading visual art: 25 Dreams classical

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From the Renaissance, by convention dreams were shown as a dream view set within a framing real view. Examples by Raphael, Tintoretto and others.

January 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 9 Gaze, looking towards

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Maternal love, Oedipus and the Sphinx, and a naked courtesan unveiled before a court of men, all demonstrate how important is gaze.

November 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Odd Man Out: pastels of Edgar Degas

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Pastel paintings were central to his art, from empty beach landscapes of 1869, through the ballet, to women bathing and dressing in the 1880s, and fantasy landscapes of 1892.

June 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 7: Uniformity and dissolution

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David’s Neoclassicism brought uniformity and lack of surface texture. Romanticism followed, with garments dissolving into brushstrokes.

June 1, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 11 The moment of change

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Do Booker’s Seven Basic Plots reduce to a series of events leading to a change in fortune (reversal, peripeteia), and establishing the outcome?

December 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 10 Oedipus

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One of the famous painted narratives, Oedipus and the Sphinx proves an exception to all rules, but is glossed over in discussion of the literary narrative.

December 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Good knights in paintings 1

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Paintings of knights in armour from Raphael in c 1502, through Ingres’ rescue of Angelica, to Arthurian legends and the Pre-Raphaelite movement.

November 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Crème de la Crème: Winners of the Prix de Rome for painting 1

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Founded around 1666, the Prix de Rome was an annual contest for narrative painting. First prize was study at the French Academy in Rome.

July 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 1

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Modigliani’s tragically early death, the American Benjamin West, who painted almost entirely in England, Raphael, Ingres, and John Singer Sargent. What a year!

December 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Here be Monsters in paintings

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Sphinxes by Ingres and Moreau, Watts’ Minotaur, Blake’s Cerberus, Hieronymus Bosch, and more monsters.

August 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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