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Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at artinsociety.com
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Caillebotte’s famous ‘Paris Street ~ Rainy Day’ (1877) was recently cleaned and had a layer of discoloured varnish removed. Turned out it was not quite so misty! Compare subtle differences between the Before and After versions (Art Institute of Chicago) www.artic.edu/articles/463... rainy-day
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Yes, there are all sorts of stuff going on in he background
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Remarkably chirpy 6th century church floor mosaics in ancient city of Theodorias (today, Qasr Libya) ~ Duck, lotuses & a sort of crocodile / Musician & appreciative dog / Resting oryx www.livius.org/museum/qasr-...
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350,000 people emigrated from England in 1852 ~ here, Ford Madox Brown depicts married couple on boat with baby inside cloak (see little hand?), huddled under umbrella, as they leave for Australia. The white cliffs of Dover recede at top R & cabbages hang on railing (Last of England)
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When I think of Caravaggio, I usually think dark shadows and passion, rather than fruit and veg ~ but here, from early in his career, is his admirable still-life Basket of Fruit (1599), complete with wormholes, insect damage & decay
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18th-century English satirist William Hogarth foreshadows MC Escher’s manipulation of impossible perspectives in his Satire on False Perspective (1754). According to this link, it has 22 errors of depth and perspective publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
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Maybe the oldest multipage “book” in the Western world? The Golden Orphism Book is claimed to be over 2,500 years old. Made from 6 sheets of 24 carat gold, bound with rings, it was discovered while digging a 20C canal (Bulgarian Nat Hist Museum, Sofia) news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/...
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In 1888, Van Gogh came across the works of the 17C artist Vermeer, who'd just been "rediscovered". In a letter to a friend he recommended "this strange painter” who “painted a very beautiful Dutch lady, pregnant". Here’s the painting he was talking about www.artinsociety.com/the-sphinx-o...
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This woodblock print by Shiro Kasamatsu shows a young woman carrying a fish, her apron ruffled by a breeze, as she walks up from the shore at Fukura. In the background, fishing boats have been pulled up on the sand (1954) www.roseberys.co.uk/a0430-lot-48...
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Prominent US artist Daniel E Greene (1934-2020) visited the New York subway and these are some of the people he saw Waiting – Brooklyn Bridge / Red Bench, 116th Street / Young Girl, 42nd Street/ Sophie in Transit
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It looks rather like a sauce boat, but it seems that about 3,600 years ago, during the Bronze Age, an unknown Cretan woman kept her cosmetic creams in this rock-crystal bowl, with its duck’s head handle
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Designated in Japan as an important Cultural Property ~ Takeuchi Seihō’s Madaraneko (’Tabby Cat’) 1924
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A hovering White-tailed Kite is teaching its fledging to hunt mid-air, by dropping prey (a small rodent) for the fledgling to catch in its talons. This prizewinning photograph by Jack Zhi captures the precise moment when the fledgling makes the catch
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No pouts, stares or simpering, just a slight smile ~ Rachel Li’s Woman with a Hat (oil, 2019) arcadiacontemporary.com/artists/77-r...
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Admiring this photograph of butterflies ‘Common Blues on Apple Mint’ by Tony North, Hoe Grange Quarry Butterfly Nature Reserve, Derbyshire (IGPOTY 2020 Awards)
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Shah Cheragh mosque/shrine in Shiraz, Iran has been a celebrated pilgrimage centre since 14th century, & is highlighted by its dazzling interior decoration of millions of tiny coloured mirrors ~ echoing its name which translates as “King of the Light” www.architecturendesign.net/emerald-tomb...
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Early 20th century Belgian artist Firmin Baes used special techniques with pastels to achieve realistic detail and a distinctive glossy finish ~ La Toilette (1914)
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Russian artist Olga Suvorova’s distinctive style includes extravagant garb of earlier eras, dream-influences, direct gazes, detailed modelling, animals & vibrant colour ~ Tamer ■ Summer Holiday ■ Enigma olga-suvorova.com/en
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Art deco sunburst-design skylight at the 1931 Buffalo City Hall, NY (photos: Chuck LaChiusa)
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This woodblock print by master Toshi Yoshida is titled ‘Hikone Castle in Spring’, but the castle itself is almost hidden behind the hill ~~ the real subject is the colourful lush fields in the foreground (1951) www.panteek.com/YoshidaFamil...
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How to surprise a young otter (Chee Kee Teo) www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...
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At the start of the Japanese rainy season, the glow of fireflies in a moonlit bamboo forest (Kei Nomiyama, “Enchanted Bamboo Forest”, 2016 Sony World Photography Awards)
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Enjoying photographer Dorothy Bohm’s evocative and nostalgic black-and-white images of Sussex people and landscapes during the 1960/70s
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Take time out to admire the bookshelves & ceilings of the wonderful early-18C Joanine Library at Coimbra, Portugal. Bats are released at night to control damage to books from bugs (& coverings are laid on tables to control damage from the bats!)
