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Introduction to the Painting

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I was raised up in a place they called Young’s, the old Young plantation. My daddy’s father had been a slave named Irby but was sold to the Pettways, so my daddy was named Pettway, same as all the others owned by the Pettways. Daddy had lived down in the Bend. When he got grown he was free from the ...

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Long regarded one of the Rijksmuseum’s masterpieces, the Mary Magdalen shows the saint half-length, seated before a broad, luminous landscape. She sits on a narrow plateau which is defined on the right by a curving tree trunk with a broken stump near the base. The saint’s portrait-like appearance, w...

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'Clytie' was the second picture of that title painted by Leighton. The nymph Clytie falls in love with Apollo the sun god but is rejected by him. She takes up a position in a remote spot and remains there neither eating nor drinking and drawing her only nourishment from her tears. Day after day she ...

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Set in a landscape, a young man holding a broken lance lunges over the neck of his horse to look at the body of a forest-green dragon on the ground beneath them, while a young woman looks on from our left in this vertical painting. The man and woman both have light skin. The horse and rider are in t...

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In August, 1888 Vincent van Gogh began painting a series of works which, as Dr. Jan Hulsker suggests 'perhaps more than any other of his paintings, have made him known throughout the world. They are often the only works with which he is identified.'1 This series is, of course, the sunflowers. Van Go...

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Shown from the lap up, a woman with peach-colored skin sits leaning sideways against the back of a wooden chair with her head tilted to our left on her long neck in this vertical, stylized portrait. The painting is done mostly with areas of mottled color outlined in delicate black lines. The top of ...

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A laurel branch to the left and a palm branch to the right, both in muted green tones, curve toward each other, crossing near the top to frame a sprig of spiky juniper in this square painting. A scroll with the Latin words “VIRTVUTEM FORMA DECORAT” weaves around and across the circle made by the bra...

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Maria Oakey Dewing painted Rose Garden during one of her last summers in Cornish, New Hampshire, an artists’ colony where she and her family had spent every summer for 15 years. The cropped, close-up study of flowers, color, and texture places the viewer among the leaves, stems, and blossoms of her ...

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Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, famous under its colloquial name Whistler's Mother, is an 1871 oil-on-canvas painting by American-born painter James McNeill Whistler. The painting is 56.81 by 63.94 inches (144.3 cm × 162.4 cm), displayed in a frame of Whistler's own design in the Musée d'Orsay i...

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Discover the Controversial Masterpiece from Musée d'Orsay

Gustave Courbet, a renowned French painter, created 'L'Origine du monde' or 'The Origin of the World' in 1866. This provocative and erotic painting features an intimate close-up view of a naked woman's abdomen and genitals as she...

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My Alex: I’m not a pelada as you thought last night, because I didn’t say goodbye to you, because as much as I tried, I couldn’t get out at the signal. But I hope you will pardon me, no?If you want tomorrow Friday I can see you in the evening, at the little tree... to give ourselves up to love…I wil...

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Veeke is as jagged a painting as its spiky name suggests. From a base colour of murky green grey emerge what appear like flat knives or spears, layered on top of one another, and streaking across the canvas from right to left like a dirty neon chevron. They seem to cast softer dove-grey shadows as t...

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Perseus, a son of Zeus, is a figure of antique mythology whose heroics have been portrayed by numerous artists up into modern times; the most well-known episode is the liberation of Princess Andromeda. The wife of King Cepheus boasted of being prettier than the nymphs of the sea, thus offending Pose...

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On an elaborately decorated throne with legs resembling those of a lion, a couple are seated facing to the right. The man, in the foreground, holds a giant kantharos and stares directly at the viewer, his upper body turned. The woman, obscured in the background, is seen drawing a veil over her head ...

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January 8th, 1925. ThursdayAlex (insured property): I’ve been buten sad because you’re sick and I would have liked to have been at your side the whole time, but since that can’t be I just have to grin and bear it till you get better, which I hope will be very soon. These days in the mornings I’ve be...

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