Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Barn Dance [c.1568]
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View ArticleAntonio de Pereda - Allegory of Transience [c.1634]
A winged angel embodies this vanitas, the memory of the transience of everything earthly. In front of the angel, objects are arranged in baroque abundance in a still-life manner, which point to the...
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View ArticleAllen Jones - Stepping Out [1994]
Allen Jones (born Southampton, September 1, 1937)is a British pop artist best known for his paintings, sculptures, and lithography. He was awarded the Prix des Jeunes Artistes at the 1963 Paris...
View ArticleFrank Stella - Grey Scramble IX (Single) [1968-69]
“The Concentric Squares created a pretty high, pretty tough pictorial standard. Their simple, rather humbling effect – almost a numbing power – became a sort of ‘control’ against which my increasing...
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View ArticleIvan Kliun - Spherical Suprematism [c.1920-24]
Kliun (1873 - 1943) was a leading light of the Russian avant-garde, friend of Malevich and pioneer of non-objective art. This artist who started out closely allied to the orbit of Malevich’s...
View ArticleBoris Dmitrievich Girgoriev - Children [1923]
Portraiture was one of Boris Dmitrievich Girgoriev’s great strengths. He started to work in the genre while still in Russia, at first painting his family, wife and son, and friends, the bohemian set of...
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View ArticleJohn William Waterhouse - The Danaides [1903]
In Greek mythology, the Danaides were the fifty daughters of King Danaus of Argos, who were all married on a single occasion to fifty suitors, the fifty sons of Danaus's twin brother Aegyptus, king of...
View ArticleJohn William Waterhouse - Thisbe or The Listener [1909]
O wall, full often hast thou heard my moans,For parting my fair Pyramus and me!My cherry lips have often kiss’d thy stones,Thy stones with lime and hair knit up in thee.[Christie’s, New York - Oil on...
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View ArticleLouis Marie de Schryver - Flower Market on the Île de la Cité, Paris
Here, de Schryver takes as his subject two chic young women carefully selecting blossoms from an open-air flower market in an elegant square. The profusion of different flowers on offer is complimented...
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View ArticleRobert Williams - The Whoopee Hat [2003]
Robert L. Williams (born Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 2, 1943) often styled Robt. Williams, is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine. Williams was one of...
View ArticleAlex Katz - Blue Umbrella [1972]
Calm and composed amidst slanting drops of rain, Ada Katz is here pictured close-up, her titular umbrella cropped at the margins of the canvas. She is as much the subject of the painting as her...
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View ArticlePaul Cadmus - Sleeping Nude [1967]
"My personal sentimental favourite is my small Sleeping Nude. This tiny picture was begun, from one of my drawings, as a demonstration, to a young hopeful, of the technique of egg tempera painting...I...
View ArticleJean Bernard Restout - Sleep [c.1771]
The tradition of painting nude male figures in a studio setting was the cornerstone of artistic practice, teaching artists to depict the human body in complex poses in order to create larger...
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