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Medium and Message: Varnish and the mists of grime

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Composition and effects of different types of varnish, with its visual effects, and how it can make a painting unreadable when it contains accumulated dirt.

November 11, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Adorations: paintings for Boxing Day

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By William Blake, Jules Bastien-Lepage, Edward Burne-Jones and others, Edward Stott, Albin Egger-Lienz, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Kazimierz Sichulski.

December 26, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 157 Hospitality in life

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Religious paintings of the parable of the Good Samaritan, and Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well, and charitable saints, before all changed in the 19th century..

September 11, 2024 General, Life, Painting

A painted weekend in Morocco: 1867-1914

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Paintings of Morocco by Marià Fortuny, Théo van Rysselberghe, Enrique Simonet, and Henry Ossawa Tanner.

June 16, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 107 A life in bed, sickness and death

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Sleeping Beauty, a morning nude, in sickness, and the deathbed. Killed in bed, two unusual depictions of the Virgin Mary in bed, and one of a bed floating on the River Seine.

January 24, 2024 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1923: 1 Narrative

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Franz von Stuck, Lovis Corinth, Jacek Malczewski, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Albin Egger-Lienz, and Edmond Aman-Jean tell stories from 1923.

December 15, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Who had John the Baptist killed? 2 Salome

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In 1876, Moreau recast Salome as the author of John the Baptist’s execution, amplified by Oscar Wilde, Richard Strauss, and the Dance of the Seven Veils.

November 12, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Painting on the edge: Spinning wheels

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The only way to impart perception of motion of a spinning wheel is to blur it, which is what we naturally perceive. Examples of motion blur.

October 6, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Modern Christmas paintings: Adorations

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Modern interpretations of the adorations of the shepherds and the three kings or magi, from William Blake to Sichulski’s triptychs in 1938.

December 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Modern Christmas paintings: The Annunciation

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Modern interpretations of this popular traditional theme in Christian religious painting, from Pre-Raphaelite to the end of the 19th century.

December 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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