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The Art in Painting: 1 art and craft

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Latest in a succession of techniques, AR can guide someone to draw, just the camera obscura, photography and projectors did. Do these detract from the art in a painting?

December 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Palm Saturday: Palm trees in paintings 1

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In search of warmth during winter, we go in search of palm trees. In these secular paintings, they appear in modern conservatories and on the Mediterranean coast.

December 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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

God of the Week: Hermes (Mercury)

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Seldom shown in lead roles, superb paintings by masters including Botticelli, Blake, Renoir, and Velázquez, and one strange myth to finish.

November 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddess of the Week: Artemis (Diana)

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A virgin goddess who is sometimes the major goddess of childbirth, or the great mother of nature. A huntress and goddess of the Moon.

October 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 2 Pygmalion and Gérôme

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The king of Cyprus whose ivory sculpture turned into his future wife, painted by Regnault and Burne-Jones, and Gérôme’s fascinating paintings of his painted figures. And turning painting into sculpture.

October 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Anyone for Badminton? Its early history in paintings 2

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In the mid 1800s, battledore was played by young women rather than children, then gained its characteristic net.

September 20, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The cypress tree in paintings 2

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More paintings of cypresses by Vincent van Gogh, Renoir, Modigliani, and Gustav Klimt.

August 16, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The Art of Anders Zorn 3: Switching to oils

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During a visit to St Ives in Cornwall, he starts painting in oils, then moves to Paris where commercial and artistic success await.

July 22, 2020 General, Life, Painting

In the limelight, paintings of the theatre 2: audience

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Paintings of people watching plays, by Daumier, Degas, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and others.

July 12, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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