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Winslow Homer in Cullercoats: 6 The bigger picture
This article rounds off my series looking at Winslow Homer’s paintings from Cullercoats, by setting them into a narrative context. Many individual paintings have their own, small narratives. What I...
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The Story in Paintings: Hogarth’s progress
One solution to the problem of paintings being a singular medium for narrative, and not a serial medium like text, is to paint a formal series of works, which are then viewed in a particular order....
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The Story in Paintings: Hogarth’s marriage and the progress of time
In the last article, I examined Hogarth’s first two series, A Harlot’s Progress (c 1731), and its compliment, A Rake’s Progress (1732-5). This article looks at his most famous Marriage A-la-Mode (c...
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The Story in Paintings: Victorian serials
Hogarth’s painted narrative series proved to be a significant influence on later artists. Among those listed by Martin Meisel (1983) are: George Morland (1763-1804) – his Laetitia series (1786) of 6...
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The Story in Paintings: Thomas Cole’s grand series
Thomas Cole (1801–1848) is generally accepted as the founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, and is one of the founding fathers of American landscape painting. A migrant who arrived...
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Marking Time: introducing the timeline
Time is the warp through which we weave narrative. Though we can directly visualise most other elements within a narrative, we cannot see time, and can only represent it indirectly in the form of a...
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Marking Time: Timeline 3D
The first and simplest of the apps which I have used for creating media-rich timelines is Timeline 3D, which I briefly covered earlier. Free from the Mac App Store, you need to make in-store purchases...
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Marking Time: Aeon Timeline
The second app which I have used to create timelines with is Aeon Timeline, at £29.99 one of the Mac App Store’s middleweights. Whereas Timeline 3D exports similarly laid-out timelines in a rich range...
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Hogarth’s print series: Industry and Idleness 1-6
When I covered Hogarth’s narrative series here and here, I mentioned two which were not painted, but which went straight to prints. Since then I have been able to obtain images of the original drawings...
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Hogarth’s print series: Industry and Idleness 7-12
My previous article looked at the first half of Hogarth’s narrative series of prints, Industry and Idleness (1847); this looks at the remaining prints in the series, using the same format. The prints...
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Hogarth’s print series: The Four Stages of Cruelty
Following his successful narrative series of prints Industry and Idleness, William Hogarth (1697-1764) decided to moralise again over one of his favourite issues: cruelty to animals. Victorian society...
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Marking Time: Storyspace and Tinderbox
Storyspace and Tinderbox are sister applications with quite distinct purposes. Tinderbox is the most sophisticated notemaking app around, which helps you structure the information which you put into...
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The Story in Paintings: Etty’s shockingly naked narratives
William Etty (1787–1849) was a very popular narrative painter of the early Victorian era in Britain, and a contemporary of JMW Turner. Unlike Turner, whose reputation and popularity has only grown...
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Marking Time: other routes to timelines
I have illustrated how you can use: Timeline 3D to create wizzy animated timelines of one basic pattern, Aeon Timeline to create a diverse range of static timelines, Storyspace and Tinderbox to create...
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The Story in Paintings: Caspar David Friedrich’s Stages of Life
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) was a Romantic painter noted for his enigmatic landscapes which have provoked much speculation in interpretation. He was born in Greifswald, near the Baltic coast of...
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Marking Time: making good timelines
Not everyone can afford to have a graphic designer create their timelines for them, and sometimes even graphics professionals can benefit from advice. This is a short compilation of suggestions which...
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The Story in Paintings: Géricault’s Raft of the Medusa
Théodore Géricault (1791–1824) would almost certainly have slipped into obscurity were it not for one vast narrative painting: The Raft of the Medusa (1818-19). Telling the horrific and scandal-ridden...
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The Story in Paintings: Gustave Doré’s unknown paintings
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) is today known almost exclusively as a print-maker and illustrator of many books, although you may stumble across an occasional watercolour landscape or huge canvas of his, and...
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The Story in Paintings: Ingres’ Classics
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867) was a prodigious painter and a talented violinist, who studied under the great Jacques-Louis David from the age of sixteen, and won the coveted Prix de Rome...
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The Story in Paintings: David the Goliath
Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) was a history painter and portraitist whose influence dominated painting in France in the early 1800s. His classical style and subjects helped art address more serious...
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