Tag: great art explained

Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat once revealed that he had been ‘interested in finding an opt...

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Andy Warhol's Marilyn

Andy Warhol made “Marilyn Diptych” in 1962, right after Marilyn Monroe’s de...

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The Arnolfini Portrait

The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan Van Eyck has baffled art historians ever sinc...

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The Garden of Earthly Delights

Over the half-millennium since Hieronymus Bosch painted it, The Garden of E...

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Georgia O'Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe was a 20th-century American painter and pioneer of America...

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Frida Kahlo's 'The Two Fridas’

Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón was a Mexican painter known for her...

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Monet's Water Lilies

Claude Monet is often criticised for being overexposed, too easy, too obvio...

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The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

By the mid 17th century, the art being produced in Catholic countries had b...

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Michelangelo's David: Great Art Explained

Michelangelo was the first superstar artist. He was a sculptor, a painter,...

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The Scream: Great Art Explained

Between 1863 when Munch was born and the years before the first world war,...

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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci

Who is Mona Lisa? Is it a self-portrait? Why doesn't she have eyebrows? Is...

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Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night

Vincent van Gogh was a largely self-taught artist who didn’t pick up a pain...

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The Great Wave by Hokusai

In 1639 Japan closed its borders and cut itself off from the outside world....

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