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Characters in Painted Stories: 12 Telling a familiar story

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Until the 19th century, narrative paintings showed stories which the viewer already knew, ideally at the moment of change or transformation.

January 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 3

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A painter who specialised in depicting surprise, and works by John Collier, Lovis Corinth, and Stuart Pearson Wright complete this account.

June 4, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 2

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More paintings of surprise, by Gericault, Gérôme, Regnault, Bastien-Lepage, Morelli, and others.

June 3, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

Surprise, surprise: Paintings with a twist 1

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We love surprise twists in the plot of novels and movies. How can painters achieve the effect of surprise in their narrative images? Masaccio, Rembrandt, Poussin, and more.

June 2, 2018 General, Language, Life, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Nausicaä, boy meets girl and more

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The story of Odysseus meeting Nausicaä has been a major influence in Western narrative. How has it been shown in paintings?

April 18, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Painting to the music of time

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Language has rich and precise mechanisms for dealing with time. Narrative painting is not without its tools, though.

April 9, 2016 General, Language, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa

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One of the greatest narrative paintings of all time, and the only well-known work by this promising painter.

March 14, 2016 General, Painting

The Story in Paintings: Changing fortunes

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A lesson from Aristotle on how to craft powerful narrative in paintings.

February 16, 2016 General, Language, Painting
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