Daily Artwork — “View of Toledo, El Greco, c1599”
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“One of only two surviving landscapes by El Greco, View of Toledo is among the best known depictions of the sky in western art. At the time it was painted, it was rare to portray an isolated landscape scene, making El Greco the first landscape artist in the history of Spanish art. It is not a true representation of the landscape of Toledo, however. Although the castle is in the correct place, the rest of the buildings are not truly represented in location or distance to each other. The painting is specifically mentioned in the movie “V for Vendetta,” in which the main character Evey Hammond directs her captor’s eyes toward the painting.” (WikiArt)
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Tags: analysis, art, critique, el Greco, landscape, mannerism, painting, Spain
Daily Artwork — “Hip, Hip, Hurrah!, Karel Appel, 1949”
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1949 — Hip, Hip, Hurrah! (Hiep, hiep, hoera!). Oil paint on canvas. Art Informel style. Karel Appel (1921-2006). Tate Modern, London, UK.
“The title of Hip, Hip, Hoorah! was intended to celebrate the artistic freedom from tradition achieved by the CoBrA group. The figures are hybrid creatures, combining human attributes with animal or bird-like features. Appel thought of them as ‘people of the night’, and so gave them a dark background. The bright colours and child-like imagery are typical of CoBrA. Appel often took inspiration from children’s drawings, believing that ‘the child in man is all that’s strongest, most receptive, most open and unpredictable’.” (WikiArt)
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Tags: analysis, art, art informel, critique, informalism, Karel Appel, painting
Daily Artwork — “Strike, Mihaly Munkacsy, 1895”
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1895 — Strike. Oil paint on canvas. Realism style. Mihaly Munkacsy (1844-1900).
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Tags: analysis, art, critique, Hungary, Mihaly Munkascy, painting, realism, workers
Daily Artwork — “Across the Delaware, Robert Spencer, 1916”
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Tags: analysis, art, critique, Delaware River, impressionism, landscape, New Hope, painting, Pennsylvania, Robert Spencer
Daily Artwork — “Winter Landscape with Farmhouse, Esaias van de Velde, 1624”
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1624 — Winter Landscape with Farmhouse. Oil paint on panel. Baroque style. Esaias van de Velde (1856-1911). Mauritshuis, Hague, Netherlands.
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Tags: analysis, art, baroque, critique, esaias van de velde, landscape, painting, winter
Daily Artwork — “Wild Autumn, Louis Van Lint, 1960”
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Tags: abstract art, abstract expressionism, analysis, art, critique, Louis Van Lint, painting, tachisme
Daily Artwork — “The Chess Players, Thomas Eakins, 1876”
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Tags: analysis, art, chess, critique, games, painting, portrait, realism, Thomas Eakins
Daily Artwork — “Sympathy, Briton Riviere, 1877”
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Tags: academic art, academicism, analysis, art, Briton Riviere, child, critique, dog, girl, painting, portrait
Daily Artwork — “The Amazon, Marie Laurencin, 1923”
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Tags: analysis, art, critique, expressionism, Marie Laurencin, Metropolitan Museum of Art, painting, portrait
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