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Let there be light: 2 Painting by electric light

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Electric light on the banks of the Seine in Paris, and in the shopping centres of Berlin, herald the eternal light of today’s city centres.

October 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Let there be light: 1 Painting by gaslight

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From the burning brands and oil lamps of the Greeks and Romans, to the soft light of candles, then in the 19th century came gaslights.

October 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

From horseback to aircraft: painting the revolution in transport 2

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City streets grew a lethal mixture of horse-drawn vehicles, trams, buses, and a few motor cars. But above them flew the pioneer aviators.

August 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Paintings of drawn carts 2

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Two famous hay wains, Goya’s stone cart, horses and carts assisting a heavy steam crane in Paris, and carrying goods in the centre of New York in 1911.

January 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of drawn carts 1

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From two pairs of unicorns drawing the Duke and Duchess of Urbino to a horse-drawn fire engine racing through the countryside, how animals have drawn people everywhere.

January 15, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Winter is Coming: Paintings of Fog

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Who’d want to paint much of their canvas dull, pale grey? If these paintings are anything to go by, many of the Impressionists

November 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of 1920: Landscapes 3

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More modern landscapes by Paul Nash, Anna Hills, Lesser Ury, Lovis Corinth, Pierre Bonnard, Emily Carr, and Joseph Stella’s Cubist masterpiece.

December 29, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of writing 2

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Paintings by David, Richard Dadd, Carl Larsson, Pierre Bonnard, and Jean Béraud exploring the roles of writing in the nineteenth century.

December 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in the Rain 2: 1890-2006

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It was Vincent van Gogh who first showed rain streaks, in a painting made just a few days before his death. They’ve since become a standard visual device.

January 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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

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