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Coming home to a real fire in paintings 1

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Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.

December 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Titanic and the Taj Mahal: paintings of Colin Campbell Cooper

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On board RMS Carpathia as it rescued survivors from the Titanic was Cooper, the skyscraper painter, already at work on his gouaches of the scene.

December 4, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The President’s Park and the Titanic: paintings of Francis Davis Millet

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Millet was a central figure in American fine arts, as well as a painter in mid-century Salon style. When returning from Europe he and his friend died after the Titanic struck an iceberg.

December 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the vegetable garden 2

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Children on the cabbage patch, those toiling with the potatoes, digging beetroots, and a couple of unusual paintings with cucumbers and the true vegetable gardener.

November 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 9: Chroma, class and the modern

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The experience of colour in our buildings, indoor environments, clothing and objects we look at has changed. What used to be a privilege of class is now all but universal.

June 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 1

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When Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’ won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824, it inspired the foundation of the Barbizon School, and led to Impressionism.

April 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 1

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This is when the year should really begin. A celebration of the real New Year from Botticelli to Pissarro, aided by Sisley, Van Gogh and others.

March 26, 2022 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

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