Tag Archives: Art

1628: Still Life with Books and a Violin

Posted on September 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Jan Davidszoon de Heem: Still Life with Books and a Violin (1628)

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1994: Selected Works

Posted on September 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

cho Kcho: Obras Escogidas (Selected Works) (1994) (source)

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1857: Niagara

Posted on September 24, 2017 by corvusfugit

Frederic Edwin Church: Niagara (1857)

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1941: Degenerate Art

Posted on September 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Emil Nolde: Meer bei Abenddämmerung [Sea at Dusk] An anti-Semite who believed in the cultural superiority of “Germanic” art and supported the Nazi Party beginning in the 1920’s, Emil Nolde was surprised when his own paintings were targeted in the … Continue reading →

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1937: Forest

Posted on September 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

Emily Carr: Forest Interior in Shafts of Light (c. 1935-1937)

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1909: The Forest

Posted on September 23, 2017 by corvusfugit

One of Frederick Cayley Robinson’s set designs for The Blue Bird, Maurice Maeterlinck’s “Fairy Play” about Tyltyl and Mytyl, the children of a poor woodcutter, who are sent out by the Fairy Bérylune to search for the Blue Bird of … Continue reading →