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The Art of Seeing – Explore Works from Philadelphia's Museum of Art and Rodin Museum

Painting is silent poetry. – Plutarch

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    20 Jun 2020 Art / Art History / Paintings

    It’s Time to Drain the Sarcophagus – Pierre Bonnard’s Paintings of Marthe de Méligny (Bonnard, Part Two)

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    1 May 2020 Art / Art History / Paintings

    Absence and the Possibility of Return – Painter Pierre Bonnard (Bonnard, Part One)

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    14 Feb 2020 Art / Art History / Sculpture

    “It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them.” – Constantin Brâncuşi

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    1 Jan 2020 Art / Art History / Sculpture

    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 […]

    18 Apr 2019 Art / Paintings

    Alone, Quiet, and Gloriously Free – Matisse’s Portrait of Mlle. Yvonne Landsberg

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    30 Dec 2018 Paintings

    The Hissing Paintbox – Painter Vasily Kandinsky

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    Authors

    Meighan Maley is a Guide at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Rodin Museum in Philadelphia, PA, USA.

    Richard Di Via retired from teaching in 2017 where he taught Eastern & Western Philosophy and the Humanities of European Medieval & Renaissance Culture. He is currently on a leave of absence from the Philadelphia Museum of Art and living in Mexico.

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