Romance Comes Down Out of Hilly Woodlands (flashbak.com)
Sidney Sime (1865-1941).
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The lace-maker - Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1823) Oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Tropinin was a Russian Romantic painter. Much of his life was spent as a serf. In 1823 at the age of 47 Tropinin at last became a free man and moved to Moscow. The same year he presented his paintings The Lace Maker, The Beggar and The Portrait of artist Skotnikov to the Imperial Academy of Arts and received the official...
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The Tree of My Life - Joseph Stella (1877 - 1946) (www.norton.org)
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Pizza Party by Natalia Fabia (images.squarespace-cdn.com)
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L’Empire des lumières (Empire of Light) (www.guggenheim-venice.it)
RENÉ MAGRITTE...
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Isabella de’ Medici by Bronzino (www.openculture.com)
Isabella had been waiting a long time for such tender attention, concealed beneath a 19th-century overpainting depicting a daintier featured woman reputed to be Eleanor of Toledo, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici, the second Duke of Florence.
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The Munitions Girls - Stanhope Forbes (1918) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Dumpster Diving - Patricia Van Lubeck (i0.wp.com)
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Odds and Ends - Emily Carr (1939) (uploads4.wikiart.org)
eclecticlight.co/…/totems-and-trees-emily-carrs-p…...
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The Dead Christ with Angels - Édouard Manet (1864) (upload.wikimedia.org)
MANY PROGRESSIVE mid-nineteenth-century artists, including Gustave Courbet, felt it was dishonest to paint things that could not be observed at first hand: for example, angels with wings. In fact, “Religious painting has disappeared,” pronounced one critic of the Salon of 1857. Not surprisingly, Manet’s The Dead Christ,...
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Chess - Georgy Kurasov (2.bp.blogspot.com)
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Morning. Fantasy - M.K. Ciurlionis (1904) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Untitled - Efraín Enrique Recinos, Guatemala (4.bp.blogspot.com)
Efraín Enrique Recinos (born may 15, 1928 — died october 2, 2011)...
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Artists Collection - Susan Paterson (2018) oil on panel (www.artrenewal.org)
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Snap the Whip - Winslow Homer (1872) oil on canvas (www.milwaukeeindependent.com)
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Interior with an Easel - Vilhelm Hammershøi (1912) (upload.wikimedia.org)
You can be a detective with Hammershoi. Any piece can be analyzed and speculated at ad nauseum. They are massive with widely interpretable elements....
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John William Waterhouse,The Soul of the Rose (1908) (i.imgur.com)
The Evening Before by Caspar David Friedrich (1821) (i.imgur.com)
Etching by A. Fox after Joseph Wolf, 1853 (reddthat.com)
Full title: Α Fox dressed as a Monk is greeting a passing Hare Etching by A. Fox after Joseph Wolf, 1853
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Aurora Borealis - Frederick Edwin Church (1865) Oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Always impressed by accurate renderings of the Aurora from a time when the phenomenon was barely understood .
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Fruit and Flowers - Paulus Theodosius van Brussel (1789) oil on wood (cdn.gallerix.asia)
Recently had the chance to see these in person, such large works and vivid colours, and tiny details. See the cherry at bottom.
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'‘Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter'’, oil on canvas, ca. 1847, United States Senate'‘Niagara, The Table Rock in Winter'’ - Régis François Gignoux (1847) United States Senate (upload.wikimedia.org)
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton (1895) (i.postimg.cc)
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Maria Stuart - Wenceslaus Hollar (1650) ink on paper (upload.wikimedia.org)
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