Andrew Wyeth – Braids (1977)
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Criselda Vasquez – The New American Gothic (2017)
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26 Times Cats Stole the Spotlight in Medieval Art
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Max Kurzweil – Woman in a yellow dress (1899)
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How 14 Self-Portraits Tell the Story of Picasso’s Restless Reinvention
Pablo Picasso’s self-portraits offer not only a mirror into his own psychology, but also a vivid timeline of his relentless stylistic invention. Over the span of more than seven decades, Picasso returned to the act of self-depiction with an insistence that was equal parts curiosity and bravado. To move through fourteen of these portraits—beginning when Picasso was 15 and continuing into his 90s—is to encounter a singular artistic mind ceaselessly reinventing itself.
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5 Pieces of Art Worth Slowing Down For
At Eternity’s Gate by Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Completed in 1890, just months before his death, it is deceptively simple: an old man, head in hands, seated on a wooden chair beside a glowing fire. The palette is all Van Gogh—thick, pulsing strokes of blue and ochre, yellow and green. But here the color is less about celebration and more about endurance.
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The Son of Man by Rene Magritte, 1946
René Magritte’s The Son of Man is a painting you recognize instantly—even if you don’t know its name. A man in a trim gray suit and red tie stands by a stone wall, blue sky and restless sea behind him, a neat green apple hovering where his face should be. The bowler hat is there too, perched jauntily, as if it might tip itself in greeting if only it weren’t so busy concealing something.
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5 Iconic Pieces of Art Worth Slowing Down For
“Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I” – Gustav Klimt, 1907
Few paintings announce themselves with the brazen shimmer of Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. At first glance, it’s overwhelming—gold leaf everywhere, patterns stacked upon patterns, the subject almost swallowed whole by the ornamental whirl around her. But look again, and you’ll see the tension that defines much of Gustav Klimt’s best work: the push and pull between excess and intimacy, surface and soul.
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5 Iconic Artworks Worth Slowing Down For
Guernica – Pablo Picasso, 1937
Let me get this out of the way: if Guernica doesn’t stop you in your tracks, check your pulse. This isn’t just one of Picasso’s masterpieces—it’s one of the only works of art that still feels like it’s on fire.
It’s twelve feet tall, twenty-five feet wide, and it screams. No color. No gentle transitions. Just black, white, and the kind of gray that lives in the back of your throat when you’re trying not to cry. Horses collapsing. Women howling. A child dead in a mother’s arms. Light bulbs as eyes. A broken sword. This thing is biblical. It’s a modern apocalypse told with geometry and grief.