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The best of 2020’s paintings and articles 1

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Modigliani’s tragically early death, the American Benjamin West, who painted almost entirely in England, Raphael, Ingres, and John Singer Sargent. What a year!

December 30, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Marianne Stokes: Madonna and Child

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Having painted in Realist, Naturalist and Impressionist styles, from about 1893 she settled with the Pre-Raphaelite, even making egg tempera her main medium.

October 15, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Annie Louisa Swynnerton: The Sense of Sight

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The inscription on her gravestone reads “I have known love and the light of the sun.” Both shine through in ‘The Sense of Sight’.

October 8, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Sophie Gengembre Anderson: Elaine of Astolat

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Very much a Modern Woman, she was in London during the height of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, when she painted her masterpiece of Elaine of Astolat.

October 2, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Gods of the Week: Atlas, Prometheus and Epimetheus

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Atlas, who bears the heavens on his shoulders. Prometheus, who deceived Zeus and was bound by chains as punishment, an eagle eating his liver each day. Epimetheus, who married Pandora.

September 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

American Landscapes: a celebration 1

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A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.

July 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Critics and painters: Fry, Bell and the twentieth century

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How two people changed the history of painting in the twentieth century, and destroyed John Singer Sargent’s reputation.

June 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Covering the face in painting 3

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Why would an artist compose a painting to hide the face? Examples by Degas, Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent and others. It’s our faces that make us human.

June 21, 2020 General, Life, Painting

The context of Anders Zorn’s paintings in Sweden and beyond

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One of the three great masters who took realist oil painting into the twentieth century: we commemorate the centenary of his death in August.

June 18, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses of the Week: The Erinyes (Furies)

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Paintings by Klimt, Bouguereau, Moreau, von Stuck, and John Singer Sargent’s last vast masterpiece in Boston.

June 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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