Paintings of people watching plays, by Daumier, Degas, Renoir, Mary Cassatt, and others.
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Paintings of scenes from plays by Degas, Seurat, Georges Clairin, and others.
Some artists not only spoke out against slavery and racism, but painted about it. Here’s a small selection of works by Turner, Eakins, Tanner, Biard and Morland.
From the early landscapes of Rubens and Dutch masters to the surrealist skyscapes of Paul Nash, introducing a history of painting the sky.
A brilliant watercolour painter as a student, he made a success of portraiture in Sweden and London. His early career to 1885.
The climax: Satan enters the serpent, and tempts Eve to eat the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. Adam and Eve are undone.
Was a primordial deity, attendant at Aphrodite’s birth, or her son by Ares/Mars? When did he get his bow and arrows? Answered in fine paintings.
Skyscrapers and human landscapes in New York City, tennis in Rhode Island, and Mardi Gras on Coney Island – and more.
A celebration for Independence Day, the fourth of July, with a selection of wonderful American landscape paintings.
Isn’t that a horrific example of racism: a white man standing on the head of a Black man? Not when you read the image carefully.
