November 2021

Claude Monet Self-Portrait with a Beret (1886)

Claude Monet

Claude Monet (November 14, 1840—December 5, 1926), born Oscar-Claude Monet, is the lodestar of Impressionism and a precursor of modernism in painting. His depictions of glimpses of nature are among the most famous worldwide. Life Monet chose not to pursue his father’s merchant’s business as he wanted to become an artist. His academic studies, supplemented …

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Slavs in their Original Homeland: Alphonse Mucha (1912)

Slavs in their Original Homeland: Alphonse Mucha (1912)

Slavs in their Original Homeland is a 1912 painting by Alphonse Mucha, an artist of the Czech and Central European Art Nouveau period who specialized in illustrations. Analysis of Slavs in their Original Homeland This painting, with the subtitle Between the Turanian Whip and the Sword of the Goths is the first in a series …

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