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Auguste Toulmouche (1829–1890)...

The blue murals cover T-Centralen the hub of the Stockholm metro.

Jan Toorop, born in Java in 1858 when it was still a Dutch colony, soon came to Europe and studied at the Amsterdam Academy from 1881 before continuing his studies in Brussels, Paris and London. Receptive to the many aesthetic currents then running through Europe, he soon gave up Naturalism for Neo-Impressionism, before devoting...

Janis Rozentāls...

One of the 200 Japanese wood carvings Manet collected in his lifetime. The introduction of Japanese art to the west had a huge impact, it is said to be the influence of the impressionist movement in france.

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema...

The Banjo Lesson is an 1893 oil painting by African-American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner. It depicts two African-Americans in a humble domestic setting: an old black man is teaching a young boy – possibly his grandson – to play the banjo....

James McNeill Whistler...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder...

Francisco de Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828...

Edward Hopper...

Pollice Verso is latin for “with a turned thumb”.

Here’s the summary from the Tate Modern Art Museum (available here www.tate.org.uk/art/…/meireles-babel-t14041). I have modified some of it to read easier, and supply context....

This painting by Goya (of Saturn Eating his Son fame) came from a group of smaller paintings that Goya executed - because the topic interested him rather than commissioned. Both as a visual narrative and as a painting per se it is influenced by Goya’s keen interest in the grim fate that befell many people during his lifetime....

Unlike his Impressionist friends, Degas was an essentially urban painter, who liked to paint the enclosed spaces of stage shows, leisure activities and pleasure spots....

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cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/4723760...

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