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van Eyck

Hard reality: 6 Reflections in the landscape

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Optical principles are straightforward, but can become extremely complex in practice. Examples from Jan van Eyck to Hodler and Signac.

May 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard reality: 5 Mirror play

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Before photography, the only opportunity to see your face, painters took advantage of the Venus Effect to break optical rules and show faces that couldn’t have been seen in the mirror.

May 17, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Hard Reality: 1 Surface textures

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Key factors making oil paint most suitable include its slow drying, wide range of viscosity, and robust paint layer. But it has its rules too.

April 21, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 33 Picture in a picture, landscapes

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Cameo views of landscapes were common practice during the Renaissance, and also had value in locating the primary view.

February 8, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight: 0 Contents

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Full contents for this series, with lists of artists considered in each of its articles, and links to the articles.

July 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 13: What colour is the sky?

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Starting from Egyptian blue in ancient times, pigments preferred by painters for sky blue have changed repeatedly. Here’s a brief history.

July 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Colour Notes 12: Monochrome paintings

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Grisaille – grey underpainting used to set the tone for a finished work – is like underwear, waiting for richly coloured clothes to go on top. Not in these paintings, though.

July 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 8: The scarlet woman

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Well known from language, the scarlet woman should be easy to read in paintings. But all that is scarlet isn’t who you’d expect.

June 7, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 1

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From sacred symbols in a mosaic of Theodora and the Adoration of the Lamb, to roadside watering holes, and the town’s fresh water supply.

May 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

The Open Door 1: paintings 1400-1890

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From Jan van Eyck to Caillebotte and Claus, these paintings show the view beyond an open doorway, commonly as a means of incorporating a landscape.

April 30, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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