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Random Art with Beth

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Top of the Day: College of Animals , 1655 Today's Artwork: The Great Pine - Paul Cézanne , 1890 - 1896 -- link -- Christmas Morning, Breakfast - Horace Pippin (American, b.1888, d.1946) , 1945 -- link -- A Pensive Girl - COROT, Jean-Baptiste Camille , 1865/1870 -- link -- Still Life with Flask of Wine - Piero Marussig , c. 1930-35 -- link -- College of Animals , 1655 -- link -- Spring Rain - John Sloan , 1912/1912 -- link -- Life by the River - Liu Kang , 1975 -- link -- Pompeian bath - Niccolo Cecconi , post 1835 -- link -- In addition to these we also did a peek into Marsden Hartley.​

Random Saturday

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Top of the Day: Arrival of the Stagecoach - Carl Spitzweg , 1859 Today's Artwork: Arrival of the Stagecoach - Carl Spitzweg , 1859 -- link -- Spring - Thomas Wilmer Dewing , 1890 -- link -- No title - Per Kirkeby , 2006 -- link -- Etaples Fisher Folk - Henry Ossawa Tanner , 1923/1923 -- link -- Cascade in a Rocky Landscape - Courbet, Gustave , about 1872-1874 -- link -- Princess Eudoxia before the Tomb of Saint Stephen - Vergós Group , 1495-1500 -- link -- Dutch landscape - Eugen Jettel , 1874 -- link -- Etter badet - Auguste Renoir , ca. 1886 -- link -- Still Life with Apricotes and Butterflies - Jan Mortel , 1683 -- link -- ​

Lots of Crazy Still Lifes

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Top of the Day: Still Life - Qwek Wee Chiew , c. 1970s Today's Artwork: Rocks in the Forest - Paul Cézanne , 1890s -- link -- Admiral Reuter - Karel van Mander III , 1656 -- link -- The Cigar makers - Gonzalo Bilbao , 1915/1915 -- link -- Hudson River Series: Deer - Don Nice (b. 1932) , 1975 -- link -- Cain killing Abel - Adriaen de Vries , 1622 -- link -- Still Life - Qwek Wee Chiew , c. 1970s -- link -- Landscape with Dancing Satyrs and Nymphs - Claude Lorrain , 1646 -- link -- The Excursionist - Pierre-Auguste Renoir , circa 1888 -- link -- Still Life with Turkey Pie - Pieter Claesz , 1627 -- link -- Catani Gardens - Sidney Nolan , 1945 -- link -- Farmhouse at Balestrand - Amaldus Nielsen , 1865 -- link -- The still life shown isn't one of the crazy ones...but it is so soothing I had to select it.  Not only did we see the still lifes listed here....we saw some CRAZY ones in the museums when we wandered around.

Katya Medvedeva!

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A Dance Pattern, 2002    Google Arts & Culture link with 191 pieces of art -- link --  Article about Katya Medvedeva -- link --  Artist's life & statement (found by Michelle!) -- link --  Website (found by Michelle) -- link -- 

Random Art with Beth

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Top of the Day: The Marchesa Casati - Augustus Edwin John , 1919 Today's Artwork: Winter Landscape - Joose de Momper II (the Younger) , circa 1625 - 1630 -- link -- The Pink Peach Tree - Vincent van Gogh , 1888 -- link -- A Young Man - Piero di Cosimo , c.1500 -- link -- Red Sunset on the Dnieper - Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi , 1905–8 -- link -- Red Sunset on the Dnieper - Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi , 1905–8 -- link -- Mrs. George Watson - John Singleton Copley , 1765 -- link -- Folio of Calligraphy - Calligrapher: Mir Ali Haravi , 16th century -- link -- Oak Tree by the Elbe in Winter - Johan Christian Dahl , 1853 -- link -- Rooftops in the Snow (snow effect) - Gustave Caillebotte , 1878 -- link -- Seacost Bindy in Logonna Daoulas - Eugèn Boudin , 1871 -- link -- The Marchesa Casati - Augustus Edwin John , 1919 -- link -- A little tidbit about the Marchesa Casati....she died MASSIVELY in debt.​