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The Gross Clinic. - Artist: Thomas Eakins. - Year: 1875. Philadelphia artist Thomas Eakins spent a year working on "The Gross Clinic," which he painted specifically for his hometown's 1876 Centennial Exhibition. The closely observed work depicts Dr. Samuel Gross and associates operating on a patient's leg.

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Show Me The Monet, 2005 Oil on canvas in artist's frame 143.1x143.4cm (56 3/8 x 56 1/2 inches) Unique, Signed Sotheby's London: 21 October 2020 GBP 7,551,600 / USD 9,968,112 Exhibited Crude Oils, London, October 2005 Show me the Monet is one of the most iconic paintings of Banksy's provocative oeuvre. It is an

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Artwork Explained #5: The Raft of the Medusa. Updated: Sep 22, 2020. This past Monday, after nearly four months of closures, the Louvre opened its doors to the public again. In honor of this reopening, I thought we'd take a deep dive into one of the most iconic paintings in the museum's collections (which also happens to be one of my favorite

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Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, print-maker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work. She is best known for her room-size tableaux of black cut-paper silhouettes. Walker has been the Tepper Chair in

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"A wall is a very big weapon. It is one of the nastiest things you can hit someone with." Banksy Explained UNOFFICIAL & UNAUTHORIZED From the Streets of Bristol to the Auction Blocks in NYC, The formidable Ascension of an Artist Named Banksy Prints Editions GDP Originals Murals Collectibles "Graffiti is one of the few

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Introduction Kara Elizabeth Walker (born November 26, 1969) is an American contemporary painter, silhouettist, printmaker, installation artist, filmmaker, and professor who explores race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity in her work.

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Salvador Dalí's "The Persistence of Memory". "The Persistence of Memory" by Salvador Dalí is one of the rare works of art that can be conjured with the mention of two simple words: melting clocks. Sarah Dotson. Aug 04, 2020.

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Banksy melds street-fighting passion and pacifist ardor in his image of a protester whose Molotov cocktail morphs into a bouquet. Pixelbully / Alamy. When Time magazine selected the British artist

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Pink Floyd's music was complex and challenging, and the group treated each album sleeve as an extension of their musical artistry.And it's arguable that the artwork for Wish You Were Here is the best example of that approach. According to its designer, Aubrey Powell, the whole concept of the images is "based on the band's relationship with major businesses in general, and their record

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Napalm, 2004 Editions: 150 signed, 500 unsigned 'Can't Beat That Feeling...' Napalm is probably one of the most poignant and striking print that Banksy created, cementing his position as one of the pioneering political contemporary artists. This artwork is a striking statement against the military-industrialist complex linking warfare with capitalism that Banksy is criticizing all

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Return of the Prodigal Son (1666-69) Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. One of Rembrandt's last paintings, it represents his finest interpretation of a Biblical scene - in this case the famous parable of the lost son from St Luke's gospel. Rubens (1577-1640) Samson and Delilah (1609-10) National Gallery, London.

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October 3, 2016. Brooklyn-based artist Eric Timothy Carlson is responsible for the design of the album packaging, murals, newspapers, lyric videos , and other materials surrounding Bon Iver 's

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On 5 October 2018, a 2006 framed Girl with Balloon on canvas was auctioned at Sotheby's London and sold for GBP 1,042,000, a record high for the artist. Moments after the closing bid, the artwork began to self-destruct by means of a hidden mechanical paper shredder that Banksy had built into the bottom of the frame.

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Excited as they were to discover that a brand new David Bowie album is on the way, a fair number of his fans raised an eyebrow when they saw the cover for the upcoming 'The Next Day,' due March 12

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Julie Mehretu is a contemporary artist whose complex abstract landscapes explore humanity's connectedness through identity and place. Her multi-layered and chaotic mark-making considers the cumulative effects of urban sociopolitical change of specific places over time. In this article, we take a closer look at the life and work of Julie

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Summary of Olafur Eliasson. A noted member of the Social Practice movement, Olafur Eliasson injects his work with a universal conscience that catapults art outside of its normal confines and challenges the way we inhabit the world. With each endeavor, he asks people to fully embody their human experience by expanding their feelings of self into

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