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Whiskers: beards in paintings 2

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How William Merritt Chase’s beard changed, beards in literature such as ‘Faust’, Bluebeard, Redbeard, and beware of the moustache.

July 26, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Summary and contents

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New genres in literature gave the public a taste for different forms of narrative. Here’s a short account of the response in ‘problem pictures’ from Hunt to Collier.

September 30, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Fame

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Fine examples from Millais, Berthold Woltze, Yeames, William Quiller Orchardson, and Degas.

August 21, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Visual Riddles: Beginnings 1850-60

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In the 19th century, readers enjoyed detective and ‘mystery’ novels. From 1850, artists like William Holman Hunt and Berthold Woltze tried the same in paint.

August 8, 2019 General, Life, Painting

Painting Reality: 6 Science and technology

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From physicists to photographers developing their plates, Naturalist painters recorded the science and technology of their time.

January 11, 2019 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Berthold Woltze and his problem pictures

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A bloke leans over the back of a seat in a railway carriage, trying to chat up a young woman who is just returning from a funeral. Is this an early Prussian problem picture?

July 4, 2018 General, Life, Painting
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