Mr. Hulings’ Picture Rack, 1888 by William Harnett, Private Collection.
Harnett was a master of the Trompe L’Oeil (trick the eye) painting. The Greeks and Romans painted in this style but the term was coined in the Baroque period.
Category: art history
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Suffering
Kitaj was born in Cleveland, but lives and works mostly in England. This chaotic piece portrays the gates at Auschwitz and references T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land.
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Banned
Self-portrait with Model, c. 1910 by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Kirchner’s self-portrait is the main focus of this work (who could ignore that robe). His work was branded “degenerate” by the Nazi’s.
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Artist Model
October, 1877 by James Tissot, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Another example of a Tissot model Kathleen Newton, the same one (I believe) as here. Often artists used the same models, even the same costumes as similar garments turn-up again and again.
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Woman in Blue Dress
Louise de Broglie, The Countesse d’Haussonville by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Frick Collection
Ingres was a French 19th Century painter known for his realism. I am particularly fond of his fabrics – so realistic and so lush.
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Puppies and Pears
Still Life with Three Puppies, 1888 by Paul Gauguin, the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.
This was painted by Gauguin the same year he lived with van Gogh.
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Another Look
Landscape: A Man Looking at a Waterfall, Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian.
The first time someone told me to look at Chinese paintings up and down instead of across, it made seeing the whole image so much easier.
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Ideal California
A Bigger Splash, 1967 by David Hockney, Tate Gallery, London.
Hockney was interested in capturing a splash of water that only lasts for mere seconds and depicting it on canvas. Throughout his career he has done series on the same subjects.
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Romance of the Sea
Captain Kidd, 1907 by Howard Pyle.
Pyle was better known as an illustrator and this comes from the Book of Pirates, which he also wrote.
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Starkist
The Mermaid, 1910 by Howard Pyle, The Delaware Museum of Art.
This was the painting Pyle was working on when he sailed for Italy to study mural painting by studying the Italian Renaissance masters. He died while in Italy.
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