William Blake: Poetry and Old Testament visions make a perfect holiday exhibition

William Blake: Poetry and Old Testament visions make a perfect holiday exhibition

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind (1896) William Blake (1757–1827) combined the advantages of the outsider artist with those...
Painting: The Death of Amy Winehouse

Painting: The Death of Amy Winehouse

Maurice Denis: Flattening the art world with gentle avant-gardism

Maurice Denis: Flattening the art world with gentle avant-gardism

La Toilette de l'enfant, 1899 The avant-garde probably never looked as moderate and conservative as it did in 1888, when a group of you...
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A  major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT

Pierre-Auguste Renoir: A major Impressionist is thrown into sharp focus at the NACT

Dance at Bougival, 1883 "Suteki (beautiful)!" the young mother cries, dangling her one-year-old infant in front of Renoir&...
Fuyuko Matsui: Pinpricks in the Darkness

Fuyuko Matsui: Pinpricks in the Darkness

The Beautiful and Disturbing art of Fuyuko Matsui Art, despite all its complexities and convolutions, is and always has been...
Marc Chagall: Painting the great power of love

Marc Chagall: Painting the great power of love

L'Anniversaire  In Japan July 7th is a special day. It is the festival of Tanabata when two celestial starcrossed lovers cross t...

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