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Rose Van Lear
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Dining Room on the Garden, 1934-35
Pierre Bonnard
Oil on canvas
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Bonnard painted domestic genre scenes for most of his life. This vibrant interior depicts the dining room in the villa the artist rented for the summer of 1934; yet, the painting feels evocative of an earlier time. In the late nineteenth century Bonnard belonged to the Nabis (Hebrew, "prophets"), a group that painted mystical or occult scenes in order to invoke extraordinary psychic states. The colored areas within the flattened picture plane in Dining Room on the Garden lose their relation to the objects depicted: a chair melds into the window frame; the window echoes the painting's borders, becoming a view within a view; and Marthe, the painter's oft-depicted wife, is a spectral presence who merges with her surroundings. #art #painting
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Road to Marly, ca. 1870
Camille Pissarro
Oil on canvas
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Camille Pissarro painted this tranquil scene soon after joining his friends and fellow Impressionists Monet, Renoir, and Sisley in the countryside northwest of Paris, where they had recently set-tled. As a group, the artists combined inspiration from past generations with their own innovative ideas to create a style characterized by bold, broken brushwork and shimmering color. With unprecedented freshness, Pissarro captured the atmosphere of a lazy, rural afternoon. The trees' leafless branches suggest winter or early spring. #art #painting
December 17, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Woman Before a Plaster Relief, ca.
1900-1904
Édouard Vuillard
Oil on canvas
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The setting of this puzzling scene may represent the artist's studio, lined as it is with books and adorned with plaster casts of sculptures. The woman-who may or may not be the subject of the painting—could be a model, patron, or visiting friend. Her figure is truncated below the shoulders, as if she herself were a portrait bust, so one can only surmise why she is there and what she may be doing. #art #painting
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908
Claude Monet
Oil on canvas
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The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore, 1908 Claude Monet Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Portrait of Bruno Chérier, ca. 1875
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Oil on canvas
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Portrait of Bruno Chérier, ca. 1875 Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 17, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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December 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Landscape (Fervaques), 1884
Eugène Louis Boudin
Oil on canvas
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On visits with friends in the village of Fervaques in Normandy, Eugène Boudin painted views of the surrounding countryside. This vista of Fervques's verdant fields and pastures is a rare example of Boudin's mastery of an Impressionist landscape as it captures the special atmosphere and light of a particular moment. The composition is a departure from the artist's more numerous beach scenes and port views. #art #painting
December 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Marilyn, 1967
Andy Warhol
Screenprint
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Marilyn, 1967 Andy Warhol Screenprint #art
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Madame Manet (Suzanne Leenhoff, 1829-1906) at Bellevue, 1880
Edouard Manet
Oil on canvas
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Despite the seemingly rapid brushwork and the summary treatment of detail, this painting was preceded by at least two drawings and an oil sketch. This is Manet's last portrait of his wife; it was painted at Bellevue, a suburb of Paris, where they spent the summer of 1880. #ArtSky
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Astronaut and Witnesses, Televised, 1971
Raquel Forner
Oil on canvas
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Since the late 1950s, when Raquel Forner traveled to the United States, she became fascinated by the Moon exploration projects led by NASA and the Soviet Space Program. This painting was made during the Apollo missions that landed on the Moon, and at the time of the tragic death of the Soyuz 11 crew, who died while returning from the orbiting Soviet space station Salyut. Forner explores these cosmic dramas as they play out on our television sets adopting a neofigurative style that fluidly combines forms and colors into an imaginary world. Shaped both by science and human anxieties, Forner's spacecraft becomes a mythical creature—part lion, part computer—that carries astronauts and fellow travelers into an unknown future in outer space. The artist visited the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston in 1974. #art #painting
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron (Portraits de M. E. P....et de Mlle L. L.P.)
