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  • Uglification

    The Mock Turtle’s Story, 1907 illustrations by Arthur Rackham for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. …They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and…

  • Painting What You Know

    Cook’s Barn, 1939 by Marvin Cone. A friend and fellow teacher of Grant Wood, when you look at Cone’s work you can tell the two artists were working together and sharing techniques. He and…

  • Gaze

    Seated Woman with Bent Knee, 1917 by Egon Schiele Schiele was arrested and imprisoned for immoral artwork. His work was often more explicit than this example; his work is raw and uncompromising. He died…

  • Devoted

    January by Jean and Paul Limbourg. This is a page from one of the greatest surviving Illuminated Manuscripts. Manuscripts were small devotional books made for wealthy individual to use in their personal worship. This…

  • More Puppies

    String of Puppies, 1988 by Jeff Koons, various collections. Koons took this image off a card licensed by the photographer and reproduced it. He was sued and the court found that it was copyright…

  • What is Art?

    Cosmic Thing, 2003 by Damian Ortega, Answering the question “What is Art?” is a big job. I believe that it cannot be answered definitively and must be left up up to the individual. Let…

  • Blocks of Color

    Composition by Piet Mondrian, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York. Working to build his paintings from the simplest elements of lines and basic colors, Mondrian believed that he could control the line and color and…

  • Blue Heaven

    IKB 79,c.1959 by Yves Klein, Tate Gallery, London. Klein created his own color called IKB (International Klein Blue) and he devotes the entire canvas to the color. He wrote the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto about…

  • Down the Drain

    What the Water Gave Me, 1938 by Frida Kahlo. Kahlo’s work is always very personal. This one exposes the thoughts and dreams of the artist whose feet stick out of the water at the…