In the depth of its grain, through all its polish …. – Furnishing Mahogany
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The Spanish Old Masters and A Rebellious Bird – Édouard Manet, Part Two
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It’s Time to Drain the Sarcophagus – Pierre Bonnard’s Paintings of Marthe de Méligny (Bonnard, Part Two)
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Absence and the Possibility of Return – Painter Pierre Bonnard (Bonnard, Part One)
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A Sculpture’s Journey to Hell and Back – Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss & The Process of Indirect Carving
Images and text correlate best when viewed on a wide screen. ◊ When first exhibited in Europe, the U.S., and Japan in the early 1900s, the life-sized sculpture of Auguste Rodin’s The Kiss was perceived as so shamelessly erotic that it was screened off, covered with blankets, or put in a private room where it was […]
Marcel Duchamp Stripped Bare: A Journey through the Existential Process
(Marcel Duchamp with The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even. Photograph: Mark Kauffman/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image) “The spectator
Each Dewdrop on the Grass Reflects the Vastness of Moonlight – The Nature of Japanese Art, Part One
Images and text are best viewed on a wide screen. ◊ The art of seeing: two paintings of wisteria were made less than twenty years apart, one in America, the other in Japan. Lush and abundant, if you could pull the clustered blooms closer, it would require both hands. The scent, having been […]
“I tell my heart to go ahead.” – Artist Horace Pippin
Horace Pippin painted the memories that lingered. Some were terrifyingly painful. Others recalled the ease of a lazy Sunday morning breakfast. Of his approximately 130 works, the Philadelphia Museum of Art owns several, which include his first and his last paintings. It’s not a typical story: Pippin had no formal art training and created his […]
To Have and To Hold – Italian Renaissance Cassoni
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The Art of Seeing - Explore Works from Philadelphia's Museum of Art and Rodin Museum 
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