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Reading visual art: 2 Wings of Angels

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A visual history tracing wings back to their origins in messengers of the gods and messenger-gods of the dawn of civilisation, 4 millennia ago.

October 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 1 Introduction

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Rediscovering our iconology and visual tradition, starting with a Ship of Fools, Death and the Maiden, Truth coming out of her well, and the wings on angels.

September 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of painters painting 1: John Singer Sargent

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Sargent’s paintings of Claude Monet and other artists painting, mostly in front of the motif, form a unique record of painters and their techniques.

May 28, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 9 Rebirth in folk tales

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Paintings of the Sleeping Beauty and the Frog Prince only became popular late in the nineteenth century. Do they conform to the standard plot type?

December 8, 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

Barefoot painting 2

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Bare feet as a sign of rural poverty, among irregular peasant volunteer soldiers, and striking miners. But what about the kissing of feet?

April 11, 2021 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

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

Harvest Home in paintings – the harvest

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Superb paintings by Bruegel, Samuel Palmer, Daubigny, Jules Breton, Anna Ancher, Félix Vallotton, and others.

September 5, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Ribbit: Frogs and toads in paintings, 2 Princesses

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Paintings of the Frog Prince and variants by Marianne Stokes, Kolo Moser, and Pierre Bonnard. Medea by Sandys and Waterhouse.

May 17, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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