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Johannessen

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

Painting in the Rain 2: 1890-2006

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It was Vincent van Gogh who first showed rain streaks, in a painting made just a few days before his death. They’ve since become a standard visual device.

January 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1918: Looking back

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A selection of favourite paintings from 1918 by artists who worked in more traditional styles, from Japan to Texas, and Norway.

November 13, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Two Scenes in One Painting: multiplex narrative from 1600-1947, and in Asia

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Even Poussin used this narrative form. Here are other example right up to 1947, including paintings by Corot, Munch, Corinth, and others.

August 27, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Aksel Johannessen’s street women and drunkards, 2

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By the end of the war, he suffered worsening bouts of heavy drinking. He continued to paint, including telling his life story, both past and future.

May 31, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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