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The Painter of the Moment, Eugène Lepoittevin

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Erotic prints, maritime history, gripping stories of the Arctic, a ‘problem picture’, and landscapes – a very eclectic artist indeed.

January 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting within Tent: Biard’s gripping tales

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He went on two expeditions: one to Spitzbergen in 1839, the second to Brazil in the late 1850s. But which of his paintings are real, and which imagined?

January 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Californian Coast of Granville Redmond

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Trained in San Francisco and Paris, he exhibited at the Salon, then painted landscapes in Tonalist style before becoming Impressionist.

January 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting within Tent: introduction to a new series

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Join me to explore Maria Merian’s insects in Surinam, David Livingstone and Thomas Baines on the Zambezi, and William Bradford working his way through pack ice.

January 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 3

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More modern landscapes by Paul Nash, Anna Hills, Lesser Ury, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Emily Carr, and Joseph Stella’s Cubist masterpiece.

December 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 2

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Enchanted Norwegian birch woods, the Massachusetts coast, Catalina Island by night, Spanish mountains, and a picturesque French village.

December 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

A History of Rome in Paintings: 19 More martyrs

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A saint banished to the island of Patmos, a history wound around a column, and a megalomaniac emperor strangled in his bath by a professional wrestler.

December 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Palm Saturday: Palm trees in paintings 1

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In search of warmth during winter, we go in search of palm trees. In these secular paintings, they appear in modern conservatories and on the Mediterranean coast.

December 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In Serbian Country: the paintings of Sava Šumanović

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One of the most important Serbian artists of the 20th century, he was a friend of Modigliani in Paris, and a prolific painter of views in Serbia.

December 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Aerial Perspective in paintings: 2 Development and rejection

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Its peak with Bonington, Friedrich, Corot and others. Decline in Impressionism to deliberate omission in ‘primitives’ such as Cézanne and Astrup.

November 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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