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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....

“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...

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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...

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.

Inspired by a haiku poem by Kawabata Bosha (1900-1941): “In the thick of the leaves / the eyes of a black cat / ominous flashes of gold”

Peter Ilsted and Vilhelm Hammershøi, together with Carl Holsøe (1863–1935), were leading artists in early 20th-century Denmark. All three artists were members of the Free Exhibitions (Den Frie Udstilling), a progressive artists association founded in 1891. They are famous for painting images of “Sunshine and Silent...

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

His other food subjects include lifelike croissant. https://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/137291/2880096/image3_670.jpeg

from the Met Museum: “In this Reconstruction-era painting, Homer evokes the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that was a legacy of slavery. The central figure represents a character from a Christmas celebration known as Jonkonnu, once observed by enslaved people in North Carolina and, possibly, eastern...