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Osman Hamdi Bey...

Taken from the wiki page on the tragedy itself - “Through inept navigation by her captain, Hugues Duroy de Chaumareys, who had been given command after the Bourbon Restoration for political reasons and even though he had hardly sailed in 20 years, Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin off the coast of present-day Mauritania and...

Frank Reynolds (1876 in London - April 1953) was a British artist. Son of an artist, he studied at Heatherley’s School of Art. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. He also contributed to Punch magazine....

Eva Hesse was hugely influential on the postminimalism art movement of the 60s, despite only being active for the 10 years before her death in 1970 from a brain tumor....

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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)....

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“Turner tackles a serious social subject, and produces a dazzlingly powerful image. Paradoxically, for a scene set at sea, he deploys a fiery palette of oranges and yellows to show the sunset reflecting a scene of human brutality. Turner was not just an artist pre-occupied by the aesthetic. This painting was owned by John...

Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)...

Frida Kahlo...

Believed to be Michelangelo’s first easel painting, completed when he was 12 or 13. Based largely on an engraving by Martin Schongauer, down to the demon’s whiskered asshole:...