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The portrayal of mermaid-like hybrid water beings was highly popular in the art of symbolism. Themes such as Odysseus and the sirens, the neirads, Ophelia, and Melusina provided an opportunity to convey seductive female beauties who demonstrate the nakedness of the female body with open eroticism. M...

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We know of drawings where Rodin represented his own sculptures. In many cases they are drawings made to record works or in order to assist the printmakers who had to prepare catalog illustrations and not as studies. But the majorities are figure studies that serve the artist as practice in his way o...

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After serving in the U.S. Army in World War II, Kelly took advantage of the G.I. Bill to study in Paris, where he immersed himself in the work of prominent European abstract artists. As Blue Panel II suggests, he treated color and shape in his painting as synonymous and integral to each other, in ke...

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The Fisherman and the Siren is one of Frederic Leighton's most remarkable works. The painting depicts a fisherman in deep embrace with a mermaid. The fisherman's pale body presses relentlessly to the mermaid. The the physical contact raises a powerful impact. The Fisherman and the Mermaid has earne...

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This peony fan shows the blending of literati and popular tastes in the period. Literati artists traditionally disdained a gold ground as vulgar, but Hu uses it to set off his image of the luscious peony, a flower with associations of wealth and seductive beauty.

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Moa was a dancer and a friend of Schiele’s. She performed in cabarets with her dance partner Erwin Osen, a theater painter who also had close connections with Schiele. Both modeled repeatedly for Schiele between 1910 and 1911. In Schiele’s watercolor, Moa is completely enveloped in exotic and richly...

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The picture is based on a medieval text which describes a Roman fountain guarded by a statue of a nymph. Cranach, however, has changed the statue into a sensual creature, much more true to life than the idealised nudes of ancient Roman sculpture. The Latin inscription on the fountain reads: “I, the ...

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