Art Is Pretentious.

A young Croatian lad from Hell's Kitchen New York City with lotsa love for the past I've never lived.

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Originally published by The Illustrated London News: British artillery galloping on the road of Mons, winning against the Germans.

Portuguese magazine Ilustração Portugueza, No. 482, May 17 1915.

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SWIMMING POOL by Maria Svarbova

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New painting I’ve been working on. Not the greatest photo, but you get the idea. Happy with it so far. I think it may be almost finished.

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Plenilunio by Ercole Calvi

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Louvre museum by Forgemind ArchiMedia

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Hercules and Omphale.

Carlo Cignani. Italian 1628-1719. oil/canvas. painting in the process of being cleaned and restored.

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Stefan Bakałowicz

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Kaga-Yuzen dyeing

Ichiro Kakimoto

“Fukika (Peony)”

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Saved from howtopastel.com IAPS Interviews: Stephanie Birdsall, “Soft Light,” pastel on paper, 9 x 12 in 16w Zofia Jaworowska

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“Point Lobos Trees” by Guy Rose

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James Barry, The Education of Achilles, ca. 1772,

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Ellen Day Hale - Self-portrait - 1885

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William Edward Frost, The Three Graces

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Clémence van den Broeck (1843-1922)

A sculptor gets a visit in his studio

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Johannes Janson painted A Formal Garden in 1766.

Showing off hedges and trees, visitors and views, the piece serves both as a record of its owners’ wealth and a status symbol itself.

Interestingly, as the Getty points out, “the flower gardens in the foreground form a broderie parterre, literally ‘embroidery flower bed’; these gardens were often designed by the same artists who made drawings for bedspreads, bed hangings, and other items.”

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Apricot Tree in Bloom, 1888.

Vincent Willem van Gogh

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 Gustave Caillebotte