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The Art in Painting: 3 Cameras

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Did Vermeer use a camera obscura? What went wrong with Impressionist oil sketches? When did Klimt paint from photographs? Does any of this really detract from the art in a painting?

December 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Aerial Perspective in paintings: 1 Ground rules

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The way that distant hills fade in contrast, detail and colour, and how their hue shifts towards cooler colours. From Antonello (1475) to Thomas Girtin.

November 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Twentieth Century Vermeer: William McGregor Paxton

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He developed from the style and optics of Vermeer’s paintings, limiting depth of field to develop bokeh. And he painted ‘problem pictures’ too.

October 24, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: Vermeer’s Milkmaid

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The paintings of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) were quickly forgotten after his death, and his art fell into obscurity. […]

October 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Crown Jewels: Precious stones in paintings 2

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More jewels and jewellery, including a portrait of Queen Victoria, Salome, Helen of Troy, and two of Klimt’s golden girls.

September 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Crown Jewels: Precious stones in paintings 1

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If you thought glassware was tough, try painting gems and jewellery. Here are a few paintings where this has worked, including two of Rembrandt’s.

September 14, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Virtuoso Performance: glass in paintings 2

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More virtuoso glassware as painted by William Holman Hunt, Chase, De Nittis, Vallotton, and others in the 19th century.

September 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Virtuoso Performance: glass in paintings 1

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One of the great technical challenges in painting, glassware has been used by young and aspiring artists to demonstrate their skills. Antonello and Cranach to Liotard’s pastels.

September 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Over the Rainbow: getting the colours right

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Rainbows are one of nature’s grand spectacles. How careful, then, have painters been to get their colours in the ‘right’ order?

March 4, 2017 General, Painting

Reflections in art: 6 – How we paint from the brain

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Understanding the mental processes involved in painting is vital to understanding how reflections could go wrong.

January 2, 2016 General, Painting, Technology

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