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This painting is also in the National Gallery of Ireland, it's amazing

If it's mostly dark and has some warm light in it, it's a Rembrandt. He painted the light.

I suck at drawing. Really. We did art and art history at school. We would have a class learning about a particular movement and then we would all have to try and draw a picture in that movement. The ONLY time I got a good grade was when we did Impressionism. I drew the tree outside our classroom. It according to my teacher was drawn in true impressionism style. All I did was take of my glasses and drew the tree as I saw it in my myopic state. Still it was the first time I got an A in an art class.

Michelangelo wanted to sculpt, not paint, and did the Sistine ceiling in the hopes of winning a commission to do a bunch of giant Vatican sculptures.

She was raped by another artist and put her assailant in this painting and in "Susanna and the Elders."

Who the heck are the people in the mirror? Are they supposed to represent the viewer(s)?

Jean-Honoré Fragonards "The Swing" (and even if you don't see it, it's full of erotic narratives)

Flora looking high, ngl.

I wish African artists would appropriate classical European Medieval art and call it "African Modernism," to call attention to Picasso's borrowing of traditional African artistic imagery and calling it modern Western art.

Those spindly legs always creeped me out!

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I do love this painting, but the caption is spot-on.

I love this. My favorite illustrated books when I was a kid, loved Madaline.

You have to wonder if some of these artists had ever seen a baby.

What? I just see flowers. ;=D

My favourite style

The term Rubenesque came from Paul Rubens the artist. As he have a love of painting fuller figured subjects, particularly women.

There is another version of the Mona Lisa in private hands. Google the public broadcasting special on this.

I don't mean to hate, but I just don't understand how this is considered art and has any value whatsoever.

I believe I have been in just such a Nativity play. 😂

Vermeer used a camera obscura to paint and then just did the equivalent of paint by numbers. See the documentary, "Tim's Vermeer."

There is an amazing Schiele at the DeYoung museum in SF.

The picture that hangs in so many (elderly) people's houses here that, when I was a child, I thought it came with houses.

I feel sorry for the little guy in the corner.

What a ridiculous scene! Have you ever been subjected to indoor bagpipes? They're unfathomably loud.

A woman actually gave him this idea but Duchamp got all the artistic credit.

Check out "Sunday on the Pot with George" pointillism painting in Boston's "Museum of Bad Art." It's online.

I'm the first to comment and I think that is cuz no one want's to admit that this baby is actually creepy lol

How come they censor the woman's breasts, but not the man's junk?

Or a Bob Ross. ;)

Should I be worried by the fact that I can see the bottle and fishes?

"Desert of Forbidden Art" is an incredible PBS documentary of the man who rescued over 40,000 modern art masterpieces and hid them in desert museum 1700 miles away during Stalin's purges!!!

Matisse was having age-related health problems at this point and started doing collages because he couldn't paint the traditional way.

The woman (Mary?) on the left looks like a really bored tour guide. "And here we have Jesus. He died. Moving on! We're walking,we're wlking..."

do you really censor boobs in a renaissance painting???

they arent boring; theyre all jacked an one guys about to be exposed