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Tag Archives: Painting
1890: Three for Five
John George Brown: Three for Five (1890)
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Tagged 1890's, 19th Century, Art, Children, Flowers, John George Brown, Labor, Painting, USA
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1915: Sunset
Tom Thomson: Sunset (1915)
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Art, Canada, Painting, The Sky, The Sun, Tom Thomson
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1925: The Sleeping Factory
Daniel Vázquez Díaz: La fábrica bajo la niebla [The Factory in the Mist] (c. 1920) La fábrica dormida [The Sleeping Factory] (1925) In February 1919, after eight workers were fired for political reasons from a hydroelectric plant in Barcelona, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 1920's, 20th Century, Anarchism, Art, Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Factories, Labor, Painting, Spain, Strikes, Unions
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1981: The Innocent Eye
Mark Tansey: The Innocent Eye Test (1981) The title of this painting is taken from a book by the artist John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing (1857), where, in a footnote, Ruskin says that to see as an artist requires … Continue reading
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Tagged 17th Century, 1890's, 1980's, 19th Century, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Books, Claude Monet, Colors, Cows, Drawing, France, Great Britain, John Ruskin, Landscapes, Mark Tansey, Netherlands, Painting, Paulus Potter, USA
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1932: Summer in Saint-Michel
Pierre Roy: L’été de la Saint-Michel (Nature morte) [Summer in Saint-Michel (still life)] (1932)
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Tagged 1930's, 20th Century, Art, Castles, Food and Drink, France, Miniatures, Painting, Pierre Roy, Trompe l'œil
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1903: Endymion
George Frederic Watts: Endymion (1903) When the moon goddess Selene falls in love with Endymion, a shepherd-prince of surpassing beauty, Zeus grants his wish to sleep forever, ageless and immortal. He sleeps in a cave on Mount Latmus, where Selene … Continue reading
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1940: The White Horse
Eric Ravilious: Train Landscape (1940) The background of this painting features the Westbury White Horse, a figure on the slope of Salisbury Plain in England. As the earliest documentation dates from 1742, the horse was likely created in the first … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Century, 1940's, 20th Century, Animals, Art, Eric Ravilious, Geoglyphs, Great Britain, Horses, Landscapes, Painting, Trains
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1862: Traveling Companions
Augustus Leopold Egg: The Travelling Companions (1862) The city in the background of this painting is Menton, on the Côte d’Azur, which had become a popular destination for sufferers of tuberculosis following the 1861 publication of Dr. James Henry Bennet’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1860's, 1870's, 19th Century, Alice, Art, Augustus Leopold Egg, Books, France, Great Britain, Illustration, James Henry Bennet, John Tenniel, Lewis Carroll, Medicine, Painting, Trains, Tuberculosis, Women
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1874: The Wreckers
William Holbrook Beard: The Wreckers (1874)
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Tagged 1870's, 19th Century, Animals, Art, Birds, Crows, Painting, USA, William Holbrook Beard
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1489: Versions
Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine [Cecilia Galleran] (1489–1490) Awol Erizku: Lady with a Pitbull (2009) Hans Holbein: Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling [probably Anne Lovell] (c. 1526-28) Frida Khalo: Self-Portrait with … Continue reading
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