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Reading visual art: 14 Bring on the clowns

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Clown figures including Harlequin, Pulcinella and Pierrot are derived from the commedia dell’arte, a favourite of Watteau and other painters.

November 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of fans

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Paintings from Watteauto George Bellows showing this popular fashion accessory, sometimes used for surreptitious communication between lovers.

August 27, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of painters painting 2: Louis Béroud and the missing Mona Lisa

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On the morning of 22 August 1911, he arrived to paint the Mona Lisa, but it had vanished from the wall of the Louvre. Who had stolen it?

May 29, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Sheer Delight 6: Flesh and fashion

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Pastellist like Rosalba Carriera led the way in making marks to create the illusion of finely detailed fabrics. This contrasts with smooth and detailed faces.

May 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Pastel Portraits of Rosalba Carriera

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One of the most brilliant of the first wave of painters in pastels, a founding mother of the Rococo, and one of the greatest of all women painters.

May 13, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

A cavalcade of colour: 1 yellow to blue

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A trip round the painter’s palette, with outstanding examples of well-known colours in use. Starts with yellow, then to red and finally to blue.

March 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Into the Rococo: In Memoriam Antoine Watteau 2

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Major paintings from the last four years of his life, including his final visit to the commedia dell’arte, an unusual Judgement of Paris, and a shop sign.

July 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Into the Rococo: In Memoriam Antoine Watteau 1

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Marking 300 years since the woefully early death of the master of the Rococo. Early paintings show the development of the fête galante, and its zenith in ‘Embarkation for Cythera’.

July 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Next year in paintings: Ford Madox Brown, Antoine Watteau, Fernand Khnopff

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A look forward to the eclectic collection of painters whose anniversaries I’ll be marking here, and a glimpse of some of the paintings to come. Happy New Year!

January 1, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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