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What Is a Painting?

Jean
What Is a Painting?
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28 episodes

  • What Is a Painting?

    Episode 28 - The Tears of Trees

    09/01/2026 | 33 mins.
    How did painters use natural resins to varnish their paintings?
  • What Is a Painting?

    Episode 27 - Higher Ground

    10/10/2025 | 27 mins.
    How did 16th century Venetian painters vary their ground layers to create different effects?
  • What Is a Painting?

    Episode 26 - Particular Magic

    25/07/2025 | 33 mins.
    How did Venetian painters of the 16th century use canvas supports and oil medium to create a new kind of painting?
  • What Is a Painting?

    Episode 25 - A Big Cloth

    10/06/2025 | 36 mins.
    How have natural aqueous media been used over the centuries, including by one of the most famous artists of the 20th century?
  • What Is a Painting?

    Episode 24 - Reinforcements

    24/04/2025 | 29 mins.
    What can be done to reinforce a degraded canvas support of a painting, and how can that change that painting's look?

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About What Is a Painting?

What do you see when you look at a painting? You see the subject and the style of the work but also the materials and technologies used to create it and the traces of everything that has happened to it. Professional paintings conservator Jean Dommermuth considers how all of those factors contribute to what a painting is. You don’t need to know anything about art history to enjoy this podcast, but no matter what, you’ll never look at a painting the same way again. You can find images and related materials at jeandommermuth.com/podcast
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