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Reading visual art: 20 The face covered

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Before we masked up for Covid, covering the face had connotations. Here they’re explored, from the niqāb and widow’s veil to the aversion that makes us voyeur.

December 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 15: Hamlet 2

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Paintings of the death of Ophelia, from the first by Delacroix in 1838 to an etching from 1889. The most popular scene which happens entirely off-stage.

September 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 2

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Paintings of women covering their faces in embarrassment by Murillo, Gérôme, Corinth, and others.

June 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Is there a Willow? Paintings of Ophelia to 1889

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Millais’ wonderful painting of Ophelia wasn’t the first such work. From West and Delacroix to Rossetti and Bastien-Lepage, here she is.

August 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Movement in Painting: migrant artists

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Many of the great painters have been migrants. Here are examples from Canaletto to Sargent. Suppress migration, and art will be stifled.

December 18, 2016 General, Life, Painting

Anna Lea Merritt: Art locked out

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Known now from a single painting, she had a long, prolific, and successful career.

October 28, 2016 General, Painting
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