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Oil on cardboard; 31.5 x 21.5 cm....

from Wikipedia - Painted in 1917, the uncommissioned piece depicting an unidentified woman was on an easel in his studio when he died in 1918.

Dominique Lang (1874-1919) was born in 1874 (the year of the first Impressionist exhibition in Paris) and is considered today to be Luxembourg’s most important Impressionist painter....

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From the The Secret life of Hydrants by illustrator Zina Saunders: "The water beast, Hydra, guarding the entrance to the Underworld in lower Manhattan awaits Hercules: “Bring it on, big guy!”...

Detailed Analysis of this painting: blog.artsper.com/…/understanding-velazquezs-iconi…...

It was at the age of 25 when Joseph’s love for the craft blossomed. As a creative and struggling actor in Los Angeles, he found art as a way to express himself freely. Painting became his way of being creative in a buzzing city and being grounded and mentally refreshed. After a year of trial and error and honing his technical...

Part of the Hyperrealistic Art Movement beginning in the 1970s in America and Britain, this sculpture is on display at the Saatchi Gallery of London....

The Red Vineyards near Arles​, a painting made by Vincent van Gogh in November 1888, in Arles, when Vincent was living in relative happiness with Gauguin (but only a month before he would cut off his left earlobe in a fit that has never been fully understood)....

Here we can see van Gogh’s style point at something to come later - cubism. Typically his style is longer strokes, ie Starry Night, to convey motion or movement of light. Here however his strokes are short - almost to pointillism, but this predates cubism by nearly 20 years.

Artist Hans Reudi Giger, was a Swiss-born proponent of “biomechanical art” blending human and machine. His work in the 60s and 70’s went on the influence monster and set design for the Alien film series. He often collaborated with his muse and sometimes lover Li Tobler until her death at age 27. Her face is visible in some...

At the Salon of 1804, Gros debuted his painting Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa. The painting launched his career as a successful painter. It depicts Bonaparte in Jaffa visiting soldiers infected with the bubonic plague. He is portrayed reaching out to one of the sick, unfazed by the illness. According to P. Jill...

Nerdwriter did an excellent video on Sargent’s paintings...

One of the most exciting modern artists I have stumbled across since starting these essays. Obi is a Nigerian artist with impressionist and expressionist tendencies with beautiful execution and style. Here we see she also plays with framing and separation, the photographer’s left hand on a camera is separate from the main...

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