Morning - Dod Proctor (1926) oil on canvas (media.tate.org.uk)
The Munitions Girls - Stanhope Forbes (1918) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
Symphony in White, No. 1 - James McNeill Whistler (1862) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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....
Odds and Ends - Emily Carr (1939) (uploads4.wikiart.org)
eclecticlight.co/…/totems-and-trees-emily-carrs-p…...
Elohim Creating Adam - William Blake (1795) (media.tate.org.uk)
tate.org.uk/…/blake-elohim-creating-adam-n05055...
Madone - Benjamin Carbonne (2021) (media.artsper.com)
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....
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,...
Chess - Georgy Kurasov (2.bp.blogspot.com)
The Vision To The Youth Bartholomew by Mikhail Nesterov (1890) (i.imgur.com)
Maiden's Tower - Nusret Çolpan (idsb.tmgrup.com.tr)
Morning. Fantasy - M.K. Ciurlionis (1904) (upload.wikimedia.org)
Galatea of the Spheres - Salvador Dali (1952) (3.bp.blogspot.com)
Untitled - Efraín Enrique Recinos, Guatemala (4.bp.blogspot.com)
Efraín Enrique Recinos (born may 15, 1928 — died october 2, 2011)...
Christ carrying the Cross - Anthony van Dyck (upload.wikimedia.org)
Artists Collection - Susan Paterson (2018) oil on panel (www.artrenewal.org)
Schiffe - Lill Tschudi (1951) linocut (image.invaluable.com)
Snap the Whip - Winslow Homer (1872) oil on canvas (www.milwaukeeindependent.com)
Painting WN by Zdzisław Beksiński (1984) (i.imgur.com)
Yumi - Harriet Bevan, coloured pencils 11x8 inches (cdn.shopify.com)
Connemara Cottages - Harry Epworth Allen, egg tempera (www.morganodriscoll.com)
The Feathered Hat - Robert Bevan (1915) oils (pt.wahooart.com)
The Bathing Hour - Joaquin Sorolla (1904) (sothebys-com.brightspotcdn.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....