Tag: Manet
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The 14 Paintings That Revolutionized Art
From Gustav Klimt’s gilded aesthetic to Hieronymus Bosch’s devilish landscapes, the realm of art history has seen its fair share of radical painters. Today we accept the work of these artists as part of the canon, but at the time of their debut, masterpieces like “Adele Bloch-Bauer I” and “The Garden of Earthly Delights” were…
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Is This The Best Way to Recognize the Artists of Famous Paintings?
If you haven’t studied art history, it can sometimes be a bit confronting walking around a museum or art gallery and trying to get your head around who painted what. So with this in mind, here’s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek guide as to how YOU can easily work out which artist painted what. Though some…
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Famous Paintings Recreated Using Thousands of Torn Magazine Scrap
Brazilian-born Brooklyn-based artist Vik Muniz has a number of works on display at Galerie Xippas in Paris as part of his Pictures of Magazine 2 series. The nine pieces are recreations of famous paintings by Van Gogh, Manet, Cézanne and other artists using cut and torn fragments from popular magazines. We’ve seen a number of works similar to these where multiple…