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Openly mocked by the audience at the first Salon des Refuses in 1863, Whistler’s vision of “art for art’s sake” did not go over well at that time....

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Benjamin Carbonne was born in 1970 in Saint-Martin d’Hères in the Isère. A self-taught artist, he starts making art at the age of 20 and gets to express the things that bother him, sometimes his own violence, that of the others or of the world and finally to make place in himself for something else....

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,...

Efraín Enrique Recinos (born may 15, 1928 — died october 2, 2011)...

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You can be a detective with Hammershoi. Any piece can be analyzed and speculated at ad nauseum. They are massive with widely interpretable elements....