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  • Really Interesting

    500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs By eggman913

  • We are the 80’s

    Men in the Cities series, 1984 by Robert Longo. The Men in the Cities series first brought Robert Longo to the public’s attention when it was featured in movies, television and magazines in the…

  • Kindred Spirits

    The Flatiron, 1920 by Alfred Stieglitz. Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe were married in 1924. By this time his career as an innovative photographer had been established and hers as a painter, was beginning.

  • Lone Tree

    Oak Tree Sunset City by Ansel Adams,© The Ansel Adams Gallery. Ansel Adams is best known for his black and white photographs of sweeping landscapes, however he also did portraits and smaller still lifes.

  • Red Room

    The Dinner Table (Harmony in Red) by Henri Matisse. Matisse is part of the art movement known as the Fauvists. Color is the central focus of the short-lived movement but they also concentrated on…

  • Getting Engaged

    The Engagement of Virgin Mary, 1504 by Raffaello Sanzio(Raphael), Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. This painting is an early work by the famous Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The work is a study in receding space.…

  • Influences

    Aboriginal, 1984 by Jean-Michel Basquiat. One of the popular artists of the 1980’s who rose to prominence and was considered the star of the group that included Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Robert Longo, and…

  • Paradise Revisited

    Island Feast, 1940 published 1953 by Eugene Savage, S.S. Lurline, Matson Line. Savage created a set of nine murals for the Matson ship line (which sailed to Hawaii) in 1940 but they were not…

  • The Return

    Peace Concluded, 1856 by John Everett Millais. This scene marks the end of the Crimean War and the return home of the soldier to his family. On the mother’s lap, four animals from the…