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2004: Diane Abbott MP
Stuart Pearson Wright: Diane Abbott MP (2004); in 1987, Diane Abbott became the first black woman elected to the British Parliament. See a video of her talking about this portrait here.
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Art, Civil Rights, Diane Abbott, Great Britain, Painting, Portraits, Stuart Pearson Wright, Women
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2001: Crying Landscape
Yang Jiechang: Crying Landscape: Three Gorges Dam (2002)
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Tagged 2000's, 21st Century, Art, China, Landscapes, Painting, Water, Yang Jiechang
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1649: Descartes’s Wooden Daughter
When Descartes resided in Holland, with great labour and industry he made a female Automaton—which occasioned some wicked wits to publish that he had an illegitimate daughter, named Franchine—to prove demonstratively that beasts have no souls, and that they are … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 18th Century, Automata, Children, Fathers, France, Julien La Mettrie, Miniatures, Netherlands, Philosophy, René Descartes
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1935: Waves
Constantin Westchiloff: Rolling Waves. The painting is undated; Westchiloff immigrated to the United States in 1935 and lived in New York City
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Constantin Westchiloff, Painting, Russia, Seascapes, USA
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2014: Interwoven with Others
In a 2014 study, Tanya Luhrmann found that when people hear voices in their heads, the personae and tone of those voices are shaped by culture; in the United States, the voices are threatening and severe, but in Africa and … Continue reading
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Tagged Africa, Art, Ataa Oko, Culture, Drawing, Ghana, India, Mental Health, Religion, Science, Tanya Luhrmann
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1880: Ironworkers
Thomas Anshutz: The Ironworkers’ Noontime (1880)
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Art, Labor, Painting, Thomas Anshutz, USA
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1913: Sunset
Félix Vallotton: Sunset (1913)
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Tagged Art, Félix Vallotton, France, Painting, Seascapes, Switzerland, The Sun
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1830: The Boy After this Excited Much Wonder
From John Fanning Watson’s Annals of Philadelphia, being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, from the days of the Pilgrim founders (1830): The good people of Caledonia [Scotland] have so long and exclusively … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Art, John Fanning Watson, Oddities, Painting, Peter Vanderlyn, Portraits, USA
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1942: Convoy
Norman Wilkinson: The “Ohio” in the Malta Convoy (1942)
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Tagged 1940's, 20th Century, Art, Great Britain, Norman Wilkinson, Painting, Ships & Sailing, WWII
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1996: How Buffalo Vote
Dutch ecologist H. H. T. Prins describes how he first came to realize that buffalo vote to determine which direction the herd should move to find grazing land: Let me first describe what takes place when a buffalo herd in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Buffalo, Clive Meredith, Democracy, H. H. T. Prins, Mammals, Netherlands, Poltical Science, Tanzania
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