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"Maquette de costume pour 'Le Rêve de Léonor'"
Two whimsical, spritely figures prance against a tan background. The figure on the left in tones of peach and pink, the one on the right in bluish white tones.
September 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"A painting is something like a spectacle, a theater piece in which each figure lives out her part."

Leonor Fini

"Le Double"

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A female kneels on an abstract floor draped in a beautiful cape, next to either her double or her reflection.
September 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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"When Inez came out of the water she was crying with the tiniest voice. I wasn't expecting her voice. To have a whole new person with their own voice in your arms… We live in a world that is so magical, something as mind blowing as birth is quotidian."

"Eye(Birth)"
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The water birth of the artist's daughter is seen in the reflection from the artist's eye as he witnessed the birth.
September 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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"The Bottom of Mind"- Ari Kwon
A lonely figures stands amid an ethereal and obscure bluish green landscape
September 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Ari Kwon's surreal, ethereal work visualizes the gap between an outwardly happy appearance and the private feelings of loss, anxiety, and deviation that individuals often hide.

"A Dream Messenger"

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Bird's take flight from a barren tree in the lower right corner of the frame into a vivid purplish sky representing the world of dreams.
September 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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“My art reflects the world I perceive with all my senses. People I meet and love; nature I admire; and all the things that affect the way I am.”

Justyna Kopania

"Mist #3"

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An abstract Impressionist painting in which a ghostly sailing ship comes out of the mist directly towards the viewer. Seagulls in flight precede the ship heading toward the viewer as well. The abstract vertical lines of dark color in the background give the impression of a stormy sea in the distance
September 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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"When life feels chaotic & unfathomable, pause & listen. Listen to the murmur of the trees, the rushing chatter of a river, the birds weaving melodies into the wind. In these moments, you may hear the quiet wisdom of the world & your own place within it.”

Genevieve Leavold

#fineartpainting #art
An abstract painting of vividly colored forms inspired by natural landscape features like rivers and desert canyons. Sunset orange tones and glacial blue intertwine like features of an abstract landscape.
September 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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The California impressionists applied the techniques of impressionism to paint mostly the beautiful landscape of California's coast.

"Hazy Morning"

Jean Mannheim

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Warm morning sunlight shines through the morning haze onto a rural cottage which sits in the center of the scene. Shrubs and a dirt path fill the foreground while tall trees can be seen through the haze in the distance
September 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power."

Jean-Francois Millet

Hugh Cameron was a Scottish painter who, like Millet, specialized in painting the beauty of the commonplace.

"The Careful Sister "

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"The Careful Sister" painting by Hugh Cameron. A young girl walks hand in hand with her younger sister along a Scottish beach.
June 20, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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In honor of the election of Pope Leo IV today I present what is widely considered the greatest works of art depicting a Pope.
Fittingly, that is Raphael's portrait of Pope Leo X, painted between 1518 & 1520.

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Pope Leo X shown in a candid pose reading scripture. Two personal attendants stand nearby.
May 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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"Paintings are not primarily there to be explained, but to be looked at. And there are paintings where trying to explain makes no sense because the meaning of the painting is different from that expressed by language."

Wolfgang Lettl

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"1789" painting by Wolfgang Lettl An abstract painting of seven female figures appearing to dance interspersed with various open books.
May 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“Nothing matters in this world to the painter, but a good picture. And it must be a mighty good one to compete with those already done."

Gari Melchers

"The Unpretentious Garden "

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A woman sits in a chair in a garden while another woman walks towards the house in the background. Trees and flowers adorn the yard.
April 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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"The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble."

Wassily Kandinsky

"Light Picture"

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An abstract painting by Kandinsky not meant to represent any object, but rather to use color and form invoke the feelings of joy and awe that music does without words or analytical thought being necessary.
April 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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“Atmosphere in a painting is achieved through bathing the canvas in a single scale of colors. Thus one achieves an état d’âme (state of being) exteriorized in luminous form.”

František Kupka

"Synthesis"

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An early example of Orphism, an abstract painting style that blends color theory, music theory, and curved geometric forms to create works of pure visual abstraction. The intent is to move the viewer without conscious thoughts the way music does
April 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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A remarkable female painter whose work was forgotten after her death for 250 years.
She was far ahead of her time, painting portraits & nude figures in an era when women were not allowed to study live models when painting.

Michaelina Wautier

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"Sense of Smell" Michaelina Wautier From a series of paintings depicting the five senses, a young boy holds a rotten egg in his left hand while pinching his nose with the right hand. Wautier was a master at depicting natural light.
April 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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"Romantic River Scene"

Horace Wolcott Robbins

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An idyllic river scene with trees and pastures along the shore of a placid river.
April 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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The landscape in Florida is often more waterscape.

#Scape
#EastCoastKin
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A central Florida swamp where you can boat into a long tunnel of trees and feel like you're in a primeval world.
April 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Golden hour at global headquarters in Copenhagen.

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#art
Sun illuminates Maersk HQ in Copenhagen as stormclouds close in
April 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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"Resistance is in each of us. We resist by exercising our creativity. That is true poetry…to resist is to be a poet and to live an uninterrupted metaphor."

Roberto Matta

"A Grave Situation"

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A totemic figure trapped among mechanical shapes and planes is an abstract interpretation of the human condition in an industrial age.
April 8, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"I am interested only in the unknown and I work for my own astonishment."

Roberto Matta

"Star Travel"

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An abstract painting inspired by interstellar travel.
April 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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"Usually I throw away what I don't get right the first time."

Kenneth Noland

"Bravo Costa Brava "

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Abstract painting by Kenneth Noland.
April 6, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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"Desert Animals"

William Baziotes

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An abstract painting in purple yellow and green tones based on desert lizards.
April 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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"As for the subject matter in my painting.. ..it is very often an incidental thing in the background, elusive and unclear, that really stirred me."

William Baziotes

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"Untitled"-1957 abstract painting by William Baziotes. Blue green red and white are the dominant colors.
April 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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"Painting is by nature a luminous language."

Robert Delaunay

"La Tour Rouge"

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Abstract painting of the Eiffel Tower
April 4, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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“[Beal's work depicts]the eternal pleasures of work and leisure, the casual enjoyable incidents which add so much to life’s richness.”

Barry Faulkner

"The Fish Bucket"
- Gifford Beal

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A fisherman unloads his catch on the wooden deck of a ship
April 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM