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'Clouds in Finland.' (1908) Konrad Krzyżanowski, is one of the most outstanding representatives of Young Poland’s art (Arts and Crafts Movement) and was an artist of original, expressionist painting. This work was made when he was a professor at the Warsaw School of Fine Arts.
July 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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It was on his trips to Deauville that Gustave Courbet was introduced formally to seacapes by Eugène Boudin. The work he produced during the 1860s gave Courbet commercial success and an opportunity to explore the complexities of land, sea, and sky.
July 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Copying from the antique (ancient sculptures and classical works) was a core part of the curriculum for art students, particularly in the early years of their training. This watercolour and pencil work by James Hayllar depicting 'La Cantoria, Florence,' is from 1853.
July 22, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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This November, Tate Britain will present the first major exhibition to explore the lives of JMW Turner and John Constable. The show will feature over 170 paintings and works on paper including Constable's 'Cloud Study (with birds) from 1821. The exhibition closes April 2026.
July 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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'Portrait of Roy Gentry,' was made in 1949 when the sitter and Euan Uglow were both aged 18 and Uglow was studying under William Coldstream at the Slade; precise measurements are still visible in this work and can be seen as the scaffolding of his pictures.
July 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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'A Château in France.' (1914) In his lifetime Patrick William Adam was an influential painter; a founding member with John Lavery of the Society of Eight, a group which also included the Scottish colourist Francis Cadell who found Adam's interiors a great influence upon his own.
July 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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„Von allen politischen Ideen ist der Wunsch, die Menschen vollkommen und glücklich zu machen, vielleicht am gefährlichsten. Der Versuch, den Himmel auf Erden zu verwirklichen, produziert stets die Hölle.“
Am 23. Juli 1945 erscheint von Karl Popper das Buch „Die offene Gesellschaft und ihre Feinde“
July 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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„Das Leben ist bezaubernd, man muss es nur durch die richtige Brille sehen."
Alexandre Dumas wurde weltweit bekannt durch seine historischen Romanen: „Die drei Musketiere" (1834/44) , ,Der Graf von Monte Christo" (1845/46).
24. Juli 1802 -5. Dezember 1870
July 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Ambroise Vollard war Kunsthändler, Galerist, Verleger, der Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso und Henry Matisse förderte und Picassos (1901) sowie Matisses (1904) erste Pariser Einzelausstellung organisierte.
3. Juli 1865 - 22. Juli 1939
Bild, Paul Cézanne
July 22, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Mal wieder inspiriert von @luvundlee.bsky.social
#meermittwoch im Watt
#kleineKunstklasse
July 23, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Noch ein unnützer kackhaufen...
July 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 'On the line of fire' (1916)
July 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Meine Großmutter nennt die weidel 'die hirnlose dreckige stinkende braune nazi hure'... eine von vielen schönen Beschreibungen meiner geliebten Oma für den weidel kackhaufen ...klare Worte von einer weisen Dame ....braun ist kackfarbe...afd in die müllverbrennung
July 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Die große, wunderschöne Spiralgalaxie M101 ist einer der letzten Einträge in Charles Messiers berühmtem Katalog, aber gewiss keiner der unbedeutendsten. Mit ein Durchmesser von 170.000 Lichtjahren ist diese Galaxie riesig, fast doppelt so groß wie unsere eigene Milchstraße.
nasa
July 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1749

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

#museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
July 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Philipp Otto Runge (23. Juli 1777 - 2.
Dezember 1810 ) war neben Caspar David Friedrich der bedeutendste deutsche Maler der Frühromantik, der jung an Jahren an Tuberkulose starb. Ein Tag nach seinem Tod wurde sein viertes Kind geboren, das seinen Vornamen erhielt.
July 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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If a criminal, caught in the act, tried to destroy all the evidence to keep committing the crime—how would we react?
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July 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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#Photography Rala Choi
July 20, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."

Jacques-Yves Cousteau
July 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Noam Chomsky.
July 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Ferdinand Hodler, 'Maggia delta before sunrise' (1893)
July 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Zdzislaw Beksinski
July 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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AfD Wähler Logik
July 20, 2025 at 8:17 AM