The 1000++ Artworks created around 1950 and ...

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Salvador Dal's artwork Christ of Saint John of the Cross was completed in 1951. It represents Jesus Christ on the cross floating over a body of water with a boat and fisherman under a darkening sky. Although it depicts the crucifixion, it lacks nails, blood, and a crown of thorns because Dal was con...

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William H. Johnson returned to the United States in 1938 after living abroad in France and Scandinavia where he was initially trained in modernist visual language and later Northern folk art vernacular. Once he returned to America, Johnson immersed himself in African American traditions, creating wo...

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Born in 1865 in Rio de Janeiro, he began his artistic career as a student at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1880. Due to the rigor and quality of his work -- he won several prizes during his life -- Emperor Dom Pedro II himself paid for his studies in Paris, giving to the artist about $40 /

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Art of War: World War II Propaganda . “A Arte da Guerra – Propaganda da II Guerra Mundial”. The exhibition (Dec 18, 2010 - Sep 30, 2011) showcased propaganda produced during the world conflict, through examples that show that the war was fought not only in the battlefield, but also in the background...

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