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#FridayPainting: Claude Monet “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny”
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything,my head is bursting with it.” Claude Monet Claude Monet ‘The Artist’s Garden...
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#FridayPainting: Umberto Boccioni “Three Women”
“We must now learn to draw inspiration from the tangible miracles that surround us.” Umberto Boccioni Umberto Boccioni “Three Women” 1909 – 1910 Public Domain As I look deep within this pastel...
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#FridayPainting: Thomas Faed “Sir Walter Scott and his friends at Abbotsford”
When I view the painting, “Sir Walter Scott and His Friends at Abbotsford” by Thomas Faed, I try to imagine the discussion. It seems that Sir Walter Scott is reading from one of his novels to a group...
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#FridayPainting: Edward Burne-Jones “Portrait of Margaret Burne-Jones”...
“The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.” Edward Burne-Jones Margaret, daughter of Edward Coley...
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Judith Leyster at the Rijksmuseum
Judith Leyster Dutch Golden Age painter (1609-1660) ChasingART has been involved in virtual travel these past months as museums and art galleries have opened their doors and outreach to global...
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#FridayPainting: Amedeo Modigliani “Alice”
“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.” Amedeo Modigliani Amedeo Modigliani “Alice” I have often wondered...
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#FridayPainting: Giuseppe Arcimboldo “Portrait of a Librarian” 1566
The first time I viewed a painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, I was certain that the date on the painting was incorrect. Surely, this was not a painter that lived in the 1500’s. And yet, Giuseppe...
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Emily Mary Osborn – Nameless and Friendless
“The rich man’s wealth is his strong city: the destruction of the poor is their poverty.” Proverbs 10:15 ‘Nameless and Friendless’ (1857) by Emily Mary Osborn Emily Mary Osborn added this Biblical...
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#FridayPainting Théo van Rysselberghe “La dame en blanc”
Portrait of Mrs. Théo van Rysselberghe Théo van Rysselberghe was a major player in the European art scene at the turn of the twentieth century. On October 28, 1883, he co-founded the Belgian artistic...
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#Friday Painting: Émile Joachim Constant Puyo “The Straw Hat”
The Straw Hat Émile Joachim Constant Puyo “The Straw Hat” Oil Pigment Print, Cincinnati Art Museum Today’s painting is a photograph by the French photographer, Émile Joachim Constant Puyo, who lived...
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#FridayPainting: Henri J.F. Rousseau “The Equatorial Jungle”
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau was a French post-impressionist painter who was subjected to ridicule by critics during his lifetime. And yet, he became known as a self-taught genius who had enormous...
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L’Atelier Rouge at the MoMA
A few months ago, when I was lamenting that travel had been curtailed, my husband Don reminded me that if I stand still, the world would come to me. The world has indeed come to me. Through the...
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#FridayPainting: Vjekoslav Karas “Young Woman with a Mandolin”
The painting of a young woman playing a mandolin resonated. The rich colours of her clothing, set against the light green to dark green background added drama to the portrait. The woman’s faraway gaze...
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#FridayPainting: Vincent Van Gogh “Olive Grove”
Vincent Van Gogh sought peace in an asylum in the Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Olive Grove by Vincent van Gogh (Vincent van Gogh, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons) He lived there between May 1889...
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#FridayPainting: John Melhuish Strudwick, “In the Golden Days”
How sad it were for Arthur, should he live,To sit once more within the lonely hall,And miss to hear high talk of noble deedsAs in the golden days before thy sin.’TENNYSON, IDYLLS OF THE KING. John...
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GLAM & The Lost-Wax Casting Process
Significant portions of the data and images belong to the public “for the benefit of all the people, forever” in line with the CMA’s mission to create transformative experiences through art.Cleveland...
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#FridayPainting: Home and the Homeless by Thomas Faed
Home and the Homeless by Thomas Faed National Galleries Scotland Thomas Faed and his brothers, John and James, made a substantial contribution to Scottish painting through their scenes from Scottish...
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#FridayPainting: Thomas Cooper Gotch “The Child Enthroned”
Thomas Cooper Gotch aka T.C. Gotch, English painter and book illustrator, was linked to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The romantic style of the Pre-Raphaelites is clearly portrayed in Thomas Gotch’s...
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#Friday Painting: Joseph Mallory William Turner, “The Grand Canal – Venice”
“It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.” J.M.W. Turner Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Saluteca. 1835 Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute ca. 1835 (Public...
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#FridayPainting: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins”
“The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” Henri Toulouse-Lautrec Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec “In the Salon of the Rue des Moulins” 1894 (Public domain, via Wikimedia...
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