May 24
The Warrior FRAGONARD, Jean-Honore 1769, oil on canvas Clark Art Institute, currently being shown at the Kimbell

The Warrior

FRAGONARD, Jean-Honore

1769, oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently being shown at the Kimbell

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Self Portraits from 1875 and 1899

RENOIR, Pierre Auguste

Oil on canvas

Clark Art Institute, currently on exhibit in Fort Worth, Texas at the Kimbell

These are kind of breathtaking right next to each other - the sheer difference in the texture of the paint is incredible, though it’s hard to tell how raised and rough the surface is on the first (make sure you click to get a better idea).  (Renoir intended to throw the first portrait in the trash, but a friend persuaded him not to.)

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April 25

Artist Riusuke Fukahori paints three-dimensional goldfish one resin layer at a time. The video shows a truly remarkable way of creating realistic art.

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December 7
I and the VillageMarc Chagall1911The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA Painted the year after Chagall came to Paris, I and the Village evokes his memories of his native Hasidic community outside Vitebsk. In the village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to cow, connecting their eyes. The peasant’s flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity’s link to the universe, and the painting’s large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth. (From the MoMA website.)

I and the Village
Marc Chagall
1911
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, USA

Painted the year after Chagall came to Paris, I and the Village evokes his memories of his native Hasidic community outside Vitebsk. In the village, peasants and animals lived side by side, in a mutual dependence here signified by the line from peasant to cow, connecting their eyes. The peasant’s flowering sprig, symbolically a tree of life, is the reward of their partnership. For Hasids, animals were also humanity’s link to the universe, and the painting’s large circular forms suggest the orbiting sun, moon (in eclipse at the lower left), and earth. (From the MoMA website.)

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December 6

Autumn Landscape with Four Trees
Vincent Van Gogh
1885
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands

Autumn Landscape
Vincent Van Gogh
1885
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Autumn Landscape at Dusk
Vincent Van Gogh
1885
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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December 5
Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham)John Singleton Copley 1765The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA American portrait artist John Singleton Copley showcased this piece at the exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, making it the first American painting to be shown abroad. Born in Boston, Copley’s mother remarried Peter Pelham after Copley’s father died, which proved beneficial to the artist in that Pelham was both an engraver and friends with many local painters. The subject in the above painting is of Copley’s half-brother, Henry Pelham.

Boy with Squirrel (Henry Pelham)
John Singleton Copley
1765
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA

American portrait artist John Singleton Copley showcased this piece at the exhibition of the Incorporated Society of Artists in 1766, making it the first American painting to be shown abroad. Born in Boston, Copley’s mother remarried Peter Pelham after Copley’s father died, which proved beneficial to the artist in that Pelham was both an engraver and friends with many local painters. The subject in the above painting is of Copley’s half-brother, Henry Pelham.

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December 1
Looking Down Yosemite Valley, CaliforniaAlbert Bierstadt1865Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California
Albert Bierstadt
1865
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama

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November 8
The Abbey in the Oakwood (Abtei im Eichwald)Caspar David Friedrich1809-1810Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany This painting depicts Gothic church ruins in mid-winter. The trees are stripped of leaves and create a frame for what has become a cemetery. The figures are monks in a processional to a new grave.

The Abbey in the Oakwood (Abtei im Eichwald)
Caspar David Friedrich
1809-1810
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

This painting depicts Gothic church ruins in mid-winter. The trees are stripped of leaves and create a frame for what has become a cemetery. The figures are monks in a processional to a new grave.

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October 25

Self-Portrait
Pablo Picasso
1896
Museo Picasso, Barcelona, Spain

Self-portrait with Cloak
Pablo Picasso
1901
Musée Picasso, Paris, France

Self-Portrait
Pablo Picasso
1907
Narodni Gallery, Prague, Czechia

Self-Portrait
Pablo Picasso
1938
(Does anyone know where this is housed?)

Happy birthday, Pablo Picasso, born 130 years ago today.

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October 13
Unexpected Visitors (or They Did Not Expect Him)Ilya Repin1884-1888The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Unexpected Visitors (or They Did Not Expect Him)
Ilya Repin
1884-1888
The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia


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