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Paintings of 1925: landscapes

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An eclectic range from LA Ring’s fine realism, Paul Signac’s Pointillism and watercolours, Pierre Bonnard in Le Midi, to Marsden Hartley and Lesser Ury.

December 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

More than a Nabi 3: Félix Vallotton 1907-1914

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Stories retold differently from Perseus and Andromeda, the Rape of Europa, and some atmospheric landscapes of Honfleur in snow and fog.

December 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

More than a Nabi 2: Félix Vallotton 1900-1906

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More mysterious interiors and cupboard views, a group portrait of the Nabis, and two of his models taking a break.

December 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

More than a Nabi 1: Félix Vallotton 1885-99

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Eclectic and mysterious paintings first in academic style, then Naturalist, a few years as the ‘foreign Nabi’ before painting unusual landscapes.

November 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Grain Harvest: Sheaves, stooks and threshing

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The harvest painted by Anna Ancher, Lhermitte, Adrian Stokes, Nikolai Astrup, John Linnell, Félix Vallotton, PS Krøyer, Gérôme, and others.

August 24, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Changing Paintings: Summary and contents parts 1-18

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Summary and contents of the first 19 articles, covering the origin of the world, the great flood, fall of Phaëthon, rape of Europa, the fall of Thebes, and more.

June 19, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 214 Problem pictures B

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By the end of the 19th century, problem pictures were popular features in the press. Most successful of British painters was John Collier, but they soon died out in the early 20th century.

May 28, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Interiors by Design: Cupboards and dressers

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From the maid washing the linen and Cinderella to fashionable homes of prosperous artists in Nordic countries, we fill a lot of cupboards, dressers, sideboards and others.

May 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 206 Colour codes B

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Ultramarine blue for Mary’s cloak, red for the Passion, cardinals and the scarlet woman. Other colour codes, including their importance in multiplex narrative.

April 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Reading Visual Art: 205 Colour codes A

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How ancient Egyptians painted women white and men more swarthy in colour. Separately, colour coding of devils brought similar distinctions.

April 29, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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