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Silvestro Lega was an Italian realist painter. He was one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli and was also involved with the Mazzini movement. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Silvestro_Lega_-_autoritratto_-_1861.jpg/192px-Silvestro_Lega_-_autoritratto_-_1861.jpg

an ode to carrying too much at once.

painting by Luc Olivier Merson 1880

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Shalva Kikodze (1894-1921) was a Georgian expressionist painter who worked in Georgia, Russia and later France. He also worked as a graphic artist and theatre decorator. He died of tuberculosis in Freiburg, Germany, on November 7, 1921....

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The first time I saw this piece, all I could see were the spots if flowers on blurry backdrop. The harder you look the more details appear, mottled leaves on the trees and how the branches curve over. Different tiles on the houses and fluffy edges on the clouds.

wikipedia- Seurat used a variety of means to suggest the baking heat of a summer’s day at the riverside. A hot haze softens the edges of the trees in the middle-distance and washes out colour from the bridges and factories in the background—the blue of the sky at the horizon is paled almost to whiteness. A shimmering...

Joanna Heffernan was an Irish artists’ model and muse who was romantically linked with American painter James Abbott McNeill Whistler and French painter Gustave Courbet. In addition to being an artists’ model, Hiffernan herself also drew and painted, although it is not believed she ever exhibited her work. She features in...

Self portrait of artist (1946) https://d3d00swyhr67nd.cloudfront.net/w944h944/collection/TATE/TATE/TATE_TATE_T00422_10-001.jpg

from wiki - Harrison Begay, also known as Haashké yah Níyá (meaning “Warrior Who Walked Up to His Enemy” or “Wandering Boy”) (November 15, 1914 or 1917 – August 18, 2012) was a renowned Diné (Navajo) painter, printmaker, and illustrator. Begay specialized in watercolors, gouache, and silkscreen prints. At the time...