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Jan. 27 Art Minute: Gustave Courbet, The Trellis
Summer flowers are the heart of this painting. Full-blown, they surge across the surface, engulfing the young woman whose dress is even printed wit…
Jan. 20 Art Minute: Henri Fantin-Latour, Flowers and Fruit
This canvas was painted in June when hydrangeas, ranunculus, and roses are all in bloom. Henri Fantin-Latour’s characteristic diffused light enve…
Jan. 13 Art Minute: Judit Reigl, Art of the Fugue (Art de la fugue)
"I paint where I live and my implement is my body."
After escaping her native Hungary from behind the Iron Curtain in 1950, Judit Reigl settled in P…
Jan. 6 Art Minute: Tiffany Furnaces, Louise Comfort TIffany, designer, Vase
As artist, designer, and tastemaker, Louis Comfort Tiffany altered the course of American decorative arts in many fields, including stained glass, …
Dec. 30 Art Minute: Stine Bidstrup, Architectural Glass Fantasies Series–Object No. 23
Stine Bidstrup’s Architectural Glass Fantasies are inspired by the mountainous landscape in Bergen, Norway, as well as the theories of German w…
Dec. 23 Art Minute: Giovanni Paolo Panini, Ruins with the Farnese Hercules
The ruins of ancient Rome were both revered and longed for in 18th-century Europe, as though the legacy of Rome was weathering away with these crum…
Dec. 16 Art Minute: Takashi Murakami, Oval
Takashi Murakami is the best known member of a generation of Japanese Pop artists who emerged in the 1990s. This project features a cartoon-like ch…
Dec. 9 Art Minute: Hector Guimard, Fireplace
In Paris, the sweeping curves and natural forms of Hector Guimard's Art Nouveau designs are seemingly everywhere, especially on his famous cast iro…
Dec. 2 Art Minute: Judy Hill, Lace Dress
Judy Hill's primary focus in her work is on self-portraiture, as seen in this example. Her autobiographical figures are similar in their resemblanc…
Nov. 25 Art Minute: Aleksandra Stoyanov, Silence
The colors found in the landscape of northern Israel inspire the woven tapestry work of Aleksandra (Sasha) Stoyanov, who immigrated there in 1990.…