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Paintings of 1919: Narrative

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By Pierre Bonnard, Lovis Corinth, Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale, John Collier, Joseph Stella, and others. Truly eclectic.

December 9, 2019 General, Life, Painting

There’s no smoke without painting 1

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The Sack of Troy, Turner, Vesuvius erupting, an unusual Manet maritime, Vallotton, Paul Nash, Monet, Luce, Signac, Stella and more going up in smoke.

November 23, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Bridges in paintings: Beyond Impressionism

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Modern bridges and more modern paintings from Vallotton, Bonnard, Schiele, and most prominently Joseph Stella’s ‘Brooklyn Bridge’.

July 15, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Goddesses: 1 Divine Feminine

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The Judaeo-Christian tradition lacks any goddess, unlike its predecessors in Mediterranean cultures. Is there an equivalent among its saints, or the Virgin Mary? An exploration in paintings.

June 22, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Medium Well Done: 14 Copper and other sheets

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Popular with painters during the early 1600s, copper sheets were used by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Adam Elsheimer, David Teniers the younger, William Blake, and Joseph Stella, among others.

June 18, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Medium Well Done: 8 Crayons, oil pastels, and more

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From ContΓ© crayons to oil pastels, stick media have many advantages and are rightly popular today. Here are examples by Millet, Seurat, Redon, Schiele, Bonnard, and others.

May 7, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 3, 1926 on

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He continued with extraordinary detailed fantasies of birds and flowers, and developed drawings in silverpoint with crayon.

February 3, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 2, 1919-25

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He developed near-Surrealist fantasies apparently inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, and the Cubist ‘Brooklyn Bridge’, his best-known work.

February 2, 2019 General, Life, Painting

A Weekend with Joseph Stella 1, to 1918

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A student of William Merritt Chase around 1900, he was a brilliant draftsman. He initiated American Futurism in 1913, then changed style again.

February 1, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Changing Stories: Ovid’s Metamorphoses on canvas, 23 – Minerva and the Muses

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After short mentions of Pegasus making a new spring with his hoof-print, and the strange Pyreneus, the Muses tell of their contest with the daughters of Pierus, who were turned into magpies.

June 1, 2017 General, Language, Life, Painting

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