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Remarkable Byzantine jewelled gold bracelet, created over 1,300 years ago, featuring pearls, amethyst, sapphire and opal. Possibly originated in Constantinople www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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Alfred Agache depicts the Virgin wearing a fine black mantilla as she calmly receives the stunning news of her impending motherhood. Most unusually, she's not in a closed room or garden, as is typical, but sitting by a low white wall with a view of boats on the sea (Annunciation, 1891)
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Canadian artist Rob Gonsalves, inspired by Magritte, plays with reality, false expectations and perspective ~ you may need to click on the images to appreciate the full effect
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Admiring the delicate shadings of colour on this beautiful pink-necked green pigeon (Treron vernans), from south-East Asia. It quacks, rather than coos (photo: J J Harrison)
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Danish painter Viggo Johansen portrays his wife Martha arranging flowers in the kitchen of their summer holiday home (1884, Skagens Museum)
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French artist James Tissot's ‘In Full Sunlight’ depicts his Irish romantic companion/model Kathleen Newton, & children from her previous relationships, in garden of his London base in St Johns Wood. I particularly like the effect of sunlight on the parasol at R (1881, Metropolitan)
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This is apparently the world’s oldest surviving woven garment. It’s linen, more than 5,000 years old, found in a tomb at Tarkhan, south of Cairo in 1913 ~ but its extreme age was not realised till recent radiocarbon testing. Note the pleating!
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Superb gold hair ornament, with rubies pearls and cat’s eyes, Song Dynasty (960-1279), China www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
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19th century Japanese artist Shibata Zeshin liked mice and liked painting them. Here’s just one
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British artist, author (and occultist) Ithell Colquhoun’s delicate watercolour ‘Hyacinth and Cyclamen’ (1934), image courtesy of Liss Llewellyn
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Matisse painted this vibrant ‘Interior with Goldfish Bowl’ in 1914, at his modest new Paris flat, with the gently swimming orange fish, the pot plant arching toward the window, and the view to the quayside (Georges Pompidou Centre)
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Sicilian goatskin bagpipes purchased from shepherd in Taormina in 1901 (RNCM)
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Enjoying these studies of light effects as Herbert Badham depicts himself taking a moment’s break from painting, while his red-hatted model distractedly sips tea (1937, NGV) ■ and as he plays with patterns of blue in his Breakfast Piece (1936, AGNSW)
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Exquisite Art Nouveau necklace “Fuchsias” by Paris-based jewellery designer Georges Fouquet (1905)
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From macro-photographer Pierre Anquet’s astonishing close-up world of bugs and spiders ~ this is Zoropsis spinimana, aka the Mediterranean false spiny wolf spider. They say it’s harmless to humans, but…
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New article in the Journal, co-written by Elizaveta Renné & Jane Anderson, examines extraordinary life & career of Christina Robertson, successful 19C Scottish artist who left her homeland to pursue career of painting the Russian nobility. Here, Princess Zinaida
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In a 4,500 year-old tomb in Giza, Egypt, excavated in 1927, archaeologists found about 7,000 beads on an unknown woman. After a seemingly impossible re-assembly, they were seen to constitute this bead-net dress. For details of reassembly, see last part of gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-i...
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Japanese ceramic artist Hitomi Hosono incorporates the detail of leaves and flowers into her delicate porcelain sculptures hitomihosono.com
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I was all set to start imagining why this woman was holding a gun when I looked at the caption and discovered that it was a fan ~ not quite as exciting, but an interesting image nonetheless! Gustave Jean Jacquet’s ‘Lady with a Fan’ 1890s (Chrysler Museum)
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Look into the wineglass for a reflection of the artist sitting near the window, in this detail from a 1610 still-life attributed to Ambrosius Bosschaert www.flickr.com/photos/hen-m...
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Remarkably, Velazquez was only 18 or 19 when he painted this accomplished ‘Woman Frying Eggs’ (1618). The young boy in that painting later re-appears, in the same pose, in the artist’s ‘Waterseller of Seville’
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Awe-inspiring details of Rembrandt’s painting of his aged mother (1630, Royal Collection London)
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Artist Janet Luxton’s fine eye for detail encourages us to see beauty in the seemingly mundane ~ Chinese Goose, 2018 australiangalleries.com.au/artists/jane...
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Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese woodblock prints & felt it was instructive to copy the works of artists whom he admired ~ his painting ‘Bridge in the Rain’ (1887) is a tribute to Hiroshige’s woodblock print ‘Sudden Shower over Shin-Ōhashi Bridge’ (1857)
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On D-Day, #OTD 1944, Robert Sargent took this iconic photo of US troops of Company E/16th Infantry wading toward Omaha Beach, Normandy. Imagine what they felt. On landing, they faced fierce resistance. Two-thirds of them became casualties. Sargent himself survived and lived to 89
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