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Reading visual art: 29 Motion and billows

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Motion can be implied against the rules we learn about how the world works. It can also be shown in billowing garments.

January 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Pan (Faunus)

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Whether gentle, young and pipe-playing or hoary and older, he had the body of a man and the legs of a goat. Is he tender, or ribald?

November 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

God of the Week: Dionysus (Bacchus)

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From bizarre origins as his mother was consumed by fire, and he completed gestation in Zeus’ thigh, to his marriage to Ariadne on the island of Naxos.

November 9, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings for our time: Death and the Maiden

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A relatively common motif, it started with the peculiar association of death and the erotic, then changed in the late 19th century.

January 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, The best of the second half – 1

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Six of the best, from Nessus, Deianira and Hercules to the sacrifice of Iphigeia, painted by Tiepolo, Rubens, and others.

April 30, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Seeing History: Motion and photographic artefact

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What to our ancestors would have been blurred and defective images are now accepted as depicting motion. How our perception has changed, thanks to photography.

December 13, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 58 – The Midas touch and ears

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Two delightful and gently humorous stories, with superb paintings by Domenichino, Poussin, de Clerck (a real jewel), and Émile Lévy.

November 17, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 57 – Orpheus battered to death by Bacchantes

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After he lost Eurydice, Orpheus scorned the company of women. For this, a frenzied mob of Bacchantes overwhelm him, and tear him apart, for which Bacchus is not pleased.

November 13, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 14 – Pentheus and Bacchus

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How you mustn’t look at what shouldn’t be seen: how Pentheus was torn limb from limb by his mother and aunts.

April 5, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: who killed John the Baptist? 1 Herodias

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Salome has become a femme fatale, the author of John the Baptist’s death, and a potent erotic symbol. But that was not the original story.

January 4, 2017 General, Language, Painting

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