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A Masterpiece of Art Nouveau

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At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance is an oil-on-canvas masterpiece painted in 1890 by French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec<...

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Bertram Mackennal was one of the most successful Australian artists working internationally in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His profile and performance in Britain, where he lived as an expatriate, substantially outshone that of his Australian peers such as Tom Roberts and Arthur Streeton....

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After his groundbreaking investigations of complex forms and patterns in the paintings of his Cubist years—paintings such as the 1920 Composition—Léger moved towards a style of greater generalization and simplicity. In the 1920s and 1930s, he experimented with painting large-scale images of the huma...

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As a result of the visit of André Breton, the Pope of Surrealism, to Mexico, many fantasy painters of surrealism made their debut. Among these new artists, female painters such as Frida Kahlo, Remedios Varo, and Leonora Carrington were prominent. Maria Izquierdo, as well, is internationally acclaime...

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Cranach's painting is about the human yearning for immortality and eternal youth. Human beings dream of being young again, of leaving the worn outer shell and exchanging it for a new one. The notion of the cleansing power of the elements, especially of water, is as old as humankind itself. The centr...

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In this vast canvas Orazio Gentileschi depicts the Old Testament story of the Finding of Moses (Exodus 2:2-10). When Pharaoh decreed that all newborn sons of Hebrews should be killed, the infant Moses was placed by his mother in a basket and hidden in bulrushes to ensure his safety.Here, nine elegan...

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Upon returning to Australia in late 1956 after five years in London, Fred Williams saw the landscape of his own country through new eyes. The vast featureless spaces, undistinguished scrubby bush and harsh light of his homeland offered a distinct contrast to the picturesque English countryside with ...

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William Jennys, son of the artist Richard Jennys (ca. 1734–ca. 1809), was a prolific itinerant portrait painter who was trained by and traveled with his father from about 1792 to 1808, painting portraits along the eastern seaboard. In a newly competitive market for portrait painting that emerged in ...

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A festal procession of the “Apolline Triad” traverses the foreground of the relief. Apollo, his sister Diana, and their mother Latona, all in long robes, walk towards a circular altar at the right. Beside it stands the winged goddess of victory. Apollo holds his stringed instrument (kithara) in his ...

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The Iranian legend of the mythical bird the Mausiqar, which provides the seven notes that are said to comprise the origin of music, is the inspiration for this composition. The bird that serves as the musician’s muse almost goes unnoticed, while attention focuses on the vina player seated on a beaut...

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The Peasant’s Misfortune (shown here) shows a peasant’s house being overrun by soldiers and their hangerson. In the companion piece, The Peasant’s Pleasure (see SK-A-1352) the soldiers are being driven out of the house again. These scenes belong to a southern Netherlandish tradition of small-figured...

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A Masterpiece of Art Nouveau

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A Masterpiece of Art Nouveau

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