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Reading visual art: 21 Footwear

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Only the gods wore sandals in the ancient world. Then the state of your footwear told much about you, with fashion opting for the outrageously impractical.

December 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Coming home to a real fire in paintings 2

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Two paintings by van Gogh, and others show open fires and stoves heating homes and other places up to 1930.

December 11, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the vegetable garden 2

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Children on the cabbage patch, those toiling with the potatoes, digging beetroots, and a couple of unusual paintings with cucumbers and the true vegetable gardener.

November 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Painting the vegetable garden 1

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Caillebotte’s gardening almost stopped him from painting, and Vincent van Gogh shows vegetable gardens on the hill of Montmartre.

November 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Weekend Reflections: 2 Nocturnes and mirrors

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An unusual pastel, a couple of fine nocturnes, then some reflections of figures from Caravaggio and Bonnard, concluded by coy self-portraits.

October 23, 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

Sunrise on Impressionism: 4 Armand Guillaumin

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A French Impressionist, he painted alongside Pissarro and Cézanne, and was key in introducing Pissarro to Seurat and Neo-Impressionism.

August 17, 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

Colour Notes 9: Chroma, class and the modern

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The experience of colour in our buildings, indoor environments, clothing and objects we look at has changed. What used to be a privilege of class is now all but universal.

June 14, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Paul Signac 4: Two deaths and marriage

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Deaths of Van Gogh and Georges Seurat. Signac’ unsuccessful interiors, and his far more popular landscapes.

May 12, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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