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Five Paintings That Changed The Way I Look At Art

Artworks that opened up new ways of experiencing the world — Sometimes a painting or a sculpture breaks through your conscious mind and leaves an impression that lasts for years, perhaps even a lifetime. I’ve chosen five paintings that had that effect on me and ultimately changed the way I look at art. …

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Five Paintings That Changed The Way I Look At Art
Five Paintings That Changed The Way I Look At Art

4 days ago

Why this Painting Never Ceases to Fascinate

Blue and Green Music by Georgia O’Keeffe — It can sometimes be difficult at first to get a grip on an abstract painting. Abstractions make their presence known through colours and shapes, through a type of gestural theatre, a dance, a body language. Yet without definite symbolism to pin meaning to, paintings like this can be perplexing objects…

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Why this Painting Never Ceases to Fascinate
Why this Painting Never Ceases to Fascinate

6 days ago

4 Artists That Deserve Your Attention

People and places captured brilliantly — Art history often focusses on a small selection of well known names. Yet there are thousands of other artists that deserve our attention just as much. So here are four very different artists whose work you may not know and who are worth discovering more about. Agnes Goodsir Agnes Noyes Goodsir was…

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4 Penetrating and Perceptive Artists That Deserve Your Attention
4 Penetrating and Perceptive Artists That Deserve Your Attention

May 15

I Look At This Painting Everyday

Edward Hopper’s perfectly painted dilemma, yet I cannot say what it is exactly — For a few years now, I’ve had a postcard of this painting tacked to my study wall. It’s called Pennsylvania coal town and it was made by Edward Hopper in 1947. Whenever I stop my work and look up at this painting, I can’t help but feel that Hopper painted…

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I Look At This Painting Everyday
I Look At This Painting Everyday

May 12

Does Art Have an Intrinsic Value?

Or do beauty and taste have a history? — Every discipline has to justify itself. When it comes to art, is its value determined by the wider culture — and therefore subject to constant change and revision? Or is there an intrinsic value to art, irrespective of time and place? The appreciation and…

Art

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Does Art Have an Intrinsic Value?
Does Art Have an Intrinsic Value?

May 10

What Exactly Did Whistler’s Mother Think of her Son’s Portrait?

Loving depiction or austere judgement? — You have to wonder what James Whistler’s mother thought of her son’s portrait of her. In this famous painting, we see a woman sitting alongside a wall, her hands clutching a lace handkerchief. On her face she wears an expression of interminable patience. Her eyes are wide and her brow…

Art

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What Exactly Did Whistler’s Mother Think of her Son’s Portrait?
What Exactly Did Whistler’s Mother Think of her Son’s Portrait?

May 6

Why this Extraordinary Painting Shows a Cruel Scientific Experiment

Joseph Wright’s ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’ — The first thing that draws my eye in this remarkable painting, made in 1768 by the British artist Joseph Wright, is the expression of the scientist — or the “natural philosopher” as he would have been called at the time.

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Why this Extraordinary Painting Shows a Cruel Scientific Experiment
Why this Extraordinary Painting Shows a Cruel Scientific Experiment

Published in Thinksheet

·May 4

Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars

When Love Conquers War — Sometimes art can teach us the most fundamental of lessons. The painting above shows Venus, the goddess of love and fertility. Next to…

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Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars
Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars

May 3

How to Pronounce the Names of These Famous Artists

And why it matters to say names correctly — How important are names? Or more to the point, how important is our ability to pronounce them correctly? For me, learning to get my tongue around the pronunciation of an artist’s name has made all the difference. Let me give an example… Anybody who has been to the Musée d’Orsay…

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How to Pronounce the Names of These Famous Artists
How to Pronounce the Names of These Famous Artists

Published in Thinksheet

·Apr 28

Why Does this Painting Show An Ostrich Egg Hanging From the Ceiling?

Hidden symbols in the Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca — What is immediately gripping about the Brera Madonna, painted by Piero della Francesca in around 1474, is the elegant sense of space the artist has created. The illusion is of an architectural apse, a small chapel with columns on either side and capped by an archway. The light is crisp…

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Why Does this Painting Show An Ostrich Egg Hanging From the Ceiling?
Why Does this Painting Show An Ostrich Egg Hanging From the Ceiling?
Christopher P Jones

Christopher P Jones

Art writer, critic, novelist, artist. See my links at https://linktr.ee/cpjones

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