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Christmas trees in paintings

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Long popular in Germany, Christmas trees spread across Europe and North America in the 19th century. Some seasonal paintings.

December 27, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Whiskers: beards in paintings 2

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How William Merritt Chase’s beard changed, beards in literature such as ‘Faust’, Bluebeard, Redbeard, and beware of the moustache.

July 26, 2020 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

Mother and baby in paintings 2

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Features paintings by Carl Larsson, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth, and others.

May 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in the Rain 1: 1587-1890

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In the late 19th century painters turned attention to depicting rainy conditions, with Caillebotte’s closely observed views, and effects on colour.

January 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Summary and contents

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New genres in literature gave the public a taste for different forms of narrative. Here’s a short account of the response in ‘problem pictures’ from Hunt to Collier.

September 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Puzzles for the people

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Besieged with inquiries from people who couldn’t sleep, Yeames judged a contest to explain his painting. It was clear that even he didn’t know the answer.

September 4, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Sorolla’s Naturalist paintings 1: Fishermen and white slaves

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Fine naturalist paintings from this Spanish master, showing the hard lives of fishermen, a young woman arrested for killing her child, religious ceremony, and prostitution.

July 5, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Balcony: Inside Out

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Views from a balcony, notably developed by Gustave Caillebotte in 1880, but continued in paintings by Lovis Corinth, and Pierre Bonnard.

May 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A German Naturalist? Fritz von Uhde 2

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Religious works, including two Nativities and a fine painting of Joseph and Mary walking to Bethlehem, Naturalist and Impressionist styles too.

February 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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