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Paintings of Paul Signac 6: Consumption and demolition

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More fine views of Saint-Tropez, including a young woman supposedly dying of TB, an industrial Paris cityscape, and an anarchist worker.

May 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 6: One man in ten

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In some populations, as many as one in ten men has significant colour vision deficiency. What effect does that have on how they perceive paintings?

May 24, 2022 General, Life, Macs, Painting

Painting the Fountain of Life 2

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From Ondines, who kill men by their curse, to a frozen fountain in Agubbio, and parks in New York, Paris and Rome.

May 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 5: Fauvism in mainstream painting

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In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.

May 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 10 Neo-Impressionism after Seurat

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After Seurat’s unexpected and early death, Paul Signac was his artistic heir, but the movement went in different directions before fading out after 1900.

February 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Landscape Composition: 15 Rhythm

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The more of less regular repetition of form to generate rhythms has long been used in figurative painting, but in the 19th century became prominent in landscapes.

December 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

By the Azure Sea: Paintings of the Côte d’Azur 2

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Paintings from the early 20th century by artists who lived on the coast near Saint-Tropez, from Signac and van Rysselberghe to Pierre Bonnard.

September 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

By the Azure Sea: Paintings of the Côte d’Azur 1

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At the end of the 19th century, the coast near Saint-Tropez became the cradle of modern painting. Views of the coast and its distinctive light and intense colour.

September 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

To the beach! 2

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From Charles Conder’s Holiday at Mentone, Australia, to Pierre Bonnard on the beach at Arcachon in south-west France, in 1922.

August 15, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Rhythm in paintings: Depth and patterns

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Using repeated forms, usually regularly spaced, is a well-known technique for increasing depth, adding optical effects, and more.

November 14, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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