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Can't tell your Rococo from your Renaissance? Why not join me at in January for 'A Crash Course in Art History', a fun and informal guide for those new to and keen to delve a little deeper - https://t.co/Hlq89vJvTz

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2019-12-28

1901
Dorothy Dehner was in
"In our world of unprecedented & supreme scientific we are bound to create that anticipates this as well as reacts to it."

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2019-12-23

Wishing you and yours a happy holiday and wonderful New Year! Please note that department offices will close Dec. 23 and reopen Jan. 2. ❄️

Image: Currier & Ives, "Winter Central Park," 1877-94, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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2019-12-23

Flipping the bird walk cycle Earthise DOS

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2019-12-22

This illustrator inspired George Lucas and the look of

There’s Tatooine in the painting, “Arizona”.

Naboo in “Romance”.

And, Cloud City in “Dinky Bird”.

Here’s our Instagram post on Maxfield Parrish: https://t.co/bfRGxC3Tv4

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2019-12-19



Italian Old Masters

Caravaggio “Fuga in Egitto” 1597

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2019-12-15

The prodigious, confident, expansive, ambitious and dazzling Veronese. Rival of Titian and Tintoretto.

'We painters use the same license as poets and madmen.'

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2019-12-11

Clara Siewert was born in 1862. Much of her art was destroyed by a bombing raid during WWII and she has remained mostly forgotten ever since.

The Apotheosis of a Witch
Death and the Maiden
Spring Fantasy
Fashion Goddess

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2019-12-10

Contemplating the multitude of elements to this image by Kandinsky, not least the use of yellow 💛

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2019-12-08

1941
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil dies suddenly of causes at age 28 in Given the cultural impact of her relatively small oeuvre, she might have been among the most prominent of the century.

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2019-12-06

Metropolis (1916-1917) by George Grosz shows hell on earth. It is an apocalyptic vision of how cities and humans are destructing themselves.

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2019-12-06

Can you win the staring contest?

Portrait of Countess Mathieu de Noailles (1913) by Ignacio Zuloaga shows the brightly dressed countess staring at us provocatively.

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2019-12-03