One artist/art historian's random take on the world's great paintings.
Monday, October 11, 2010
The Tonal Van Gogh
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Autumn Landscape with Four Trees , Vincent van Gogh, 1885 Earlier in his career, Vincent van Gogh experimented with the styles of his time, ...
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Saturday, October 9, 2010
weekend update
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Nostalgia for the Infinite , first in a new series of sky paintings.
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Friday, October 8, 2010
Spitzweg: The Poor Poet
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Carl Spitzweg, The Poor Poet , 1839 German chemist-turned-artist Carl Spitzweg loved living in high places. Moving into an apartment in Mu...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Orpheus: The Artist as Poet
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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld, 1861 At first glance, Corot's light-infused Orpheus Leading E...
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Sunday, October 3, 2010
G. F. Watts: Twilight of the Gods
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G. F. Watts, The Minotaur, 189 6 George Frederick Watts ( 1817 – 1904) painted The Minotaur late in his career. He was the son of a poor pi...
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Monday, September 27, 2010
Imagining Atlantis
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The Fall of Atlantis , by Monsu Desiderio, c. 1600s We continue today with more imaginative visions and obscure histories! Compared to artis...
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Friday, September 24, 2010
The Colossus of Rhodes: Visions of a Vanished Wonder
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The Colossus of Rhodes (1914) by the Spanish painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840-1924) . One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the...
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