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Bulb Fields - Vincent van Gogh 1883

Created in The Hague, The Netherlands .

Van Gogh painted this one just two years after he received his first art instruction ever, from his cousin’s husband Anton Muave.

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“Travel East to see the real West,” said Charles Lummis to Maynard Dixon. Dixon (1875-1946) was born on a ranch near Fresno, California. His friend and mentor Lummis was a journalist, photographer and poet who walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in 1884, a 2,200-mile journey that took him through New Mexico in the dead of winter. Despite the severe hardships of the journey, Lummis fell in love with the Southwest and became a staunch advocate for historic preservation projects and the rights of the Pueblo Indians.

Inspired by Lummis’ tales, Dixon set out on his own Southwestern adventure in 1900...

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REVELATIONS: EXPERIMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY

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William Henry Fox Talbot, Insect Wings, c.1840, © National Media Museum. Source

Science and technology are the two key ingredients in ‘Revelations: Experiments in Photography’, a groundbreaking exhibition from the Science Museum. The show looks at how early scientific photography in...

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Who knew these spectacular photography methods could be traced so far back?

More great photography.

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Detail from Columbus and His Son at La Rabida, Eugene Delacroix, 1838

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Just delicious. More great details of artwork here.

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Jane, Evelyn, James and Helen - Philip Connard 1913

British 1875-1958

Oil paint on canvas

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Really, everyone should have an ENORMOUS painting in their breakfast nook.

More art history.

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Léon Bonvin, landscapes, 1859-1866. More: Walters Art Museum, USA.

“He had but the cold hours of the morning or the heavy hours of the night in which to draw and paint his water-colors” … Despite displaying great talent, Bonvin was largely unrecognized by his contemporaries. In 1866 he hanged himself at the age of 32, apparently due to financial difficulties. More: thewalters.org

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He made the most of it!

More art history.

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Art-making class at the turn of the 19th century, Cincinnati Art Museum.

More art world fun.

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Clashing images of insomnia and peaceful rest from two of our favorite modernists.

Edvard Munch, Night in Saint Cloud, 1892.

Pablo Picasso, Le Repos (Rest), 1932.

More art history.

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Ophelia (study - Elizabeth Siddall) Sir John Everett Millais - 1852

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Start to finish! Here's a detail of the finished work:

More behind-the-scenes art history insights here.

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MANET & VELÁZQUEZ

Édouard Manet’s letters to his friend and fellow artist Fantin-Latour, and to his admired friend Charles Baudelaire …in which he expressed his feelings after his first meeting with Diego Velázquez’s art in the Spanish Museo del Prado (September 1, 1865).

* Excerpt: “At last, my dear Baudelaire, I’ve really come to know Velázquez, and I tell you he’s the greatest artist has ever been; I saw 30 or 40 of his canvases in Madrid, portraits and other things, all masterpieces; he’s greater tan his reputation and compensates all by himsef for the fatigue and problems that are inevitable on a journey in Spain.”

Source: ‘Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting’, p. 231.

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More art history.

Source: spanishbaroqueart

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Paul Serusier, The Stream, 1892

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Serusier moved to Pont-Aven in 1888 and befriended Paul Gauguin and other artists in the area. While he was there, he painted The Talisman under the guidance of Gauguin. The work takes Cloisonnism to its farthest extreme: glowing blocks of color mix and meld together, prefiguring abstract art.

Learn more about Gauguin and his aesthetic innovations here.

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A Vision of the Utter Chaos That Was Early-19th-Century Firefighting

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"Early 19th-century firefighting in the cities of the American Northeast was chaotic and ineffective, with companies—fraternal organizations operating on a volunteer basis—competing against each other to score access to fires. Conflagrations often got out of control as firefighters, enjoying the party atmosphere, got too drunk to respond effectively. Companies elaborately decorated their firehouses and marched in parades, but didn’t devote time to drill."