Virtual gallery

A virtual gallery of incredible works of art observed by your soul: maybe some with your heart🎨✨

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Iris Flowers by Kawase Hasui (1929)

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Utagawa Kuniyoshi - Famous Heroes of the Kabuki Stage Played by Frogs (1875). 🖼️: Colored Woodcut Print. 🏛️: Library Of Congress (Washington D.C.). 📜: Utagawa Kuniyoshi was one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style. His artwork incorporated aspects of Western representation in landscape painting and caricature. These caricature prints or comic pictures (giga) were used to disguise actual actors and courtesans. Many of these symbolically and humorously criticized the shogunate and became popular among the politically dissatisfied public. The frogs are a perfect example of Kuniyoshi’s work and his sense of humor.  https://www.instagram.com/p/CnfxbklPpBy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Frank Bramley - When the Blue Evening Slowly Falls (1909) 90.8 x 76.8 cm (Oil on Canvas) (Prívate Collection). • Frank Bramley was an English Post-Impressionist painter who specialized in interiors and worked on combining natural and artificial light in his paintings. He was the pioneer of the “square-brush technique.” In this technique he used the flat of a square brush to lay the paint on the canvas in a jigsaw pattern of brush strokes, giving a particular vibrancy to the paint surface. The woman in the painting is thought to be Bramley’s wife, Katherine Graham, who was also an artist. She is probably sitting in the chair in their house at Orchard Cottage, which at the time was called Belle Vue Cottage. (en Private collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmNQDqKL6-v/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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• Paul Cézanne - The Bathers (1899 - 1904) 51.3 x 61.7 cm. • Paul Cézanne, the artist without whom Cubism would never be born, worked on the classic-for-art-history theme of The Bathers for seven years. Though clearly related to the works of Rubens or Titian, The Bathers is not a study for either of the monumental canvases of bather subjects that the artist left unfinished at his death; rather, it is an independent, exploratory work painted with a spritelier touch. For all its compositional complexity, it retains the lightness of a watercolor, with thin parallel strokes and dashes and areas of white-primed canvas showing through the paint. The most famous version, known as The Great Bathers is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art; today we present the one from the Art Institute of Chicago.  #paulcezanne #thebathers #1899 #1904 #cubism #artinstituteofchicago #watercolor #art #musem #ilustration #masterpiece #painted (en Art Institute of Chicago) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cixy3a_OTP7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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• Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius - A Blue Hyacinth in Paris (1892) 66 x 51.5 cm. • Gerda Roosval-Kallstenius was a Swedish painter who specialized in landscapes and scenes with figures. Here we present an unusually sensual and intimate depiction of the artist smelling a hyacinth. She holds the flower close to her chest in both hands and closes her eyes to fully focus on its fine smell. This self-portrait was created while Roosval-Kallstenius was living in Paris with her husband Gottfrid Kallstenius, who was also a painter. In her sketchbook from Paris, she noted: "Art - a species of free (=self-determining) human activity, which aims to reproduce or preserve a sensation perceived as 'beautiful'." It seems that in her self-portrait she has tried to preserve both the beauty of the hyacinth and its delightful fragrance. (en Private collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/CikYqsYrvRX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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• Parmigianino - Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1523-1524) 24.4 x 24.4 cm. • This artist, who came from Parma, is considered one of the most progressive painters in the first half of the 16th century in Italy. Why? Simply, Parmigianino’s work provides a transition from the Renaissance to Mannerism. “More like an angel than a man” is Giorgio Vasari’s (the Italian art historian and painter) description of Parmigianino in his artists’ lives of 1568, and thus in today's painting the 21-year-old presents himself to the viewer. Artist’s hand (actually his left hand, although it seems to be his right) is distorted but impressively enlarged in the foreground, but he excludes the depiction of his head from the optical effect of the convex mirror. The bare studio in the background, however, is reflected by the barber’s mirror, by this time already old-fashioned, with which the artist was working here. Another ingenious aspect is seen at the extreme right edge of the painting: a gilt frame, itself a part of the artwork that is currently being created on Parmigianino’s easel.  #art #parmigianino #portrait #1523 #1524 #musem #ilustration #16thcentury #mirror #italia #vienna (at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna) https://www.instagram.com/p/CigUWATPyxr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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• Sandro Botticelli - The Birth of Venus (1484 - 1486) One of the most famous works in art history depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully grown. The composition, with a central nude figure and winged beings in attendance, is an echo of a traditional iconography of the Baptism of Christ, marking the start of His ministry on earth. In a similar way, this scene marks the start of Venus's ministry of love, whether in a simple sense, or the expanded meaning of Renaissance Neoplatonism, which was the dominant intellectual system of late 15th-century Florence.  At the left we see the wind god Zephyr, who blows at Venus, with the wind shown by lines radiating from his mouth. He carries a young female, who is also blowing, but less forcefully. Both have wings. Vasari, the art historian, best known for his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, was probably correct in identifying her as Aura, the personification of a lighter breeze. At the right we see a female figure who is of the three Horae or Hours, Greek minor goddesses of the seasons and of other divisions of time, and attendants of Venus. The floral decoration of her dress suggests she is the Hora of Spring. #venus #sandrobotticelli #masterpiece #art #christ #god #godness #earth #neoplatonism #sculptor #renaissance #arte #ilustration #gallery (en Gallerie degli Uffizi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-1KeirotF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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James Smetham - The Mandolin (1866) 49.5 x 40.7 cm (Oil on Canvas). |James Smetham was an English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter and engraver, a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The Mandolin may be considered his masterpiece. In conception it bears all the hallmarks Rossetti. The half-length female figure presented close to the picture plane and lacking background perspective, richly attired and mesmerizing, characterized Rossetti’s oeuvre at this date. That makes sense, as between 1863 and 1868 Smetham was in the habit of spending every Wednesday in Rossetti’s studio in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, where they worked together.  The extent to which the picture may be a collaboration between the two artists is a moot point. A note on the reverse, dated 9 January 1933, states that the then owner was informed by Smetham’s widow that the picture was partially painted by Rossetti at the latter’s studio. The correspondence between the two artists reveals that Rossetti gave Smetham the utmost help and advice at this date and was concerned for his wellbeing. A postscript to a letter written by Rossetti to Smetham on 18 August 1866 reads "I hope the transaction for the mandolin picture turned out of some use." It is difficult to identify Rossetti's contribution to this painting, but it is undoubtedly beautiful.| #jamessmethan #mandolin #1866 #art #oiloncanvas #rossetti #museum #oilpainting #arte #ilustration (en Private collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChJE9TALq7X/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Kyriak Kostandi - Geese (1913) 45.5 x 35.8 (Oil on Canvas). Kyriak Kostandi was a prominent Ukrainian painter of Greek descent and an art scholar. A member of the Russian Realist artistic movement Peredvizhniki (literally, Itinerants), he also created several Impressionist paintings; today's Geese are a good example. Kostandi was a representative of the Society of South-Russian Artists founded by Odesa painters in 1890. In that year he abandoned the monochrome color gamut of the Peredvizhniki in favor of the bright painterly idiom in which the sunlight with its rich color reflexes became the determinative factor. #kyriakkostandi #geese #1913 #russian #ukraine #monochromatic #artists #art #color #ilustration #arte #oiloncanvas #musem #moiseumart (en National Art Museum of Ukraine) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgdHpURrXRY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Luis Ricardo Falero

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Gustave Courbet - Study of a Nude Man (early 1840s) 73.7 x 84.1 cm (Oil on Canvas). Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an important example to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. It all gave him an opinion of a leading scandalmonger in the art world. But before all that happened, Courbet was studying art like everyone in his epoch. In a very traditional way. One of the parts of the student's curriculum then was painting nudes, to learn how to paint the human body. This training exercise is thought to have been painted by the young Courbet shortly after his arrival in Paris in 1839, when he studied for several months with baron Charles de Steuben (1788–1856) and then at the Académie Suisse. In an era when themes drawn from antiquity and the Bible stood at the head of an established hierarchy of subjects, the successful rendering of the unclothed male body was a benchmark of an artist’s formation. Few such works from Courbet’s earliest years survive, and the origins of this painting remain obscure. #gustavecourbet #nudesart #1840 #paris #french #museum #artist #art #painting #romanticism (en The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgVOJutLWha/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Roses of Heliogabalus (1888) 132.7 x 214.4 cm (Oil On Canvas) Prívate Collection Type: History. ° • The Roses of Heliogabalus depicts the young Roman emperor Elagabalus (203–222 CE) hosting a banquet, being swamped by drifts of pink rose petals falling from a false ceiling above. The youthful emperor, wearing a golden silk robe and tiara, watches the spectacle from a platform behind them, with other garlanded guests. A woman plays the double pipes beside a marble pillar in the background, wearing the leopard skin of a maenad, with a bronze statue of Dionysus, based on the Ludovisi Dionysus, in front of a view of distant hills. The painting depicts a (probably invented) episode taken from the Augustan History. Although the Latin refers to "violets and other flowers," Alma-Tadema depicts Elagabalus smothering his unsuspecting guests with rose petals. The original reference is this: "In a banqueting-room with a reversible ceiling he once buried his guests in violets and other flowers, so that some were actually smothered to death, being unable to crawl out to the top." ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #art #history #privatecollection #private #painting #painters #1888 #oiloncanvas #heliogabalus #dionysus #flowers #petals (en Private collection) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFb7tLYj73j/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Robert Duncanson - Blue Hole (1851) 72.4 x 105.4 cm (Oil on canvas) Cincinnati Art Museum Type: Luminism. •This painting is often considered the artist’s finest work. Born to free black parents outside of Pittsburgh, Robert S. Duncanson moved to Cincinnati in about 1840 to begin his career as a serious landscape artist. Only miles away from the Confederate, slave-owning South, Duncanson managed to make a name for himself, eventually becoming nationally known and financially successful. The Blue Hole is an actual site on the Little Miami River, in what is today John Bryan State Park, just east of Dayton. This location was a popular spot for artists in the 19th century. Duncanson’s landscape shows the calm, mirrorlike blue waters of the pool surrounded by majestic trees and jagged rocks. The strong diagonals of the treetops lead the eye to the painting’s center point, where a group of bare white trees lay piled in the distance. The tranquility seen in Blue Hole may not be coincidental. Perhaps Duncanson was hinting at his own belief in a world free from racial hatred, where nature’s beauty helps man forget the troubles of everyday life. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• #art #luminism #cincinnati #museum #oiloncanvas #1851 #painting #painters (en Cincinnati Art Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFb5uqCjQVx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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• Władysław podkowiński - Children in the Garden (1892) 62 x 47 Cm (Oil on Canvas) National Museum in Warsawa Type: Impressionism• •In Children in the Garden, Podkowiński catches his host’s two sons watering a flowerbed at the family estate in the village of Chrzęsne. The boy with the watering can is six-year-old Tadeusz Kotarbiński, a future world-class philosopher, and behind him is two-year-old Mieczysław Kotarbiński, a future painter and interior designer. In composing the piece, the artist employs a favorite technique of filling the foreground with vegetation, of which he was a skilled observer. Constructed along a diagonal line, the painting hinges on a contrast of warm and cool hues, with the dominant golds and greens complemented by greys, violets, and light blues. Podkowiński presented the products of that summer’s outdoor painting sessions in the autumn, at the 1892 Salon of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts.• #art #impressionism #museum #ilustration #masterpiece #oiloncanvas #painters #painting #1892 #warsaw #childrenillustration #childreninthegarden (en Museum Nasional, Warsawa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFVf9ARj8jj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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John Singer Sargent - Nonchaloir (Repose) (1911) 64 x 76 cm (Oil on Canvas). I love Sargent's works! This was an American artist who had an exquisite lightness in depicting not only royalty and society, but people in general. Indeed, the artist became one of the most sought–after portraitists of the late Victorian era, but he eventually became exasperated by the whim and vanities of prominent sitters. By 1909 he had abandoned conventional portraiture to experiment with more imaginary fields. Here, we see Sargent's niece, Rose-Marie Ormond. In keeping with his newfound preference for informal figure studies, Sargent did not create a traditional portrait; rather, he depicted Rose-Marie as a languid, anonymous figure absorbed in poetic reverie. The reclining woman, casually posed in an atmosphere of elegiac calm and consummate luxury, seems the epitome of nonchalance—the painting's original title. Sargent seems to have been documenting the end of an era, for the lingering aura of fin-de-siècle gentility and elegant indulgence conveyed in Repose would soon be shattered by massive political and social upheaval in the early 20th century. #johnsingersargent #1911 #repose #oiloncanvas #rosemarie #atmosphere #arte #museum #ilustration #masterpiece #poetic #artist #moiseum https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf9npO0F8Sl/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sirin and Alkonost The Birds of Joy and Sorrow, 1896. By Viktor Vasnetsov (1848-1926)

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Cecilia Beaux - Sita and Sarita (1921) 113.3 x 83.8 cm (oil on canvas) National Gallery of Art Type: Impressionism Peering out from a dark background and jet-black fur, two gleaming eyes beguile the viewer in Sita and Sarita, chosen in honor of Black Cat Appreciation Day. Painted by American artist Cecilia Beaux, it is a portrait of her cousin Sarah gazing dreamily into the distance while languidly stroking a small black cat perched on her shoulder. Rather than having the cat nestled in Sarah's lap, it is at eye level with her, its black fur melding with her hair and contrasting sharply with Sarah's fair complexion. With its golden eyes fixed on the viewer, the cat virtually steals the scene.   This composition shows influences of Beaux's contemporaries—the rendering of Sarah’s white dress, with folds and shadows in pale blues, grays, and browns, harkens to works of Impressionist artist Mary Cassatt (who Beaux met while studying in Paris), while the limited color palette is a nod to James McNeill Whistler.  (en National Gallery of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFOI8-iDGLV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=