1880
John Singer Sargent
Oil on canvas
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This remarkable portrait of siblings Edouard (1865-1947) and Marie-Louise (1870-1951) Pailleron is the final and most psychologically intense of the three portraits that Sargent painted of the family. According to Marie-Louise, who was eleven years old at the time, its creation involved a staggering-and possibly apocryphal-eighty-three sittings during which the artist and the headstrong girl battled over her attire and pose. Marie-Louise seems to be the focal point of the picture. Her probing gaze, gripped right fist, and erect posture capture her indomitable personality. The painting was generally admired at the Paris Salon of 1881 even though Sargent created a view of childhood that is unusually tense and serious, in contrast to the sentimental conventions popular among his contemporaries. #art #painting
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The Spanish Dance, ca.1879-82
John Singer Sargent
Oil on canvas
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A talented musician, Sargent was enchanted with Spanish music, collecting sheet music and sketching performers during his visits to Spain. He hosted recitals of Spanish works for friends on multiple occasions. His travels would inspire a monumental painting of flamenco dancers in a tavern, El Jaleo (1882, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum). The Spanish Dance was inspired by events he attended in Spain, although he seems to have invented or embellished the dancers' poses for dramatic effect. Nevertheless, Sargent suggests the sensory experience of the performance: the expressive gestures of the dancers indicate the electrifying rhythm of music in the darkness. #art #painting
December 12, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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It Made Sense... Mostly in Her Mind, 2011
Amy Sherald
Oil on canvas
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It Made Sense... Mostly in Her Mind, 2011 Amy Sherald Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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American Totem, 1960
Norman Lewis
Oil on canvas
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American Totem is one of a series of black-and-white paintings that Norman Lewis made exploring the emotional and psychic impact of the civil rights movement. Lewis, one of the few Black artists associated with Abstract Expressionism, created a multivalent abstract form that evokes apparitions, skulls, masks, and the infamous hooded Klansman. As a "totem" or symbol of America, Lewis's work suggests that the nation's history of terror is both representable and abstract, conscious and unconscious, visible and hidden. #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Portrait of Count Vittorio Alfieri, 1794
François-Xavier Fabre
Oil on canvas
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Portrait of Count Vittorio Alfieri, 1794 François-Xavier Fabre Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Untitled, 1956
Clyfford Still
Oil on canvas
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Untitled, 1956 Clyfford Still Oil on canvas #art #oainting
December 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch), 1875
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted this canvas during the summer of 1875 in Chatou, west of Paris on the Seine River. The setting is the terrace of a restaurant on an island in the Seine, a popular meeting place for recreational rowers. Renoir was friendly with the proprietors of the restaurant, the Fournaise family. Only one of the party of three having lunch in this painting has been identified: the young man in a white jacket at left is Monsieur de Lauradour, a habitué of the restaurant and the nearby bathing resort of La Grenouillère. #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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A Caravan, 1768
Jean-Baptiste Huet
Oil on canvas
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This picture, exhibited in the 1769 Salon of the French Academy, shows a family resting in the midst of a procession of animals and herdsmen. Jean-Baptiste Huet had only just been received as a member of the Academy in the category of animal painter. In this and other works exhibited in the Salon in 1769, Huet exploited his ability to paint animals and birds in a lively manner while also moving into the more prestigious realm of figure painting. Here, he focused on the broad sweep of landscape and the graceful poses of the main figures, reminiscent of the Holy Family during the flight into Egypt. #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Spring, 1923-24
Georgia O’Keeffe
Oil on canvas
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In Spring, Georgia O'Keeffe painted the small building that housed her husband Alfred Stieglitz's darkroom in Lake George, New York. The couple often treated the same subjects in their art, and Stieglitz photographed this building the same year, choosing a snowy day. Here, O Keeffe selected a springtime view, employing lush pastel colors for the abundant flowering trees. She also made changes that emphasize her artistic choices as a painter: she simplified the architecture by omitting the house's chimney, window, and horizontal siding; and she enlarged and curved the flagpole, accentuating the picture's vertical format. #art #painting
December 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The House with the Cracked Walls, 1892-94
Paul Cézanne
Oil on canvas
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The House with the Cracked Walls, 1892-94 Paul Cézanne Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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The Adoration of the Magi, circa 1730
Anton Kern
Oil on canvas
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The Adoration of the Magi, circa 1730 Anton Kern Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Woman in Brown, circa 1912
Manierre Dawson
Oil on canvas
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Woman in Brown, circa 1912 Manierre Dawson Oil on canvas #art #painting
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928
Charles Demuth
Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard
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I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, 1928 Charles Demuth Oil, graphite, ink, and gold leaf on paperboard #art #painting
December 8, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Julius Caesar, 1512-14
Andrea Ferrucci
Marble
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Andrea di Pietro di Marco Ferrucci, born in Fiesole, was active in both Florence and Naples. This bust is based on an ancient type of Julius Caesar represented by a marble in Florence, Palazzo Pitti. #art #sculpture
December 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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The Fourteenth of July, 1901
Pablo Picasso
Oil on cardboard
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The Fourteenth of July, 1901 Pablo Picasso Oil on cardboard #art #painting
December 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM