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Reading visual art: 40 Minor Norse deities, the Wild Hunt

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Covering the Norns, Dagr, Nótt, Ægir, Gefjon, Bragi, Iðunn, Hervör, and the Wild Hunt or Åsgårdsreien.

March 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Amazons at War

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They fought the Greeks in one of the three major wars of ancient times, before that against Troy. Paintings by Rubens, Feuerbach, von Stuck and others.

February 11, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 30 Frozen motion and blur

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Perception changed with photography, and we came to interpret blur, lines and other devices as indicating motion.

January 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Reading visual art: 5 Evil serpents

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Snakes and serpents in myth, legend and religion are thoroughly sinister and bad, with one curious exception. A journey across centuries of images.

October 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Portrait of the artist’s wife 2

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More wives from Raffaela Zeppa, through Lovis Corinth’s Charlotte Berend, to Pierre Bonnard’s Marthe, plus two husbands.

October 2, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of the winds 2: Boreas

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The north wind, cold and harbinger of winter, who abducted an Athenian princess in so many paintings. Also one painting which could show Euros, the east wind.

July 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Colour Notes 10: Colour-coding gender

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Why are women sometimes shown as having very pale skin? Why did they apply cosmetics to make their faces whiter? Ask the ancient Egyptians.

June 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 10 Oedipus

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One of the famous painted narratives, Oedipus and the Sphinx proves an exception to all rules, but is glossed over in discussion of the literary narrative.

December 14, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Characters in Painted Stories: 8 Tragedy, Orestes 2

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Having murdered his own mother in revenge for her murder of Agamemnon, Orestes is hounded down and driven mad by the Furies.

December 3, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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