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‘Feel Art Again’ debuted in September and quickly became a reader favorite. Today let’s take a deep breath and recap every masterpiece the wonderful Andréa Fernandes has featured.
• Caspar David Friedrich’s “Two Men Contemplating the Moon”
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s “The Love Letter” and “Love Letters”
• Albrecht Dürer’s “Self-Portrait at 26″
• Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”
• Pablo Picasso’s “First Communion” (====>)
• Raphael’s “The Three Graces”
• Salvador Dali’s “The Persistence of Memory”
• Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun’s “Queen Marie-Antoinette and Her Children”
• Thomas Eakins’ “The Champion Single Sculls”
• Titian’s Portrait of Isabella of Portugal
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s “Alfred Sisley and His Wife”
• Johannes Vermeer’s “Allegory of the Catholic Faith”
• William Hogarth’s “An Election Entertainment”
Andréa will be back with a new painting on Tuesday. If you have any suggestions for her, leave a comment. She’ll see what she can do.
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This was a good idea: recapping the past several weeks’ worth of paintings and information. I realized I’d missed one or two. I look forward to next Tuesday’s post but hope you’ll recap every now and then like this.
posted by Therese on 11-8-2007 at 12:16 pm
Andrea - Can you write a post on one of El Greco’s paintings? I’ve always thought his style was unique and instantly recognizable, and I’d love to know more about him.
posted by Erin on 11-8-2007 at 12:50 pm
Andrea, I’d like to know more about Maxfield Parrish or Boughereau. Thanks for the knowledge!
posted by Johnny Cat on 11-8-2007 at 2:26 pm
popular emblems and how they related to 17th cen dutch works are always amusing. . . those paintings are a lot more salacious than they seem! sepecifically Jan Steen’s oyster paitings. . .
posted by jzimm on 11-8-2007 at 3:16 pm
I’ll look into El Greco, Maxfield Parrish, Boughereau, and Jan Steen’s oyster paintings. Thanks for the suggestions!
posted by Andréa on 11-8-2007 at 4:57 pm
Expand the realm of art to include sculpture and give us more details about Michelanglo’s Pieta, an achingly serene piece.
posted by Jane on 11-8-2007 at 7:03 pm
I’d like to see more art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Maybe some Jasper Johns or Robert Motherwell?
posted by Molly on 11-9-2007 at 10:15 am
How about an abstract? Wassily Kandinsky is a favorite artist of mine. I’d love to understand what (if anything, I suppose) is behind them.
posted by Trena on 11-9-2007 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ll research them all and see if we can use any of them.
posted by Andréa on 11-11-2007 at 9:13 pm