The Milkmaid is typical of Vermeer, depicting anonymous girls in domestic settings with remarkable detail - so much so that even Dalí was fascinated by the precision in The Lacemaker. The small Dutch tiles (45 x 41 cm) showcase Vermeer’s skill.
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March 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The Milkmaid is typical of Vermeer, depicting anonymous girls in domestic settings with remarkable detail - so much so that even Dalí was fascinated by the precision in The Lacemaker. The small Dutch tiles (45 x 41 cm) showcase Vermeer’s skill.
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#realArt #Art #Netherlands 🇳🇱
Hals’ Portrait of a Man is compositionally simple and coloristically uniform, reflecting his stylistic evolution in the 1630s. The figure seems to “burst” from the canvas, with a dynamic posture. Hals painted quickly, capturing movement like a cinematic freeze-frame.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Hals’ Portrait of a Man is compositionally simple and coloristically uniform, reflecting his stylistic evolution in the 1630s. The figure seems to “burst” from the canvas, with a dynamic posture. Hals painted quickly, capturing movement like a cinematic freeze-frame.
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If you seek #horror in art, Japanese woodblock prints deliver. Hokusai’s work shows Koheiji, murdered by his wife and her lover, returning to haunt them. His skeletal hands pull back a mosquito net as he grins with vengeful delight. A dark, eerie scene full of menace.
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#realArt #Art #Japan 🇯🇵
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Edward Hopper drew inspiration from the elements of everyday life in #USA, while transforming ordinary places into evocative symbols of modern existence. In the picture *Western Motel*, an ordinary motel room becomes a symbol of mobility and lack of its own place in the modern world.
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February 15, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Unlike earlier *ukiyo-e* artists, whose landscapes usually depicted well-known places, Hasui Kawase was one of the first artists to capture the unknown rural areas and urban corners that captivated them. He often travelled and captured the picturesque wonders of #Japan.
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February 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823-1903) made a career painting idealised children, especially beautiful girls. They were portraits of rural children in a rustic setting, rich in their comfortable homes and fleeting mythological and literary characters.
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#Art #realArt #England #France
February 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
*The Agent* was painted when Johannes Vermeer was only 24 years old, three years after his admission to the artists' guild. This is his first genre painting, which shows a scene of modern life - a picture of the love of mercenaries.
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#Art #realArt #Netherlands
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
*The Agent* was painted when Johannes Vermeer was only 24 years old, three years after his admission to the artists' guild. This is his first genre painting, which shows a scene of modern life - a picture of the love of mercenaries.
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#Art #realArt #Netherlands
Laura Wheeler Waring, author of the painting "The Girl in the Green Cap" was a recognised #black #artist of the early 20th century. She created under the influence of #Monet, #Manet, #Corot and #Cézanne, joining the group of the important portraitists of the #Harlem Renaissance.
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#Art #realArt #USA
February 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When Modigliani painted this portrait, which is now in the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, Paul Guillaume was twenty-three years old. Already a recognised dealer of *l'art négre*, Guillaume was presented as a "new helmsman" and defender of contemporary #art.
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#realArt #Italy
January 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
*Aphrodite of Melos*, better known as *Venus of Milo*, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. It is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty - Venus to the Romans. Most likely, it’s the work of Alexander of Antioch.
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January 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
*Aphrodite of Melos*, better known as *Venus of Milo*, is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture. It is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty - Venus to the Romans. Most likely, it’s the work of Alexander of Antioch.
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Malczewski's #self-portraits were particularly irritated by contemporary critics, who accused the artist of excessive pride and a tendency to "dress up". This #painting, like all symbolic works, is not unambiguously interpreted, one can only try to read its meaning.
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#Art #realArt #Poland
January 26, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Malczewski's #self-portraits were particularly irritated by contemporary critics, who accused the artist of excessive pride and a tendency to "dress up". This #painting, like all symbolic works, is not unambiguously interpreted, one can only try to read its meaning.
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#Art #realArt #Poland
These two figures may be Lorenzo di Ranieri Scolari and Angiola di Bernardo Sapiti, who married around 1439. Lippi's task was complicated because of the Italian favour of the profile view as opposed to the *en trois quarts* view, which was preferred north of the Alps.
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#Art #realArt #Italy
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
*The #winter #landscape in the moonlight* depicts Mount Tinzenhorn in the #Swiss Alps with striking exuberance. This scene had a deep personal significance for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who had settled in the #Alps a few years earlier to cure himself from a nervous #breakdown.
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#realArt #Art #Germany
January 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
*The #winter #landscape in the moonlight* depicts Mount Tinzenhorn in the #Swiss Alps with striking exuberance. This scene had a deep personal significance for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who had settled in the #Alps a few years earlier to cure himself from a nervous #breakdown.
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#realArt #Art #Germany
Fascinated by the physical alluration of women, Dante Gabriel Rossetti imagines the legendary femme fatale as a self-supt 19th-century beauty who combs her hair and seductively reveals her shoulders. Nearby flowers symbolise different types of love.
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#Art #realArt #England
January 21, 2025 at 12:41 PM