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Weekend Reflections: 2 Nocturnes and mirrors

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An unusual pastel, a couple of fine nocturnes, then some reflections of figures from Caravaggio and Bonnard, concluded by coy self-portraits.

October 23, 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

Landscape Composition: 16 Reflections

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From Dürer and Poussin to Cézanne and Hodler, reflections have been important in many landscape paintings.

December 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: 9, the revolutionary paintings of Diego Velázquez

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Live models for figures, landscape oil sketching in front of the motif, the sensuous nude, narratives with multiple readings, incredibly loose brushwork, and so much more than portraits.

March 19, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 8 Las Meninas

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Not his last great painting by any means, but his greatest and most thought-provoking. Where are the royal couple, seen only in reflection, and who is everyone looking at?

March 12, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 6 Spinners

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Is it just a quirky re-telling of the myth of Arachne and her weaving contest? What do the foreground and background have in common? A superb visual riddle, perhaps.

February 26, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 5 Sibyl and Spinners

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A sibyl, or an allegory of painting? Maybe the ‘maid of Corinth’ who legends says ‘invented’ painting. And are they spinners, or the story of Arachne?

February 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 4 From Mars to Venus

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Three religious paintings, including two skilfully-told narratives, a history, and the only nude of his to have survived.

February 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Pierre Bonnard: On Reflection

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Between 1905 and 1916, he often painted his models in front of a mirror, and played games with their reflections.

September 12, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Ripples in Reality: The Landscape Paintings of Frits Thaulow, 2

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He returned to one theme repeatedly: reflections in the rippled and turbulent surface of a river.

March 21, 2018 General, Life, Painting

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