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Djinga is a town situated in Kasai Oriental/Central Congo.
The portrait surely is done by a professional painter but strangely enough, nothing is known about Madeleine Lefebvre (1900 - 1967), except that she certainly wasn’t the only female artist working in the Congo.
#womensart
According to Alphonse Mucha's letter to his wife Maruška, he conceived the subject as "Virgo purissima", thus depicting the heavenly vision of the Madonna surrounded with a mass of lilies as a symbol of purity. 🏛 Mucha Museum, Prague 📘 https://t.co/T5PLCJOl0u
Emma was the daughter of the hotel owner and Anna Kirstine Ohlsen. She was introduced to flower painting by Johan Jensen but was self-taught in developing the art of painting flowers in their natural surroundings.
Emma Thomsen A bird's nest hidden between bindweed and roses 1858
💕🌊 “The picture is painted fifteen minutes after sunset—not one minute before,” wrote Homer about this work, which he considered to be among his best paintings.
🏛 @the_clark West Point, Prouts Neck by Winslow Homer 1900
📖 https://t.co/eXu17dHUir
ROY LICHTENSTEIN’s Homage to Vincent van Gogh'; The sower
🏛 @krollermuller
Poster: 'Homage to Vincent van Gogh'; The sower 1985-1990
ROY LICHTENSTEIN
💓🐈 In this domestic scene, a young woman sits in front of a lacquered needlework box, folding a length of resist-dyed fabric. 🏛 @metmuseum A Woman and a Cat by Kitagawa Utamaro found ca. 1793-94 📖 https://t.co/yWPRFu6a9v
Did you know that @VanArtGallery is home to the finest collection of art by Emily Carr (1871–1945) in the world?
https://t.co/Lwtq3auFmy
Emily Carr
Above the Gravel Pit, 1937 #womensart #nature
The identity of the figure in this painting is unknown. Her facial expression is difficult to read, but her heavily-lidded eyes and sloping shoulders suggest weariness with the world.
JEAN-BAPTISTE-CAMILLE COROT
YOUNG WOMAN IN A PINK SKIRT
C. 1845–50 @the_clark
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The Seidenbeutel brothers were Polish Jewish artists who were twins.
The twins had a unique way of working; one brother would start a painting and the other brother would finish it.
🏛 @Muzeum_Narodowe
Still-Life by Efraim (Menasze) Seidenbeutel (1903-1945)
Ca. 1930
The dominant theory is that the picture represents a classical love triangle, with a secret letter being passed between one of the men and the nude woman. Cupid is on the left.
📖 https://t.co/7q3ocNoVeO
Unfaithfulness by Paolo Veronese 1575