A detailed look at the materials and technique in van Eyck’s mature works, and those of Lucas Cranach the Elder.
van Eyck
The major problems in oil painting had been solved before the van Eycks. One was a reliable supply of solvent/diluent spirits.
Introduction to a series explaining the history of oil paint, effects on techniques, hence on paintings themselves.
Probably his earliest surviving painting, his originality and genius are already starting to shine through its conventional features.
A glance through some of the unofficial history of visible brushstrokes and other painter’s marks.
Does the way in which Turner painted reflections give deeper insight into his work, or his limitations?
Because these landscape elements are constrained within the overall work, the artist has complete control over them, something reflected in their reading too. Such cameo landscapes are never awe-inspiring, but subjugate to the whole.
The importance of relative size, and height in the picture plane, in imparting depth and space in painting.
A short overview of each of the eleven painters and paintings featured so far in the series ‘Favourite Paintings’, forming a concise history of painting from 1400 to 1914.
Examines the use of metonymy, synecdoche, and symbols in representative painting prior to ‘Modern Art’ in the twentieth century.
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