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Weekend Reflections: 1 Landscapes

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Reflections seen in landscapes from Dürer’s pioneering watercolour, through Poussin and Turner to Monet, Sisley and Neo-Impressionists.

October 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 13 Little people

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Staffage – people, animals, birds, carts and ships – make a big difference to many landscape paintings. Have you met the Wanderer too?

November 24, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Eating al fresco: paintings of outdoor meals 1

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A selection of meals eaten outdoors, by the gods, in Boccaccio’s Decameron, Manet’s controversial luncheon, and by a boating party.

May 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Full Steam Ahead: 3 Everyday life

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In the last quarter of the 19th century, steam trains and ships moved artists around, playing an important role in introducing masters to the south of France.

February 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Life is Short: 2 Painters killed in pandemics

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Titian died of the plague, and Austrian artists were badly affected by the influenza pandemic of 1918, losing both Klimt and Schiele.

January 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Fjords and Munch: In memory of Adelsteen Normann 2

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With Edvard Munch launched in his career, Normann returned to painting the fjords of his native Norway.

December 26, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Fjords and Munch: In memory of Adelsteen Normann 1

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Born in north Norway, trained in Germany, he mostly painted breathtaking views of fjords. But in 1892, he seized the opportunity to change the history of art, and became godfather to one of the world’s most famous paintings.

December 18, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Next year in paintings: Tintoretto, Klimt, and more

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In the year ahead, Gustav Klimt, Ferdinand Hodler, Tintoretto, Egon Schiele, and several others: anniversaries which I will celebrate here.

January 1, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Baltic shore, Norwegian fjords, and outrage in Berlin: 2, Outrage in the city

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The Norwegian landscape painter who loved his fjords invites Munch to Berlin, and causes a furore. It makes Munch’s career, and changes the history of art.

November 26, 2017 General, Life, Painting

The Baltic shore, Norwegian fjords, and outrage in Berlin: 1, Peace on the shore

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Strange coincidences build a chain of events. From the Baltic German who painted the coast, to a Norwegian who sold paintings of Norwegian fjords in Germany.

November 25, 2017 General, Life, Painting
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