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Ondine, her curse and breathing

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Invented by Paracelsus and popularised in a novella, poems and plays, Ondine became popular in painting, then in 1962 in medicine.

December 31, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 21 Footwear

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Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical.

December 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Late Autumn

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As the fiery reds of falling leaves change to dull earth browns, and we get the odd flurry of snow, we know that winter is almost upon us.

November 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 2

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More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.

October 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Coming Genius: the short art of René Beeh 1

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Four years older than Egon Schiele, Beeh was brilliant and expected to become a major artist. A century ago he died young, victim of seasonal flu.

January 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 11 Reduction

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From conventional composition in the early days of Impressionism, landscapes have been reduced, eventually ending up as areas of colour and texture.

November 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Leaves 2

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More leaf-peeping, from Tina Blau and Monet’s poplars on the River Epte, to Paul Nash’s eerie Wittenham Clumps under the moon’s last phase.

October 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Selfies: self-portraits to cherish 2

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Two by Edvard Munch, and by Lovis Corinth, Gabriel von Max with one of his monkeys, Egon Schiele with his family, the elderly Christian Krohg, and more.

June 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Life is Short: 2 Painters killed in pandemics

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Titian died of the plague, and Austrian artists were badly affected by the influenza pandemic of 1918, losing both Klimt and Schiele.

January 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Skying 8: Post-Impressionism

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Paintings of the sky by Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, Klimt, Cézanne, Schiele, Paul Nash and others.

September 1, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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