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Color pastels, colored chalk, colorful chalk. Hompepage blog 2009, arts and entertainment, history and society
Ultimate Art Quiz
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Artists, Painters, & Architects
Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
Who Painted the Most Expensive Paintings in the World?
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"Seascape at Port-en-Bessin, Normandy" Georges Seurat, ca. 1888, oil on canvas, 65.1 x 80.9 cm
Neo-Impressionism: What Was the Point?
Aerial view of Florence (Firenze), Italy from the campanile of the Duomo, with the gigantic dome (designed by Filippo Brunelleschi) in the foreground. Unidentifiable tourists are visible on top of the dome, which provide a measure of the building s scale.
25 Famous Paintings to See the Next Time You’re in Florence
Vandalized Art list. Combo of EB owned illustration (top) and parent Asset 182294. 4 of 11 The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez was hit with a meat cleaver by Mary Richardson
Art Abuse: 11 Vandalized Works of Art
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Art History: The Origins of 7 of Your Favorite Art Supplies
Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel
Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries
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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)
All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained
Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
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Nostradamus and His Prophecies
New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.
Where Is “Old Zealand”?
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
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Born November 11, 1863 • Paris • France
Died August 15, 1935 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Founder Salon des Indépendants
Movement / Style Neo-Impressionism • divisionism • pointillism
Subjects Of Study Neo-Impressionism

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Paul Signac
Paul Signac: Snow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris
Paul Signac: The Papal Palace, Avignon
Paul Signac: View of the Port of Marseille
Connecting the dots: What is pointillism?
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Georges Seurat
Georges Seurat
French painter
Camille Pissarro: Self-Portrait
Camille Pissarro
French artist
James McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
American artist
Tower of the Rising Clouds, colour on silk by Mi Fu; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Mi Fu
Chinese artist
La Farge, John: Flowers on a Japanese Tray on a Mahogany Table
John La Farge
American painter
Jing Hao
Chinese artist
Claude Monet: Self-portrait in a Beret
Claude Monet
French painter
Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center
Wassily Kandinsky
Russian-born artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Claude Lorrain: Ulysses Returns Chryseis to Her Father
Claude Lorrain
French artist
Sérusier, Paul: The Flowered Gate
Paul Sérusier
French painter
Amédée Ozenfant
French painter
Boudin, Eugène: Women on the Beach at Berck
Eugène Boudin
French painter
Coypel, Charles-Antoine: Painting Ejecting Thalia
Charles-Antoine Coypel
French artist
“The Mask of Joseph Vernet,” chalk and pastel portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, Fr.
Joseph Vernet
French painter
André Lhote
French artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Elaine and Willem de Kooning
Elaine de Kooning
American artist
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari
Italian artist and author

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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.
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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
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