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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

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

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

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

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

One of Paul Delvaux's most ambitious paintings, “The Awakening of the Forest” draws thematic inspiration from Jules Verne. It also shows the dramatic and lasting effect Surrealists like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte had on Delvaux's work in the late 1930s.

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2019-05-24

NEW ACQUISITION—These two striking creatures are the result of a collaboration between sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet and the stoneware manufactory Emile Muller et Cie. To create these imaginary beasts, Frémiet drew on medieval imagery and his lifelong zoological studies.

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2019-01-24

Leonora Carrington’s imaginative portrait of her friend—self-taught artist Juan Soriano—was one of the first paintings in which she combined Surrealist-inspired dreamscapes with the history and ancient practices of Mexico, her adopted homeland—#NowOnView in Modern Art.

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2018-11-27

Charles M. Russell, the self-proclaimed cowboy artist, was a prolific artist of Indian subjects. This painting "Indian Canoe Party" demonstrates his preferred style for depicting Native subjects in a romanticized manner.

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2018-11-14

Toward the end of his life, Francisco de Goya created some of his most mysterious imagery, considering themes of superstition and the fantastical nature of dreams and nightmares.

See monstrous demons, winged creatures, demonic cats, and other frightful beasts by Goya.

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2018-10-12

“The Key” by Jackson Pollock marks a crucial moment in his evolution as an artist. Created on the floor and worked on directly from all sides, this quasi-Surrealist painting prefigured Pollock’s celebrated drip paintings, which debuted the following year.

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2018-09-28

Edvard Munch painted "The Girl by the Window" the same year as his most famous work, "The Scream." The loosely applied, somber brown tones mingle with violets and blues in this unsettling and enigmatic scene, evoking a feeling of melancholy and anticipation.

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2018-09-26

In Édouard Manet’s "Steamboat Leaving Boulogne," a side-wheel packet steamer heads up the channel, leaving slower sailing boats in its wake.

See this boldly brushed and almost calligraphic canvas among ten works by Manet

EXPLORE—https://t.co/fnA0YdWZMm

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2018-09-06

Born in 1880—The first American painter to experiment with pure abstraction, Arthur Dove dispensed with representational subjects, creating patterns, rhythms, and color harmonies in order to communicate through form and color alone.

See five works

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2018-08-03

Born in 1830—Camille Pissarro's interest in painting was driven in part by his egalitarian political beliefs. His paintings of peasants working in fields reflected his belief in the essential dignity of the laboring class.

See eight paintings by Pissarro

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2018-07-11

The Entrepreneur - San Francisco (2006) by in "Places to Call Home: Settlements in the West". Learn more at https://t.co/VRMapRfTrJ.

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2018-04-25

Wanda Pimentel emerged within Brazil’s 1960s New Figuration movement, which used Pop-inflected representation as a form of sardonic commentary on and resistance to the country’s dictatorial government and the constraints imposed on women by a patriarchal society.

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2018-03-16