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Reading visual art: 26 Dreams modern

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From Blake onwards, dreams often take over the whole view, with the dreamer the only link to reality. Examples from Blake, Rossetti, Hodler and others.

January 13, 2023 General, Life, Painting

From horseback to aircraft: painting the revolution in transport 2

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City streets grew a lethal mixture of horse-drawn vehicles, trams, buses, and a few motor cars. But above them flew the pioneer aviators.

August 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Barbizon, the road to Impressionism 1

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When Constable’s ‘Hay Wain’ won a gold medal at the Paris Salon in 1824, it inspired the foundation of the Barbizon School, and led to Impressionism.

April 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 10 Through a lens

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From panoramas to wide-angle views, the optical effects of Naturalist paintings, depth-of-field effects, and loss of depth through a telescope.

November 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

From world view to panorama: 1 World views

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From an elevated viewpoint, finely detailed, great depth, figures and buildings tiny in the immensity of the view, far distant horizon – it’s a World View.

February 6, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting in the Rain 2: 1890-2006

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It was Vincent van Gogh who first showed rain streaks, in a painting made just a few days before his death. They’ve since become a standard visual device.

January 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Dream 2

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Dreams painted by more modern artists, from William Blake to Paul Nash. These tend to become progressively harder to read.

October 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Rolling Thunder: lightning in the landscape

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Superb paintings of lightning storms by Giorgione, Poussin, Delacroix, Constable, Bierstadt, Rousseau, Klimt, Bonnard, and Tom Thomson.

June 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Fly Like a God: Paintings of flight before Blériot

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In search of realist or naturalist paintings of ballooning and early powered flight. Some surprises, and paintings by Watteau, Puvis de Chavannes, and Henri Rousseau.

March 17, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Seeing History: Static views

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The mental images which we perceive are created in the brain, which has some fixed ideas about how to do that. They’re not the same as optical laws used in cameras and related devices.

December 6, 2017 General, Life, Painting, Technology

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