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Artist: Vincent van Gogh

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Ike Taiga, one of the most prolific and influential artists of the Nanga, or literati school, in Kyoto, excelled in a calligraphic style called karayō, or Chinese-style writing. This screen displays Taiga’s mastery of the style in his inscription of the Chinese poem “Maple Bridge Night Mooring,” by ...

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“The folklore of my country seduced me,” Mérida declared, apropos of the ancient Maya and the continuing resonance of indigenous culture across his native Guatemala and in Mexico, his adopted home. “For art to be universal, it must first be local.”1 Mérida settled in Mexico City in 1929 after a two-...

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Colour and textureVan Gogh receives his first painting lessons from Anton Mauve, his cousin by marriage. The successful artist of the Hague School has him mainly practice colour and texture in Still life with straw hat: the stiff, frayed straw of the hat, the transparent and shiny glass of the bottl...

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A foundational figure of Mexican modernism, Mérida cultivated a distinctly American language of abstraction, informed by the indigenous traditions of the ancient Maya and the twentieth-century Cubist and Constructivist avant-gardes. A striking, linear geometry defines his work of the 1950s, in which...

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Throughout his career, Sisley was especially attracted by river scenes, often focusing on images of river traffic. This painting shows the confluence of the rivers Seine and Loing, southeast of Paris at the village of Saint-Mammès, where Sisley had moved in 1880. A range of boats is depicted, from t...

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In addition to breakfast and banquet pieces, quite a few vanitas still lifes have survived from Pieter Claesz’s early period.1 Most of them are simple compositions with a skull and bones, large yellowed books, an empty or overturned glass, a watch, a small oil lamp that has just been snuffed out, a ...

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Dali illustrates his passion for bullfighting in The Hallucinogenic Toreador, his wife Gala, however, did not. Her face is pictured in the top left corner of the piece, with a look of condemnation, illustrating her hatred for the practice. The statue of Venus de Milo is seen 28 times in the painting...

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When closed, the doors of the tabernacle display the Annunciation painted in monochrome and on the back a skull or memento mori, a reminder to the faithful of our common destiny. When open it reveals on the central panel the Virgin enthroned nursing the Child. On the left-hand panel, Saint Catherine...

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Introduction to the Artist and Art Movement

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