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💐#FridayFlowers to delight your weekend mood.

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Flowers, Ma Shouzhen (1548-1604), Ming dynasty

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2021-11-05

Dynamic and instantly recognizable, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's images once filled the streets of Paris and helped catapult his clients to fame.

Explore his inventive work the article "Toulouse-Lautrec: Representing the Celebrity Brand": https://t.co/1CZgkijkbo

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2020-09-23

in Xu Wei (1521–1593) was an all-around Ming scholar well-known for his bold artistic expressions. In this work, he used P'o Mo ('splash ink') technique in depicting stones and peonies, making it like a contemporary creation.🎍🌺

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2020-07-30

Befitting both the solemnity and joy of a wedding, this vibrant composition by Harlem Renaissance painter Jacob Lawrence combines the symmetrical rigidity of the standing figures with a riotous profusion of intensely colored stained-glass panels and flowers.

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2020-02-13

John Henry Twachtman loved winter for its potential to encourage reflection and regeneration. He was also a strong proponent of the belief that art can ease the hectic lives of urban dwellers.

Find winter solace in works like Twachtman's "Icebound"—#NowOnView in American Art.

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2020-01-28

In "Resting," Antonio Mancini applies his oils with reckless and ecstatic abandon, using an impasto technique—the brushwork clearly visible from the thickly applied paint—to evoke the haziness between wakefulness and sleep.

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2020-01-15

In Victorian England, aristocratic women produced new meanings for photographs by cutting them up and pasting them into elaborate watercolor scenes.

Here Lady Filmer placed herself at the heart of a gathering of fashionably attired friends and family—#NowOnView in Gallery 10.

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2019-12-25

Paul Gauguin's "Manao tupapau" depicts a nude woman curled up with her back to the viewer, haunted by spirits that emerge from the shadowy background at upper right.

See the block and print for "Manao tupapau (She Thinks of the Ghost or The Ghost Thinks of Her)"—#NowOnView

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2019-12-11

“Ernst Ludwig Kirchner" is on view at Neue Galerie New York through January 13, 2020. Get tickets: https://t.co/HdUDHrlHSp

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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, "Panama Dancers," 1910-11. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Bequest of W. R. Valentiner. Bridgeman Images.

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2019-12-11

The first Netherlandish painter known to have studied classical sculpture in Rome, Jan Gossart achieved a sophisticated fusion of Renaissance vocabulary and traditional Netherlandish style and form.

See his work among the many paintings depicting the Virgin and Child—#NowOnView

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2019-12-05

Architect Edward Bennett, co-author of the 1909 Plan of Chicago, continued to imagine the potential of the unfinished Grant Park into the 1920s.

One of the plan’s centerpieces was a monumental fountain on axis with Congress Parkway: https://t.co/BzPrOxYZoB

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2019-11-14

Vincent van Gogh’s short, nomadic life was characterized by a constant search for a home and place to belong.

He moved into his "Yellow House" in Arles, France in 1888. His Bedroom paintings marked the first time Van Gogh had a home of his own: https://t.co/orKQm5vVGs

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2019-11-06

Born Böcklin's haunting work made him an important contributor to the Symbolist movement.

"In the Sea" displays an unsettling, earthy realism. Mermaids and tritons frolic in the water with a lusty abandon, as large-eared heads emerge from the water.

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2019-10-17

Using a single color to set the emotional tone of a work, or choosing limited combinations of color with black, as does in "Tower Room, Fehmarn", the artist intensifies the psychological dramas playing out in the paintings. https://t.co/x8Yv6Wk5j1

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2019-10-08

A pivotal figure in 19th-century German painting, Carl Blechen's career marks the transition from Romanticism to a more realistic view of nature. "The Palm House" is both a record of a building, located on an island near Potsdam, and an evocation of a fantasy world.

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2019-09-07

Long committed to ideals of social equality, Fernand Léger sought to reconcile modern art with the demands of a mass audience. He turned to the motif of the human figure, using organic forms inspired by the natural world.

See "Divers on a Yellow Background"

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2019-09-05

Margaret of Austria, wife of King Philip III of Spain, stands resplendently dressed, her royal authority conveyed through her sumptuous attire. The large brooch she wears was part of the Spanish crown jewels for several centuries, appearing in numerous royal portraits.

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2019-08-27

The precise meaning of this roundel showing lovers in a garden is unclear, but the fire-breathing dragon was surely a warning.

Glass panels with moralizing and biblical scenes were particularly popular in fine houses of northern Europe—#NowOnView in Medieval and Renaissance Art.

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2019-07-24

"Is there a more mysterious idea," Franz Marc asked, "than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?"

In "The Bewitched Mill" four birds and a small horse resembling origami animals merge with a cascading stream that turns a waterwheel—#NowOnView in Modern Art.

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2019-07-18