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Another piece that stood out is junior Elena Mer's untitled oil painting of a toilet that appears to be in the middle of a room, diagonally facing a couch that is almost entirely cut off by the border of the canvas. Although realistically painted in muted grays, blues and...
In another painting from 1878, the "Portrait of a Little Girl," Cassatt goes even further with her color experimentations. This rather large painting employs one of Cassatt's most typical subjects: a young child engaged in a natural activity--in this case, lounging informally on a comfortable blue chair. While...
Woven together with haunting languge and a bizarre story line, Ocean Sea centers around four lost souls staying at a seaside inn, each hoping that the ocean's therapeutic power will heal their spiritual wounds. The characters are a mixture of precocious children and wizened adults who all offer trite...
By those in the court, some of Dosso's images must have been read as comments on the duke's relaxations. Jupiter, Mercury, and Virtue, circa 1523-24, is Dosso's praise of painting. He translates it to Parnassus, where the god Jupiter sits before a canvas, his administrative thunderbolt...
"It is, I think, a tragedy, and no more the occasion for retrospective moral judgments than any other biographical canvas should be," Guralnick writes, switching quickly from slowdown to full stop. "I know of no sadder story." Any of the black bluesmen Guralnick loves and writes about so well could...