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Colour Notes 7: Colourspaces and rendering

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An introduction to colourspaces, gamuts, and how images are rendered in colour, so that what you see on your display or in a print looks right.

May 31, 2022 Macs, Painting, Technology

Goddess of the Week: A guide and contents

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From Aphrodite to Vesta, a reference summary of all the major Classical goddesses, with links to individual accounts.

April 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Artemis (Diana)

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A virgin goddess who is sometimes the major goddess of childbirth, or the great mother of nature. A huntress and goddess of the Moon.

October 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses: 1 Divine Feminine

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The Judaeo-Christian tradition lacks any goddess, unlike its predecessors in Mediterranean cultures. Is there an equivalent among its saints, or the Virgin Mary? An exploration in paintings.

June 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 5 Growth of the city

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Less often painted than the rural poor, Naturalism did show the growing pains of the 19th century cities. Paintings from Lhermitte, Luce, Bellows, and more.

January 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Murder of Marat: Painting politics and perception

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Most famously painted by David, the murder of Marat in his bath in 1793 has featured in many paintings. How has its interpretation changed with changing politics and public opinion?

March 25, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Into the Light: Arturo Michelena, a Venezuelan master

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Trained by Laurens at the Académie Julian, he was a superb history painter, quite Impressionist, and a founding father of Venezuelan art.

August 13, 2016 General, Painting
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