centuriespast:

Edgar Degas (1834–1917)
Self-Portrait
Black chalk on paper

The Morgan Library

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thegetty:

Tommaso di Folco Portinari

~Hans Memling 

c. 1470

Oil on wood

44.1 x 33.7 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, New York, United States

The naturalism of Northern Renaissance portraits stunned Italian artists, who are said to have remarked that these paintings had “everything but actual breathing.”

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hellogiggles:

Great rules to love by!

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abstractboho:

greenport

Unknown Horizons: Photos by Oystein Sture Aspelund

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cavetocanvas:

Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819

Things to think about when studying:

• What historical event does Géricault depict?
• How does he use composition and other formal elements to heighten the drama of the work?

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When we view a work of art, we add our own brush strokes of memory — finishing a creative process that, until then, is incomplete.

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