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Jon Imber: The Spiral & the Source

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Painting Expanded

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John Walker: In Conversation

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The Symbolist Landscape

Link to post:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jul/13/symbolism-van-gogh-kandinsky-in-pictures

Jul 13

Akseli Gallen-Kallela: Lake Keitele, 1905, Finnish National Gallery / Central Art Archives / Hannu Aaltonen

Photo blog of paintings from the exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky, Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 at the National Galleries of Scotland on view through October 14, 2012.

The exhibition, which includes paintings by lesser known painters such as Jens Ferdinand Willumsen and Akseli Gallen-Kallela is "dedicated to Symbolist landscape painting... a more imaginative, emotional response to the world around them – a route which took [artists] from Naturalism to the edges of Abstraction. The exhibition will present a wide range of poetic and suggestive paintings of nature from about 1880-1910."

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The Guardian

Australian & Danish 19th c. Landscape

Link to Post:

http://altoonsultan.blogspot.com/2011/02/against-american-exceptionalism.html

Altoon Sultan calls well-deserved attention to an alternative cannon of 19th Australian and Danish landscape painters. She writes: "Luminism was defined as a peculiarly American painting style. But really, it's not; I disagree with Novak who calls it "one of the most truly indigenous styles in the history of American art."

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Studio and Garden

Edvard Munch's Damaged Retina

Link to Post:

http://www.twocoatsofpaint.com/2012/06/edvard-munchs-damaged-retina.html

Sharon Butler blogs about Edvard Munch's - on view in the exhibition Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye at Tate Modern through October 14, 2012.

Butler writes that the show "focus[es] on the neglected aspects of [Munch's] often radical work, particularly his use of film and photography..." She also calls attention to a fascinating group of paintings and drawings Munch made after "he suffered a serious intraocular hemorrhage in his right eye, and, later, another one in his left. The condition left a blind spot, splotches and blood clots that impacted both his vision and his painting. He documented the effects in watercolors and drawings, but the visual impairment affected his other work as well."

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Two Coats of Paint