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Renoir

Hard reality: 4 Cast shadows in landscapes

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How to paint a landscape with faithful and coherent cast shadows, why most painters don’t do so, and a few get it wrong.

May 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Laundry: paintings of washing clothes

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Washing and drying clothes have been important activities in many landmark paintings. Selection from Isabey, Boudin, Gauguin, Renoir and others.

March 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Trojan Epics: 2 Paris and his Judgement

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Paris, Prince of Troy, is the perfect pawn in Zeus’s plan for war. He develops a taste for beautiful women, then accepts Aphrodite’s bribe in the beauty contest of the three goddesses.

March 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend in Algeria: History and Places

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Artists started to visit Algeria after the French invaded the country in 1830. Paintings of history, places and some scenes, especially in Constantine.

March 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

All the fashion: 2 Milliner

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Milliners trimmed and sold hats to customers, which appeared to be more rewarding, and the chance to wear the latest fashions.

January 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the Bay of Biscay 2

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From Quiberon and the Vendée to Hendaye and Hondarribia, in paintings from Renoir, Signac, Pierre Bonnard and others.

January 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 23 Paintings of the First Impressionist Exhibition

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Fifteen images of paintings by twelve artists which were shown at the First Impressionist Exhibition present a more coherent overview. But history is capricious.

January 10, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 22 Claude Monet

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This brisk oil sketch of fog and the rising sun in Monet’s home port of Le Havre lent its name to that for the whole movement.

January 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

The best of 2022’s paintings and articles 2

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Shipwreck in The Tempest, forgotten Impressionists, a threshing machine, a weekend on the River Seine, a pair of portraits of Thomas and Susan Eakins, a pair of clowns, and more.

December 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sunrise on Impressionism: 20 Paul Cézanne

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He didn’t start painting in Impressionist style until about 1870, and a decade later was migrating towards what became Post-Impressionism.

December 6, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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