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Artist Antonio López García Title María Year 1972 Medium Pencil on Paper Dimensions 70 x 53.3 cm Location Private collection You pause when you see María, even though it’s just pencil on paper. It feels familiar, soft, uncanny. That coat—folded…
Text by Vincent DeLuise Author, Educator, Musician at amusicalvision.blogspot.com, Cultural Ambassador, Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Artist Andrea Mantegna Title Oculus Year c. 1465-1474 Medium fresco Dimensions diameter: 270 cm (106.2 in) Location Palazzo Ducale, Mantua What a wonder of the Rinascimento is this ceiling!…
Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner Title Peace – Burial at Sea Year exhibited 1842 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 87 x 86,7 cm Location Tate Britain, London A painting that feels like silence made visible. A pale sky meets calm…
Artist Otto Dix Title Portrait of a Prisoner of War Year 1945 Medium oil and tempera on cardboard Dimensions 82.5 x 67.5 cm Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar You don’t walk into Otto Dix’s Portrait of a Prisoner of War expecting…
Artist Nicolas de Staël Title Portrait d’Anne Year 1953 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 140 x 99 cm Location Unterlinden Museum, Colmar Although he is usually considered as an abstract painter, Nicolas de Staël is represented in the Unterlinden museum’s…
Artist Alberto Giacometti Title The Chariot Year 1950 Medium Painted bronze on wood base Dimensions 57 x 26 x 26 1/8″ (144.8 x 65.8 x 66.2 cm), base 9 3/4 x 4 1/2 x 9 1/4″ (24.8 x 11.5 x…
Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat Title Moses and the Egyptians Year 1982 Medium Acrylic and oil stick on canvas Dimensions 185.9 x 137 x 4 cm Location Guggenheim Bilbao In the early 1980s, Jean-Michel Basquiat emerged as one of the most groundbreaking…
Artist Robert Morris Title Untitled Year 1965, reconstructed 1971 Medium Mirror glass and wood Dimensions Each cube: 914 x 914 x 914 mm – overall display dimensions are variable Location Tate, London Morris’s Minimalist sculptures of the mid-1960s consist of rigorously pared down…
Artist Diego Velázquez Title Rokeby Venus Year c. 1647–1651 Medium oil on canvas Dimensions 122 cm × 177 cm (48 in × 70 in) Location National Gallery, London. You don’t forget the first time you see her. Reclined, bare, her…
Text by Vincent DeLuise Author, Educator, Musician at amusicalvision.blogspot.com, Cultural Ambassador, Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Artist Leonardo da Vinci Title Birch Copse Year 1500 Medium Red Chalk on Paper Dimensions 19 cm x 15 cm Location Royal Collection, Windsor Only Leonardo da Vinci could…
Artist Andrew Wyeth Title Winter Carnival Year 1985 Medium drybrush, watercolor, gouache and pencil on paper Dimensions 22 ¼ x 24 in. (56.5 x 61 cm.) Location Private collection Born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, in 1917, Andrew Wyeth learned to…
The Sacred Portrait – A Byzantine Masterwork Saint John the Baptist Icon from Hilandar Monastery (14th Century) Encountering the 14th-century icon of Saint John the Baptist from Hilandar Monastery is a moment that transcends mere observation. The prophet’s visage, rendered…