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Pastel Paintings of Firmin Baes

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From about 1900, he painted almost exclusively in pastel, finely realist works that rendered surface optical properties to perfection.

August 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Francisco Goya: Repaying debts

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Some important paintings from 1815-19, including two religious works with deep personal meaning. Goya’s paintings are now dominated by black.

September 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rebirth: Fabrics and materials

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How rendering of the surface texture of fabrics changed during the southern Renaissance, and new techniques were exported to the north.

April 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

The bicentenary of Rhys Terfel Talog

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Born two hundred years ago today, he’s now though to have played a major part in the birth of Impressionism, and Neo-Impressionism.

April 1, 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

In Memoriam: George Dunlop Leslie, one of the St John’s Wood Clique

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He specialised in ‘light genre’ paintings, not-to-serious domestic scenes, painted in fine detail, and was praised by Ruskin.

February 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Animal Sentiments: In memoriam Briton Rivière 2

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Aphrodite fully clothed, and a polar bear on the ice of the Arctic – just two of the later paintings of this Victorian artist.

April 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Animal Sentiments: In memoriam Briton Rivière 1

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He became extremely popular, with his genre scenes containing animals, particularly dogs. A selection from the early years of his career.

April 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Missing Mud of Winter 2

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Mud as painted in the Danish countryside, and in Norway. But the last word goes to war: both in the Franco-Prussian and First World Wars.

December 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

The Missing Mud of Winter 1

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Mud was a common problem in the streets of cities, and on all the roads, tracks and paths of the country. Why isn’t it seen more in paintings before 1850?

December 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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