All posts tagged "artists"
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Artist
Painting of the Week: Artemisia Gentileschi, Self Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria
March 24, 2019Artemisia Gentileschi (1593 – c. 1656) was ‘one of the best Italian Baroque painters.’ Despite this, you...
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Cinema
Representation vs Reality: Artists Portrayed in Midnight in Paris. Part I
January 3, 2019In Woody Allen’s 2011 Midnight in Paris, Owen Wilson plays a nostalgic screenwriter who somehow finds...
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Middle Ages
Let It Be: The Annunciation In Medieval And Renaissance Christian Art
August 28, 2018Religious themes in art have prevailed throughout time. Whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, Islam, or Hinduism...
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Sculpture
Laocoön: The Work of a Lifetime
August 27, 2018The subject The statue “Laocoon and his sons”, attributed to Greek sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus,...
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20th century
Seven Haunting Town Paintings by Egon Schiele
July 2, 2018Austrian artist Egon Schiele is best known for his shamelessly erotic and frank representations of the human...
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Painting of the Week
Painting of the Week – In the Studio by William Merritt Chase
July 1, 2018William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an important American artist and teacher. He also had a really...
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20th century
Pictures On My Wall – The Art Of Polish Film Posters
May 29, 2018The emergence of the poster as a fresh, creative medium was a timely episode in an...
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20th century
Free as a Bird – Max Ernst, Lop Lop and The Art of Chance
May 4, 2018The unconscious mind can serve as a revealing personal landscape. Feeding our dreams, shaping our personalities...
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Artists' Stories
Ogunquit Artist Colony: The Painter’s Paradise
April 18, 2017The Abenaki people native to southern Maine knew of their homeland’s allure long before their European...
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Women Artists
Six Female Artists of the Hudson River School
March 4, 2017The Hudson River School, a movement in American landscape painting, was America’s first independent artistic tradition. It was very...
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Few Comments On Courbet’s Origin of the World
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Made for Reflection: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden
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The Dreaming Youths: A Children’s Book That Parents Would Hide From Their Kids
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11 Things You Might Not Know About Leonardo Da Vinci
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A Glimpse of Maritime Life in the Past in 7 Artworks
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Painting of the Week: Mary Cassatt, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair
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Rembrandt’s Light—Dulwich Picture Gallery
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10 Most Scandalous Nudes in Art (NSFW)
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An Art Advent Calendar of Nativities
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4 Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness (And How It Affected Their Art)
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