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The Start of the Year: Paintings of Spring 2

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Twentieth-century paintings of Spring, from Renoir to Grant Wood, with the help of Bonnard, JW Waterhouse, Granville Redmond and others.

March 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paint fast, paint slow

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From 15 minutes to sketch a passing thunderstorm in oils, to more than a year for several masterworks of the 19th century.

February 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Complete Angler in paintings 2

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More anglers caught with their rods and lines in paintings by Troyon, Corot, Hodler, Carl Larsson and a surprise catch from Tom Thomson.

February 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A short history of shadows in paintings 2

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Telling a story using shadows, and the nineteenth century controversy over the colour of shadows.

November 21, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Winter is Coming: Paintings of Frost

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Frosts herald the winter, a time when few landscape painters work out of doors, but retreat to the studio. These paintings of frost come from the hardiest of artist.

November 13, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 8 Tearing the book up with trees

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How trees came to invade Impressionist landscape paintings, in direct contravention to established principles.

October 27, 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

Painting Within Tent: John Turnbull Thomson painted all he surveyed

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As a surveyor and civil engineer, he was more familiar with the inside of a tent than an office. Paintings of Malaya, Singapore and New Zealand.

February 18, 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

Autumn Trees 2

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In the first article of this pair, I showed a selection of some of the finest paintings of […]

October 13, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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