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Renoir loved to paint his family. His favorite model was his youngest son Claude, who is about four years old in this portrait, practicing on the easel.

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2019-07-06

In 1914, this artist created one of the most recognizable illustrations in history.

30 years later, he revised it for WWII—using his own aging face as the model for Uncle Sam.

Here is our post on J.M. Flagg.
https://t.co/JBsbBpuodA

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2019-07-04

Kandinsky started his career as a lawyer. But after seeing a painting of Monet, he decided to become an artist. Squares with Concentric Circles, 1913 shows the relationships between different colors. Simple but powerful!

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2019-07-04

1881
Natalia Goncharova was in Russia.
"We have learned much from Western artists, but where do they draw their inspiration if not from the East?"

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2019-07-03

"Charon crossing the Styx" is a painting by Flemish artist Joachim Patinir and depicts the ferryman Charon with a soul in the middle of the river. To the left is the Christian heaven with angels, on the right the dog Cerberus waits in Hades.

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2019-07-01

“Sento il tempo che dentro mi scorre,
un attimo di vita
che s’accende e si spegne
campi fioriti dai gigli del mare
e dai tristi asfodeli della morte.”

-Eugenio Scalfari-
(L’Ora del blu-2019)

-Alphonse Mucha-
(Madonna dei gigli-1905)

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2019-07-01

In 1974, this artist came out to his family as gay.

His daughter would later say that “Frog and Toad” were “the beginning of him coming out”.

This is our post on the great Arnold Lobel. https://t.co/yHStXVEKFI

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2019-06-30

“Al ritmo di una melodia sconosciuta. / Una bolla di larve di zanzara / sull’acqua verde”.
Qiu Xiaolong (1953)

👋🏻👋🏻 https://t.co/trZBSnwtUp

“Green Lines” (2016)
DZhang Enli (1965) cinese, che vive e lavora a Shanghai

Tate Modern, Shanghai

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2019-06-27

[重大発表]
11曲入りフルアルバム
「A Circle of Elements」を2019年7月にSpotify、Apple Music、iTunesやBandcampにてデジタルリリースします！

Artwork by from Earthists.

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2019-06-15

Woman Combing Her Hair, 1864, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ https://t.co/oI0UQLOEIa

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2019-06-15

Composition VI - 1913
Vasili Kandinsky (1866 – 1944)
Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum


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2019-06-15

Sibyls (c1501)

by Bernardino Pinturicchio
(c1454-1513Italian)

Fresco Cappella Baglioni -
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore - Spello - Italy 🇮🇹

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2019-06-14

"Red Rocks Near Pont Aven" is a painting by Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, who spent much of his later career in Paris. He was a friend of Paul Gauguin and his work with contrasting colours is also influenced by Vincent Van Gogh.

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2019-06-09

The Little Mermaid illustration by in a 1914 book of (reprinted in By a Woman’s Hand: Illustrators of the Golden Age).

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2019-06-08

My daughters inspired me to make some stickers...

https://t.co/mYtMKHuRo9

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2019-06-07

After waiting a year to hear back from a publisher on her new folktale, Julia Donaldson sent it to this artist.

He submitted it to Macmillan. A week later, they had a book deal for, “The Gruffalo”.

This is our post on Axel Scheffler. https://t.co/voBeasgZ2M

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2019-06-05