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[classicalcanvas]

Two Crabs (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Children on Slide

Artist: Andrew Turner (American, 1944-2001)

Date: By 1990

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, United States

[classicalcanvas]

Vincent's Bedroom in Arles (1889) by Vincent van Gogh

[20thcenturyartgallery]

The Ford

Artist: Robert Polhill Bevan (British, 1865–1925)

Date: 1918-1919

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, United States

[alphonse-mucha-paintings]

-Lily-

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Tulips

Artist: Henri Matisse (French, 1869–1954)

Date: 1914

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

[classicalcanvas]

Ruby (1899) by Alphonse Mucha

[spitblossoms]

[classicalcanvas]

Sunset on the Seine in Winter (1880) by Claude Monet

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Water Lilies

Artist: Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926)

Date: ca. 1914-1917

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

Description

Dark blossoms and bright leaves drift among the reflected clouds on the water’s surface. No horizon is in sight. In the 1880s and 1890s, Monet developed a small natural pond on his property at Giverny into an extensive water garden inspired by Japanese ukiyo-e prints. This garden functioned as a kind of outdoor studio where he ultimately painted some two hundred fifty pictures, among them several of his most iconic works. This example likely dates to the mid-1910s but betrays no hint of the First World War raging not far from Giverny.

[classicalcanvas]

The Tempest (1851) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[allegorypaintings]

The Harp of Erin

Artist: Thomas Buchanan Read (American, 1822-1872)

Date: 1867

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Description

Allegorical painting. The woman represents Ireland and she's chained to a rock which represents England.

[allegorypaintings]

Allegory of Astronomy, Urania

Artist: Francesco Cozza (Italian, 1605–1682)

Date: circa 1667

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

[allegorypaintings]

Incostanza, An Allegory of Fickleness

Artist: Abraham Janssens I (Flemish, 1575–1632)

Genre: Allegory

Date: c. 1617

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark

Description

The present painting shows “fickleness” in keeping with the era’s code books of symbols in art, where the semi-clad woman, the ever-changing moon, and crustaceans - capable of walking sideways - serve as markers for those of a mercurial temperament.

The artist, moved by a visual desire that we would now term voyeurism or fetishism, focuses intently on her breasts, which shine with a brightness even greater than that of the crescent-moon face she holds in her hand.

The breasts are associated with other feminine characteristics: with bodily matters, impulsivity, and the subconscious as well as with fertility and pregnancy.

The woman may be attractive, but she is also potentially dangerous. In contrast to the moon, the sun was typically a symbol of maleness and masculinity, i.e. of intelligence, will, exaltedness, and divinity.

[classicalcanvas]

Breakup of Ice, Lavacourt, Grey Weather (1880) by Claude Monet

[classicalcanvas]

Cliffs of Les Petites-Dalles (1880) by Claude Monet

[enchantedbook]

'The Serpent Seduces Eve' by Walter Crane, 1899.