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Memling

Reading visual art: 32 Up to 23 scenes in one image

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Seen in more complex variants by Tintoretto and Memling, and in modern paintings by Corot and Thomas Hart Benton.

February 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes: Introduction, what we see

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What do paintings look like to someone with deuteranopia? Why do great paintings ‘draw’ the eye? Do we see the colours the artist intended? And how many words for blue are in Ukrainian?

April 14, 2022 General, Language, Macs, Painting, Technology

Altogether Now: 1 Hans Memling’s Passion, 1470

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In 23 scenes from the triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his Resurrection, Memling tells what takes a Gospel six chapters in a single painting.

February 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Altogether Now: Introduction to uniquely visual narrative

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How many verbal stories or movies tell dozens of different stories? Here are paintings that are not only so rich in narrative, but tell all those stories at the same time.

January 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: Flowers

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Probably the original still life theme, and always a popular one, examples from Fantin-Latour, Bazille, van Gogh, and poignant paintings by Lovis Corinth and Charles Demuth.

August 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life History: 1 Birth of a new genre

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Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.

May 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Passion Complete: Telling the whole story 1

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Few paintings attempt to tell the full story of the Passion. Here are remarkable works by Duccio, Hans Memling, and Hieronymus Bosch.

April 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Is this a racist image, or is there a more complex account?

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Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.

July 3, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in 4 dimensions: Renaissance Passions

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Telling a more complex story such as the Passion is more demanding. This traces how it broke out of frames, ultimately into Tintoretto’s masterpiece.

February 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The story of painted narrative 1

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Easily told in words, stories are harder to paint. Here are five main methods used, explained and shown in examples from the masters.

February 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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