Tales of grisly executions, and failed experiments in updating storytelling in paintings.
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Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
Unconventional treatments of popular stories, spiritual pain during the First World War, a touch of Blake, and woman murdering woman. Powerful paintings.
A brilliant woman painter, spiritualist, pacifist, and feminist, this tells of her remarkable life, art, and narrative.
Its many intricate details make this the greatest of his early works, a true masterpiece. And it features another owl.
Is video “the best way to tell stories”? Is live-streaming the way ahead for social media? Or is this just marketing hype?
Bosch’s Passion Scenes is an unusual painting, combining multi-frame and multiplex narrative in the round. Is it unique?
Accepted as being one of the greatest painters of all time, he has inspired other Masters including Tiepolo and Botticelli.
Tales of knights and doomed maidens, the Lady of Shalott and the quest for the Holy Grail, painted in static tableau.
Terms used to describe narrative mode in paintings are confusing. Here is a simpler classification, and clearer terms.
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