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Reading visual art: 29 Motion and billows

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Motion can be implied against the rules we learn about how the world works. It can also be shown in billowing garments.

January 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 23 Transformation 1

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Transformations of Chloris into Flora, Daphne into a laurel tree, and Actaeon into a stag which is promptly killed by his own hunting dogs.

January 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 11 Judgement by body language

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The popular story of the Judgement of Solomon is a great challenge for visual art. Here are some of the better attempts at solution, from Raphael to Blake.

November 10, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painted Stories in Britain 10: JMW Turner

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One of the greatest British narrative painters of the 19th century, a small selection of his best from Eris picking a golden apple in 1806 to the slaveship of 1840.

November 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of William Shakespeare’s Plays 23: Coriolanus

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A Roman hero, intended to be consul, is banished because he wouldn’t get on with common people. When he can defeat Rome, who can stop him?

October 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Weekend Reflections: 1 Landscapes

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Reflections seen in landscapes from Dürer’s pioneering watercolour, through Poussin and Turner to Monet, Sisley and Neo-Impressionists.

October 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting landscapes from Rome to Paris

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Paul Bail left Antwerp, taught Tassi in Rome, who in turn taught Claude Lorrain. Claude-Joseph Vernet learned in Rome, then advised Valenciennes, and so French landscape painting came home.

September 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the fruitfulness of Autumn/Fall 1

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Not just the cereal harvest, but here paintings of the fruit harvest, from Bassano and Poussin, with grapes, figs, apples, blackberries, to Berthe Morisot.

September 3, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sargent’s Portraits 1: Three prim ladies and an orgy

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How the grand-daughters of the Duchess of Devonshire posed for the triple portrait and referred back to any orgiastic scene of bacchanalian revelry.

June 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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