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  • More Amazing Fabric

    Madame Jacques-Louis LeBlanc (Francoise Poncelle), 1823 by Jean-August-Dominique Ingres. Ingres did over two dozen preliminary drawings in preparation for this painting. His work is clear and sharp and seems more like a photograph than…

  • Closer to God

    The Builders, 1920 by Fernand Leger. A follower of the Cubist movement, elements of it can be seen in this work of workers on a high rise. He was trained in an architect’s office…

  • Shaping Nature with Color

    Le Talisman, 1888 by Paul Serusier Serusier was strongly influenced by Post Impressionist Paul Gauguin’s bright and bold works and this painting represents nature broken into blocks of color. What makes the Nabis artists…

  • Earliest Influences

    Woman, Bird by Moonlight by Joan Miro. Miro was one of the most prominent members of the Surrealist movement. His artwork is filled with fantasy and color and he brings the viewer inside his…

  • Enjoy the View

    The Swing by Jean-Honore Fragonard. Fragonard is considered the greatest artist of a short period known as Rococo. This 18th century style followed the Baroque period where it utilized all the ornament and fashion…

  • What is Art?

    Fountain by Marcel Duchamp. In 1917 French Dadaist artist turned the art world on it’s ear when he exhibited this piece signed by “R.Mutt.” He said Mr. Mutt did not need to create the…

  • Selfish

    The Concert, 1660 by Johannes Vermeer, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (stolen 1990). The FBI has a website which lists stolen art and gives a description of the crime. More often than not, when…

  • Drapery

    Drapery Study for Semiramis by Edgar Degas. Sometimes the studies artist’s do (and often never intend to publish) are the most beautiful.

  • Inspiration at Home

    Anne with a Japanese Parasol, 1917 by George Bellows. Bellows did quite a few portraits of his family and friends. This is his oldest daughter. He was a member of the group known as…