Stories By James W Singer
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dailyart
Painting of the Week: Pavel Fedotov, The Major’s Marriage Proposal
April 5, 2020When you think of 19th-century Russia, images of Anna Karenina with black furs and white diamonds may come to mind. The lives of the wealthy aristocracy dominate the imagination with their excessiveness in everything: land, jewels,...
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Baroque
Painting of the Week: Rachel Ruysch, Vase with Flowers
March 22, 2020March is Women’s History Month, and to continue celebrating our artistic diversity let’s discuss one of the greatest still-life artists: Rachel Ruysch. Still-life paintings do not draw the crowds at museums. They are often overlooked and...
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Artists' Stories
Painting of the Week: Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, Self Portrait in a Straw Hat
March 8, 2020Why is art history predominantly focused on male artists? Are there not enough female artists to fill textbooks? Of course there are enough, but this sexism has a long legacy and it continues even today. March...
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dailyart
Painting of the Week: Pierre-Jacques Volaire, Eruption of Mount Vesuvius
February 23, 2020The ground shakes and rumbles as the nearby mountain awakens. Smoke emerges from its peaks and the volcano stirs from its slumber. The land trembles more and a fiery blast shoots into the air as lava...
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19th Century
Painting of the Week: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, The Roses of Heliogabalus
February 9, 2020Lust, Gluttony, and Sloth. Three of the Seven Deadly Sins are depicted in Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s The Roses of Heliogabalus. Many other sins are depicted alongside these cardinal vices making this an extremely wicked painting. While...
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Animals
Painting of the Week: Jean-Baptiste Chardin, The Monkey Painter
January 26, 2020It’s tacky! It’s funny! It’s weird! Yes, Jean-Baptiste Chardin’s The Monkey Painter is definitely not what you would consider in good taste. It definitely has the appeal you would find in a funny greeting card, or...
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19th Century
Painting of the Week: John Singer Sargent, Madame X
January 12, 2020Happy Birthday, John Singer Sargent! If you were alive, you would be 164 years old! The world has changed substantially since 12 January 1856, however your legacy has stood enduringly. You are still considered the leading...
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19th Century
Painting of the Week: Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England
December 29, 2019Out of the cold English air comes a man tired from a hard day’s work. He enters his home where his loving wife waits with a hot meal to warm his cold body. They sit in...
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19th Century
Winter in Paris: Gustave Caillebotte, Rooftops in the Snow
December 15, 2019You open your eyes to the early morning light filtering through your windows. You instantly feel the cold air of the bedroom as you see your warm breath rise in clouds above your bed. It is...
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Ancient Egypt
Painting of the Week: Fowling in the Marshes
December 1, 2019Ancient Egypt. The famous land of Tutankhamun evokes popular images of pyramids, mummies, and tombs. It left an artistic heritage that is still admired and appreciated thousands of years later. Tomb paintings are part of this...
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