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Hard Reality: Introduction to the development of realism

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The hard road to realism: development and propagation of knowledge, how to apply it in paintings, and its benefit on visual art.

April 14, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Swiss Lakes: Geneva

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From Turner, through Calame, John Ferguson Weir, and the last paintings of Gustave Courbet in exile, to Ferdinand Hodler.

January 28, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 12 Colourmen and tubes

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It has been claimed that Impressionism relied on oil paint being sold in tubes. In fact that was but a part of a change from craft to technology in the artist’s studio.

March 8, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 7 Technology

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Paintings of iron and steel production, printing, lead mining, machining a cog wheel, spinning, and developing a photograph.

January 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Leaves 2

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More leaf-peeping, from Tina Blau and Monet’s poplars on the River Epte, to Paul Nash’s eerie Wittenham Clumps under the moon’s last phase.

October 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Autumn Leaves 1

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Come leaf-peeping with painters from Samuel Palmer in the Weald of Kent, to Julian Alden Weir’s autumn rain.

October 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Still Life ++ : paintings of the artist’s studio 1

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These became popular during the 18th century, revealing models and those painting them, assistants, and many others. They also became complex allegories.

June 12, 2021 General, Life, Painting

American Landscapes: a celebration 1

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A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.

July 4, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Willard Metcalf, American Impressionist 1

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Barely known in Europe, he studied in France for 5 years, then from 1888 was a major landscape painter in the US, one of The Ten.

February 6, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Painting in the Rain 1: 1587-1890

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In the late 19th century painters turned attention to depicting rainy conditions, with Caillebotte’s closely observed views, and effects on colour.

January 25, 2020 General, Life, Painting

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