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Next Year in Paintings: Joaquín Sorolla, Alexandre Cabanel, Sir Joshua Reynolds and more

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Coming this New Year are the tercentenary of the birth of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the bicentenary of the birth of Alexandre Cabanel, and the centenary of the untimely death of Joaquín Sorolla.

January 1, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight: 0 Contents

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Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.

July 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 11: Sorolla and Zorn

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In Spain, Sorolla was first Naturalist, then his style loosened to resemble that of Sargent; Zorn in Sweden painted early detailed watercolours before loosening up in oils.

June 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 6 Heroes of science

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Claude Bernard, whose 1865 book on experimental physiology was popular with Zola and many artists, two scientists who drew the structure of the brain and more.

January 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

To the beach! 2

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From Charles Conder’s Holiday at Mentone, Australia, to Pierre Bonnard on the beach at Arcachon in south-west France, in 1922.

August 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Distant snowline: the coming of autumn in the mountains 2

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More wonderful paintings of snowlines on the Sierra Nevada, in the South Tyrol, the Bavarian Alps, and in Maine. Autumn has arrived, and winter’s coming close behind.

October 11, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 3: Homeless

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Exhausted and destitute figures asleep, by Christian Krohg, Ferdinand Hodler, Sorolla, Waterhouse, and others.

June 30, 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

Finale: The Exposition Universelle of 1900, 1

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Looking back at the art of the nineteenth century, there was a large section devoted to Impressionism, but acclaimed Symbolist and other paintings too.

June 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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