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Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The Likeness of Truth 2

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Three paintings within 5 years, usually claimed to be responses to the Dreyfus Affair. But one was much more about modern art and photography.

June 27, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 9 Summary and Index

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Illustrated summary of the 8 articles in this series, links to articles on specific themes, alphabetical list and links for artists, and recommended books.

January 29, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 8 Outcome

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The influence and inheritance of Naturalism is hard to judge even now. Given the dramatic change in painting in the 20th century, its greatest inheritance may be in photography.

January 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 7 Decline

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A lot changed in painting in the 1890s. Within just a few years, Naturalism went from being all the rage to old hat. These paintings show how.

January 17, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Too Real: the narrative paintings of Jean-Léon Gérôme, 7

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His late career tackled his dislike of Impressionism, sculpture, photography as an art, and the depiction of truth – in several superb paintings.

August 16, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Real Jules-Alexis Muenier: 2 Painting from photographs

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As an avid photographer, how did he use his many photographs in his paintings? Was he just a copyist?

June 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

The Real Jules-Alexis Muenier: 1 Paintings

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During his career, over 300 of his paintings were shown in the Salon, many being bought by the state for public collections. Yet he has all but vanished since.

June 20, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Jules Bastien-Lepage: Avatar of Naturalism, 1

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A detailed look at his paintings of the rural poor which led up to Naturalism, and how he used a compositional formula so successfully.

March 6, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Amsterdam for Real: Paintings of George Breitner 2

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‘Girl in a Red Kimono’ is a major work of Japonisme, and relied on photos as well as drawings and sketches. His name has even entered the Dutch language.

February 28, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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