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Leonardo

Hard reality: 2 Shade and shadow

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Explaining shade, attached and cast shadows seen in paintings. While the first two have been generally painted faithfully, cast shadows are more complicated.

April 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard Reality: 1 Surface textures

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Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too.

April 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of eggs

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Long before they were turned into chocolate, they were coloured, and hunted on Easter Sunday. Paintings by Claude Monet, Diego Velázquez, and others.

April 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 46 The eyes have it

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The Mona Lisa illusion, Mary Magdalene with eyes red from tears or shut in ecstasy, closed from fatigue, or nearly blinded by light.

March 31, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Broken up

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Masaccio’s 20-panel polyptych, Bosch’s triptych, and one of the most substantial paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Even Monet’s Grainstacks series.

March 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Abandoned

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Unfinished paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Tintoretto, Bonington, Bazille, Bastien-Lepage, Moreau and others.

March 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Failed media

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Tragic stories of great paintings that no longer look anything like their originals, from Leonardo da Vinci and William Blake.

March 7, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Not Like That: Introduction to a new series on paintings that have changed

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Paintings that don’t look like they were intended to be, from Leonardo’s Last Supper, to Manet’s cut-up Execution of Emperor Maximilian.

February 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 7 One arm raised

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The meaning of one arm raised depends on the position of the fingers: is it an index finger pointing to heaven, or a sign of benediction?

October 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 2: Texture in oils

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From the fur-trimmed cloaks of Jan van Eyck, to the soft folds of Lisa Gherardini’s dress: clothing and fabrics painted in oils.

April 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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