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Ukrainian Painters: Viktor Zarubin

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Among 15 works shown here are two of Sviatohirsk Monastery, destroyed by Bolsheviks after October Revolution of 1917, and shelled into ruins in 2022.

May 30, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 14 Odysseus and Polyphemus

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Queen Penelope and their son Telemachus were awaiting the return of Odysseus, whose ships ended up off the island of the Cyclops.

May 29, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Folk Tales in Paintings: Lady Godiva and Wanda

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The curious story of the countess who rode naked through the city of Coventry to win its people a cut in taxes, and Wanda of Kraków.

May 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Folk Tales in Paintings: Robin Hood and other merry men

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Robin Hood, who robbed the bad to help the poor, and his colleagues William Tell, Oleksa Dovbush and Holger Danske.

May 27, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Eugène Delacroix: 2 First success

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Started training in 1815, first commission in 1819, set his sights on the Salon of 1822, and made his name with ‘The Barque of Dante’.

May 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 57 Tridents and bidents

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Neptune’s trident has three tines, while Pluto’s is a bident with only two. Or it could be a pitchfork. How to read them in paintings.

May 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 6 Reflections in the landscape

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Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.

May 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ukrainian Painters: Fedir Krychevskyi

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After training in Moscow and St Petersburg, he taught in Kyiv. Gained international acclaim at the Venice Biennale in 1928, but starved to death in the famine of 1946-47.

May 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 2

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Paintings by Marie Spartali Stillman, Philip Wilson Steer, Paul Helleu, and William Dyce, and photography by Julia Margaret Cameron.

May 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A weekend on the Isle of Wight in paintings 1

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Paintings by JMW Turner, Clarkson Stanfield, William Dyce, John Brett, Whistler, Berthe Morisot and others.

May 20, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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