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1. Thomas Cole and Titans Goblet
December 23, 2011
American painter Thomas Cole is best known for his detailed depictions of the American countryside, depicted in accordance with the tenets of Romanticism and Naturalism. As a founder of the Hudson River School, Cole was instrumental in this development and depiction of the American landscape. Howeve...
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2. Gustav Klimt and the Danae
December 23, 2011
When watching the 2010 Hollywood movie "Clash of the Titans", masterworks in the world of art are not the first thing that comes to mind, at least not the visual arts. Yet the story has its roots in a story that has inspired artists for centuries. The story about the daughter of the king of Argos an...
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3. Did Da Vinci Leave a Hidden Message in the Mona Lisa?
December 23, 2011
The world famous painting "Mona Lisa" once again find itself at the center of a Da Vinci mystery, though this time the mystery is in the world of fact rather than fiction. By studying the painting up close through very powerful magnifying glasses, Italian scientists have thus discovered that the dar...
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4. The Vagabond Prince
December 09, 2011
It was into this artistic inferno that Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani arrived in 1906. It was also here that he was to transform himself and come to personify the character of the derelict artist, a prince of vagabonds, leading a life full of vice and establishing an artistic legend second only t...
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5. Metropolitan Art in Motion
December 09, 2011
For the art enthusiast, the destination for a holiday can rather be determined by what there is to see at the destination. As most of the accessible art these days can be found indoors in museums, the question becomes what museums the particular destination has to offer. Especially the major metropo...
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6. Starry Night by Van Gogh
December 09, 2011
In Don McLean's 1971 song "Vincent", which in its whole is dedicated to the works and life of Van Gogh, he opens with the now almost universally recognized "Starry Starry Night". It is of course a testament to the importance and recognition of this particular work that Don McLean chooses to begin hi...
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7. Rembrandt and the Night Watch
December 05, 2010
When looking at the images of Modern Art, it can sometimes seem elusive that there was once a time when the highest attainment in art was the accurate depiction of the subject. This was of course in a time before the invention of photography, when such depictions could only come abut at the hands of...
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8. A Lady Named Maja
December 05, 2010
The story of the two paintings of the lady Maja for the prime minister Duke Manual de Godoy. The paintings La Maja Desnuda and La Maja Vestida showed the subject in the same pose but for one difference.
A playboy prime minister gets two paintings of his mistress made - one where she is nude ...
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9. Frida Kahlo The Lioness of Mexico
December 05, 2010
Frida Kahlo was Born in Coyoacan in 1907, Kahlo is known for the intensity of her work, her vibrant use of color and somewhat for her self portraits. As such, the initial description sounds eerily similar to Vincent Van Gogh but the similarities end there.
When looking over the masters of th...
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10. Of Depth in Art
November 16, 2010
Henry Ward Beecher once commented that "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures." Beecher undoubtedly has a point with this observation. One only has to look at the later works of Van Gogh and how the nature of his paintings changes as his own mood an...
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Author: Catherine Garney
