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Women And Girls Reading In Art And Illustration
Reading is a girl-coded activity. I haven’t done any deliberate gender curation here — paintings and illustrations of women and girls with books, letters and magazines are simply far more common. However, you will find far more men (fathers) reading newspapers.
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Carriages, Carts, Chariots and Coaches in Art and Illustration
From various angles, all through the ages
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Uplighting In Art And Illustration
Uplighting is when the main light source in a work of art is coming from below the subject. This lighting almost always lends a creepy or outright scary vibe. If you’ve ever shone a torch under your chin while on camp you’ll be well-aware of how different you look. Few (if any?) people are rendered…
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Numerous “Birds” Roosting In Trees In Art And Illustration
Some of these are not birds and are creepy.
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Falling and Diving in Illustration
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Villages In Art and Illustration
Here is a collection of art and illustration which celebrate village life.
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Crocodiles and Alligators in Art and Storytelling
Sometimes they’re friendly, sometimes foe
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Kitchen Stoves And Ovens In Art and Illustration
What do kitchen stoves look like throughout the ages?
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Windmills and Water Mills In Art and Illustration
A mill is a building equipped with machinery for grinding grain into flour. Or, a factory fitted with machinery for a particular manufacturing process e.g. “a steel mill”.
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Aeroplanes In Composition
How artists place aeroplanes (and winged creatures) on the page
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Symbolism of Hands
Whenever you’re watching a documentary which anonymises its subjects, the camera often tips down to emphasise the hands. What are the hands doing? Picking at fingernails? In a tight grip? Relaxed and open? This close up on the hands is clearly meant to say something about emotional affect. It’s also interesting to take a look…
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Looking Out To Sea
In stories, if a character is looking out to sea they’re frequently experiencing epiphany. In art, too, there’s no shortage of characters gazing out to sea. The guy giving the sermon below clearly understands the epiphanic power of the ocean, especially in combination with the higher altitude of a clifftop.
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The Bridges Of Madison County Film Study
The Bridges of Madison County is a 1995 American one-true-love romance. The film is based on a 1992 best-selling, terribly written novel by Robert James Waller.
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Witches’ Cats In Art and Storytelling
Illustrators frequently depict witches in two mutually exclusive ways: erotic and alluring, or as ugly as the dominant culture can possibly proscribe. Here are some ugly witches dancing around a fire.
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Symbolism of Green
What does green symbolise in art and storytelling?