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Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is the Japanese artist best known in the Western world, primarily because of his iconic images known as The Great Wave and Red Fuji, both of which are in LACMA’s collection. In Japan, Hokusai was the greatest printmaker and painter between 1800 and 1850. http://bit.ly/1DCUPxc

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Chéri Samba

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In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France’s greatest artists and authors. His footage of Auguste Rodin, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and other luminaries in their twilight years appeared in his first cinematic work, a 22-minute silent film called Ceux de Chez Nous (Those of Our Land).

Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years

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The perfect #ThrowbackThursday for art lovers!

Honoré Daumier -- Nadar Elevating Photography to the Height of Art, 1862.

(An interpretation about this image here).

#Honoré Daumier #Daumier #Nadar #art #picture

Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window -- Johannes Vermeer

1657, oil on canvas, 83 x 64,5 cm, Gemäldegalerie, Dresden

#Johannes Vermeer #Vermeer #1657 #oil on canvas #Gemäldegalerie

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Maxims

"If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream." - Rene Magritte

(by the way, this is not a pipe)

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New Yorkers, now’s your chance to see this wonderful painting at MoMA! Angelenos, don’t fret—it will be back soon.

René Magritte,The Treachery of Images (This is Not a Pipe) (La trahison des images [Ceci n’est pas une pipe]), 1929, purchased with funds provided by the Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison Collection,© René Magritte Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris