Vincent Van Gogh in Saint Remy de Provence

Tired of Paris and its cold, northern climate, his mental and physical health deteriorating, the painter Vincent Van Gogh moved

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Takashi Murakami: Mr Superflat in Palazzo Grassi, Venice

During a 2011 trip to Venice , I visited Palazzo Grassi’s exhibition “The World belongs to you” where I saw

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Harakiri School Girls: by Makoto Aida

“It is spirit, not painting” Makoto Aida Makoto Aida’s work “Harakiri School Girls” is a composition that recurs in the

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Art Institue of Chicago – Modern Art

Today my topic is works of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago which I last visited in April

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Woman Reclining, Sleeping (1901 – 1995)

Last update: 8th September 2024 The topic of this post is the pictorial depiction of the female figure reclining, or

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Carmen Gaudin

Updated on the 14th August 2024 Carmen Gaudin was the favourite model of the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901).

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View of the Asylum and the Chapel at Saint Remy de Provence

At the end of the 19th century, the former Augustinian monastery of Saint Paul de Mausole, dating back to the

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Caspar David Friedrich: “the most solitary of the solitary”

First time I saw “The Wanderer”, CD Friedrich’s masterpiece, it was on the front cover of Nietzsche’s book “Thus spoke

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The Discovery of Matthias Grunewald: a personal journey

Featured Image: Grünewald in a 19th century depiction on the de:Frankoniabrunnen, by Ferdinand von Miller (1824), now in front of the Würzburg Residence.

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Church of Saint Anna, Amorgos, Greece – Αγία Άννα, Αμοργός

This is a painting I finished a few days ago. It depicts the small church of Saint Anna, on the

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