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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

The Thread of Time in paintings 2: Threads

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Paintings by Joseph Wright of Derby, William Dyce, Walter Crane, JW Waterhouse, Velázquez and others with allusions to the thread of time.

January 9, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: 3 Enlightenment

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A few artists made science and technology significant themes in their paintings. Joseph Wright of Derby was among them, thanks to his friend Peter Burdett.

January 5, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Art and Science: Introduction to a new series

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From linear perspective projection, synthetic pigments like Prussian Blue, and colour theory, to the first new painting medium since oils, science and painting have developed together.

December 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

A short history of shadows in paintings 1

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From the shadowed silhouette painted by the legendary Dibutades to paintings of families involved in shadow play.

November 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Homer’s Odyssey in paintings: 3 Return to Ithaca

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Odysseus finally arrives home, but has to decide what to do with more than 100 suitors to his wife Penelope.

November 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Painting sculpture: 1 Senses, rude Romans, and sculptors

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Although painting and sculpture are closely allied, it’s curious to depict sculpture in painting. Examples range from early grisailles to ribald depictions of the Roman god Priapus.

October 24, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Asleep in the painting 1: Stories

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Sleeping figures painted by Rubens, Poussin, Velázquez, William Blake, Richard Dadd and other masters.

June 28, 2020 General, Life, Painting

Paintings of Caves 1: Sacred to Mythical

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Before folk history changed with the concept of human evolution, caves were sacred places inhabited by hermits, or figures from myth.

July 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

More Than Portraits: the paintings of Diego Velazquez 5 Sibyl and Spinners

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A sibyl, or an allegory of painting? Maybe the ‘maid of Corinth’ who legends says ‘invented’ painting. And are they spinners, or the story of Arachne?

February 20, 2019 General, Life, Painting

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