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Aerial Perspective in paintings: 2 Development and rejection

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Its peak with Bonington, Friedrich, Corot and others. Decline in Impressionism to deliberate omission in ‘primitives’ such as Cézanne and Astrup.

November 29, 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

Harvest Home in paintings – gleaners

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Far from being the idyllic countryside, the gleaners who followed the harvesters brought a strong social message.

September 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Skying 7: Impressionism

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Impressionists seem not to have taken to skying, and most of their paintings have high horizons. But there are exceptions.

August 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Henri Martin: the Divisionist Symbolist 1

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Painting Symbolist works in Divisionist style, he’s normally excluded from both movements, despite his success at the time.

June 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Dealers and painters: Durand-Ruel the architect of Impressionism

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During his lifetime, Durand-Ruel bought a total of 1,500 paintings by Renoir, over 1,000 Monets, 800 Pissarros, over 400 by Degas, and almost 400 from each of Sisley and Mary Cassatt.

April 13, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2019’s paintings and articles 2

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More favourite articles from 2019, from ‘Dante’s Divine Comedy’ as painted by William Blake, through Vincent van Gogh, to Renoir’s landscapes.

December 31, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir as landscape painter

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A short illustrated history of Renoir’s career as a landscape painter, from Barbizon to La Grenouillère, Post-Impressionism and the influence of Corot and Cézanne.

December 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Auguste Renoir 8: 1901-1905

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In which Renoir seeks comfort from his arthritis in the south of France, first in Le Cannet, then Cagnes-sur-Mer. Marvellous landscapes.

November 25, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Work in Progress: Cézanne in the Midi

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There’s been extensive speculation over his late landscapes painted near Aix. Here’s the evidence in the paintings themselves.

October 28, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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