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A Masterpiece of Naïve Art

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'Sleeping down.' Mother sitting with a sleeping child on her lap.

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In Boucher’s pastorals, the dirt and labor of peasant life were set aside in favor of the elegant clothing and idyllic romance popularized by theater pantomimes. Such playacted visions were the roots of Marie Antoinette’s adoption of simple dress and manners at her pleasure dairy, a type of faux-rus...

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Dali’s “Sleep” of 1937 deals with a Freudian theme of the world of dreams that has fascinated the Surrealists who believed that the freedom of the subconscious within sleep could be tapped into and then realized creatively in their art. This painting is an attempt to duplicate the dream world into c...

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Delvaux’s work combined classical perfection with an erotic and troubling atmosphere. The sensuousness of Sleeping Venus is set against its oppressive night-time setting. Delvaux later explained that it was painted in Brussels during the German wartime occupation and while the city was being bombed....

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Count Alexander von der Mark, an illegitimate son of Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia, died before he had reached maturity. His tombstone, of architectural dimensions, is layered vertically to create depth and tiered horizontally in a series of zones situated one above the other, all centering on the...

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