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Painting the fruitfulness of Autumn/Fall 1

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Not just the cereal harvest, but here paintings of the fruit harvest, from Bassano and Poussin, with grapes, figs, apples, blackberries, to Berthe Morisot.

September 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the revolution in agriculture 1

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Reading the history of agriculture in landscape paintings tells the story of the revolution that has taken place over the last 500 years.

August 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Sheer Delight 8: Rags and tatters

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Paintings showing the ragged tatters work by peasants and labourers, from social realism and Naturalism between 1850-90.

June 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 6 Heroes of science

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Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.

January 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Impressionist painting in Britain: 12 George Clausen

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From 1880, he painted in Naturalist style, then switched to Impressionism in the early 1890s. He finally embraced post-Impressionism in the 1920s.

October 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Down on the farm: paintings of farmyards 2

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From 1880, Naturalism showed rural deprivation, but active farmyards with plenty of livestock. Then in the 20th century came the tractor.

May 23, 2021 General, Life, Painting

In Memoriam Eugène Burnand: Alpine meadows

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Trained with Gérôme in Paris, he painted fine rural landscapes of Alpine meadows, religious works, and used advanced optical effects.

February 4, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Genre and landscapes 1

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A party of landsfolk riding in horsedriven hay wagon, the artist’s mother sewing in Nabi style, tennis in Rhode Island, and a deserted table by the sea.

December 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

On the road: Itinerants and travellers in paintings 2

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Photographers, musicians, harvesters, foresters, booksellers and propagandists, and tinkers from the roads of the past.

November 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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