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Art and Science: 1 Geometry and realism

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How an architect, two great masters of painting, and the author of an early textbook on painting applied geometric optics to change painting.

December 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Was perspective essential to the Renaissance?

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For over a century, Italian painters had strived to achieve coherent perspective projection, but it was until about 1420 that this was achieved. How essential was it?

March 11, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: What changed in the Renaissance and when?

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Considers what exactly changed in painting in the Renaissance, and when we can establish as those dates, compared with literature, for example.

March 5, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Art in Painting: 1 art and craft

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Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?

December 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Rhythm in paintings: Poplars and people

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From Monet’s rhythmic arrays of poplar trees on the banks of the River Epte to Holder’s arrays of figures, more examples of this technique.

November 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Rhythm in paintings: Depth and patterns

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Using repeated forms, usually regularly spaced, is a well-known technique for increasing depth, adding optical effects, and more.

November 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in 4 dimensions: the Brancacci Chapel frescoes

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Four masterly paintings telling stories. Painted by 3 different hands, each works in 4 dimensions thanks to narrative devices, as explained here.

February 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: Masaccio’s Holy Trinity

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A six metre (21 feet) high fresco is a major undertaking, particularly when it’s one of the first paintings to use accurate linear perspective. How was it done?

July 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 2

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Friedrich, Turner, Palmer and Bonnard are among the artists shown, with surprises by courtesy of Cézanne.

June 16, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pushing it back: depth and repoussoir 1

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Compositional techniques usually involving foreground trees which increase the depth of a picture. Explained and illustrated.

June 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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