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Paintings of Oslo: Environs

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Frognerkilen with Oscarshall, a summer night on Fleskum Farm, Kalvøya in the sun, a summer house in Asker, and Munch’s Starry Night.

June 22, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Oslo: City

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The Karl Johan in snow and starvation, in the rain, an anxious moment, and in the summer. Industrial buildings on the Akerselven River, skis in Majorstuen, and more views of the city.

June 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Urban Revolutionaries: 8 The Oldest Profession

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Paintings from cities like London, Paris and Oslo, by Ford Madox Brown, Jean-Louis Forain, Félicien Rops, Christian Krohg, and others.

March 21, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Urban Revolutionaries: 6 Demon drink

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The evils of absinthe in paintings by Degas, Raffaëlli, Jean Béraud, and other booze like Bocks by Manet and Friant, with artists also drinking heavily.

February 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1922: Figurative and portraits

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Paintings by Vuillard, Pierre Bonnard, Dagnan-Bouveret, LA Ring, and others all completed a century ago.

December 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1922: Narrative

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A glimpse inside Botticelli’s studio, an artist who foresaw his own death, an unusual Birth of Venus, the Ship Fools, and more painted stories from 1922.

December 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 3: Homeless

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Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.

June 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The story of painted narrative 2

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Examples of a ‘dead’ narrative technique used by JMW Turner, Corot, Ford Madox Brown, Edvard Munch, Lovis Corinth and others.

February 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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