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"Don Quihote" is a painting by Portuguese artist Amadeo de Souza Cardoso, who has an aggressive and vivid style both in form and colour and became one of the first modern Portuguese painters.
#arthistory #20thcentury #kubism #portugueseart #DonQuixote
"The Swing" is a painting by French artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard and one of the masterpieces of the Rococo era. It depicts a young woman on a swing and a smiling young man watches her from a vantage point that allows him to see up into her dress.
#arthistory #18thcentury #Rococo
"G.A.W. Lab, North Pole II" is a painting by Canadian artist Michael Markowsky, who makes drawings and paintings while travelling around the world and was the first person to make a painting while standing at the North Pole.
#arthistory #NorthPole #pleinair #ContemporaryArt
"The Red Tractor" is a painting by French artist Maurice de Vlaminck, who was heavily influenced by Van Gogh and Cézanne and thematized in his later works the destruction of nature by humans and technology.
#dailydoseofart #20thcentury #PostImpressionismus #frenchart
"Lighthouse at Sunset" is a painting by American artist Francis A. Silva, a representative of American Luminism. He specialized in marine painting and made several trips along the Hudson River to find motifs for his art.
#dailydoseofart #19thcentury #americanart #luminism #sunset
"Aurora Triumphans" is a painting by English artist Evelyn De Morgan, featuring the Roman goddess of dawn Aurora, covered with draped ropes of pink roses, that breaks the shackles of Night, who swirls away a black cloak.
#dailydoseofart #PreRaphaelite #19thcentury #womensart
"Song of the Pick" is a painting by artist Gerard Sekoto, who draws his inspiration mainly from his every day life and was the first black South African painter with international success.
#dailydoseofart #20thcentury #realism
"The Bride of the Wind" is a painting by Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka, who died on this day in 1980. The allegorical painting depicts his lover Alma Mahler in a peaceful sleep beside Kokoschka, who is awake and stares into space.
#OTD #arthistory #20thcentury #Austria
"The Portrait Painter" by the German artist Carl Spitzweg shows a painter standing proudly in front of his picture on the easel, while his model in Spanish costume sits on a pedestal. From the window sill a small bird looks into the studio.
#arthistory #19thcentury #romanticism