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😮 The artist we present today was unknown to me. His name is Oscar Bluemner; he was a German-born American Modernist painter.
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Rosy Light by Oscar Bluemner 1927
In his seminal 1912 text, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Vasily Kandinsky advocated art that could move beyond imitation of the physical world, inspiring, as he put it, “vibrations in the soul.”📗 https://t.co/ECGqqVpE9F
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Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) 1913
🌙 Completed during his summers at the burgeoning artists' colony in picturesque Old Lyme, Connecticut, May Night is Willard Metcalf's homage to the creative ferment he experienced there and to its host, Florence Griswold.
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Willard Leroy Metcalf
May Night, 1906
Soon after her return to India, after completing her art studies in Paris in 1934, Amrita Sher-Gil set about capturing the poor Indian villagers in her paintings from 1935 onwards.
🏛 National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Mother India, Amrita Sher-Gil 1935
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Knud Baade (1808-1879) was a Norwegian painter, mostly of portraits and landscapes.
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Cloud Study, Knud Baade 1838
⏰ LAST CHANCE!
Only until Sunday, you can visit the exhibition ALFRED KUBIN
CONFESSIONS OF A TORTURED SOUL held at the @Leopold_Museum !
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A detail, Red angel, Karl Mediz 1902 Private collection,Vienna 📷 @krupinajustyna
⛵️ On this day in 1882 Edward Hopper, the American painter whose realistic depictions of everyday urban scenes shock the viewer into recognition of the strangeness of familiar surroundings, was born.
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Ground Swell, Edward Hopper 1939
🧡 Schiele was famous for how he pushed the boundaries of acceptability. In Lovemaking this couple may still be clothed, but are apparently in the midst of intercourse, implying that their lovemaking is more spur-of-the-moment, possibly even illicit.
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💙 Blue Irises is executed not only as a painting but as a snapshot of time and place.
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Gustave Caillebotte, Blue Irises, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1892
🌝 In August of 1913, Oskar Kokoschka and Alma Mahler took a trip through the Dolomites. In her memoirs, Alma stated that while there, the life of the two “prioritized only his work”
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Tre Croci - Dolomite Landscape
Oskar Kokoschka 1913