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Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore....

Logsdail didn’t fit in a camp of his time. He painted en plain air like the Impressionists, but was dedicated to picture-perfect renderings, something that was possible because of emerging technologies of the industrial age. It’s so precise I would guess it was projection-aided, but I’m not sure if that was available at...

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

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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...

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Georg Forster travelled on James Cooks 2nd voyage, during which he documented Ice Blink - a glowing light reflecting off clouds from an ice shelf beyond the horizon.

From the British Museum - “An icon of Aztec art, this turquoise mosaic was carved from one piece of cedar wood before being decorated with turquoise, coral and shell using an adhesive made from pine resin. In Mesoamerica, serpents were associated with powers of regeneration and the ability to move between living and ancestral...

Italian Futurism was officially launched in 1909 when Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian intellectual, published his “Founding and Manifesto of Futurism” in the French newspaper Le Figaro. Marinetti’s continuous leadership ensured the movement’s cohesion for three and half decades, until his death in 1944....

Incuneandosi nell’abitato is one of the most famous Futurist aeropaintings. It portrays some buildings seen from above, from the point of view of a pilot who is dangerously ‘nosediving’ on the city. The point of view is set just behind the pilot, so we can see his head and shoulders and the inside of a cockpit from which...

Futurists saw the world imbued with speed and industrial transformation. Technology and modernity were governing principles of this artistic movement, which sought triumph over the past and conservatism....

In the evolution of Mondrian’s art, this small work, painted on cardboard in a loose pointillist technique, clearly belongs with the preceding works of 1908, such as Windmill in Sunlight....

“I went out one morning to look at the Shelton Hotel and there was the optical illusion of a bite out of one side of the tower made by the sun, with sunspots against the building and against the sky,” said Georgia O’Keeffe, recalling the precise moment that inspired her to paint The Shelton with Sunspots. Although her...

Pinchon executed this work in a Post-Impressionist style with a subdued Fauve or Neo-Impressionist palette of golden yellows and incandescent blues. The dynamic image of the train in Pinchon’s painting is an homage to the emerging industrialized world....

Finnur Jonsson was one of the pioneers of abstract art in Iceland and was the first to show such works there. He also made portraits of people and nature and traveled. He worked a lot on the social issues of visual artists, wrote in newspapers and got into debates about visual art, he also worked extensively in goldsmithing and...

Marilyn Minter’s sumptuous depictions of designer-shod feet—which stalked across billboards in New York’s Chelsea gallery district as part of a public art project in 2006—have become signature images in the artist’s oeuvre. Drawing on the potent erotic charge of the high heel, Minter amplifies its currency as a...