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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...

Liotard has depicted François Tronchin, a patron of the arts. He examines Rembrandt’s “Lady in Bed”. Items on the desk show his other pursuits - architecture and music. The pastel work in this piece is very precise, especially the wig!

I really enjoy the contrast in this piece between the precise Mary and the realistic texture of her clothes and the cherubs looking like jelly babies, along with some odd looking kids. I honestly can’t think why they made choices they did.

Dazzle camouflage is a type of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards....

Essentially French, though of Celtic Brittonic or Breton heritage as these people exist in Brittany, France, Alfred Guillou had his painting debut in 1868. About this time, Guillou and other painters formed the Concarneau Art Colony near Pont-Aven, France, attracting painters such as Charles Cottet and Paul Gauguin. A prime...

‘…My fiber wall hangings are inspired by microscopic/cellular imagery. All changes in essence happen on that infinitesimal level and result in the world we experience. My work is a kind of invented biology zooming in on that fundamental nature of things and bringing it into vision....

Painting on natural linen using inks, tea, graphite charcoal, fluorescent acrylic paint and gold ink....