Anger — Erik Thor Sandberg
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View ArticleIn the Jungle, Florida — Winslow Homer
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View ArticleParadise — Lucas Cranach the Elder
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View ArticlePortrait of Leo Tolstoy — Mikhail Nesterov
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View ArticleIsaac van Amburgh and His Animals — Edwin Henry Landseer
Tagged: Animals, Art, Edwin Henry Landseer, Isaac van Amburgh and his Animals, menagerie, Painting
View ArticleRobert Hughes’s Goya Biography (Book Acquired, 9.21.2012)
I’d been wanting to read a biography of Goya for some time now. For a few years now, his art has come occupy a strange space in the back of my subconscious mind—all the pain and violence and horror of...
View ArticleThe Day After — Edvard Munch
Tagged: Alcohol, Art, Evard Munch, girl, Painting, the day after
View ArticleRead “The Oval Portrait,” a Short Short Story by Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe’s tale “The Oval Portrait” — The chateau into which my valet had ventured to make forcible entrance, rather than permit me, in my desperately wounded condition, to pass a night in the...
View ArticleBooks #3 — Dmitry Samarov
(Read my interview with Dmitry Samarov) Tagged: Art, Books, Dmitry Samarov, Painting, Reading
View ArticleApocalypse Is Postponed — Florin Ciulache
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View ArticleAnting — George Boorujy
(More /Read our interview with George Boorujy) Tagged: Art, birds, George Boorujy, Naturalism, Painting
View ArticleKarel Franta’s Marvelous Fairy Tale Illustrations
My mother dropped off several boxes of books, comics, and papers I hadn’t delved into in probably 20 years—stuff I’d left at my parents’ house, intending to retrieve at some point. One book I...
View Article“Art”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Art” by Ralph Waldo Emerson Because the soul is progressive, it never quite repeats itself, but in every act attempts the production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the useful...
View ArticleCrashed Aeroplane — John Singer Sargent
Tagged: Crashed Aeroplane, John Singer Sargent, Painting
View ArticlePortrait of Tony Soprano as Napoleon Bonaparte Accompanied by His Steed Pie-O-My
Tagged: Art, Painting, Pie-O-My, Sopranos, Tony Soprano
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