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Jean Tinguely was born on March 22, 1925, in Switzerland. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, known as metamechanic...

I like nice looking things and I like well written things. So I decided to combine the two here. Chagall painting I and the Village is very ...

I can't help but love the original German title: Die Zwitschermaschine. German is such a harsh, long winded language. Die Zwitschermasch...

The Persistence of Memory is a 1931 painting by Salvador Dali. It is one of his most recognizable works. The painting has been on display at...

Two Children are Threatened by a Nightingale is a 1924 painting of Max Ernst. It is oil on wood with wooden elements and can be found on dis...

The Mystery and Melancholy of the Street was completed in 1914 by Giorgio de Chirico. It is oil on canvas. We talked about this image in cla...

Fit for Active Service is a drawing by the 20th century German artist George Grosz. It was created between the years 1916 and 1917. It is co...

Hoch is recognized as a pioneer of photomontage. This photomontage was crafted from images and text printed in German newspapers. This colla...

I thought that I would just insert the essay that I wrote on Duchamp for French class two semesters ago. It sheds a little light on my lack ...

This piece was completed in 1916-1917. Arp claimed that in making this work, he tore pieces of paper and allowed them to remain where they f...

Three Musicians is the title of two collage and oil painting by Pablo Picasso. They were both completed in 1921. They exemplify the Syntheti...

Robert Delauny's 1911-1912 painting The Red Tower is a unique view of the Eiffel Tower. Robert Delaunay was a Cubist painter born in Par...

Vasily Kandinsky's Improvisation 28 is an oil painting completed in 1912. It is in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Ka...

Kachinas are stylized religious icons carved from cottonwood root and painted to represent figures from the mythology of the Hopi. These ...

The Kiss was painted by Gustav Klimt and is his most famous work. When The Kiss was painted Klimt was 45 and lived at home with his mom and ...

The Scream shows an agonized figure against a blood red sky. It was completed in 1893 by Edvard Munch. The enviornment of The Scream is ofte...

The Sleeping Gypsy is an oil painting by French artist Henri Rousseau. It was completed in 1897 and is one of the most recognizable pieces o...

Redon describes his work as ambiguous and undefinable: "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, ...

Moreau on abstraction: "I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human ...

The Night Cafe is an oil painting created in Arles in September 1888, by Vincent van Gogh. The cafe itself really existed: it was run by Jos...

Ophelia is a painting by the British artist Sir John Everett Millais. It was completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia , a charact...

Sardanapalus is an oil painting completed in 1827 by Eugene Delacroix. It is in the Louvre. Its focus is a large bed on which a nude is pros...

Insane Women is an oil painting completed in 1822 by Gericault. He did a series on the mental insane and this was included. He examined the ...

Saturn Devouring His Son depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus who ate his kids because he feared that they would one day become more p...

The etching was made by the Spanish painter and print maker Goya. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters is plate 43 of 80 sketches. It consi...

Ancient of Days is a name for God in Aramaic. It denotes the Creator's aspects of eternity combined with perfection. Ancient of Days is ...

The Nightmare is a 1781 oil painting by the Swiss artist Fuseli. Since its creation, it was remained his best known work. Interpretation had...

Clodion's career spanned the last decades of the ancient regime through the French Revolution and Napoleon's reign. He embraced his ...

The seventeenth-century painter Artemisia Gentileshchi was mistreated at the hands of an older male artist. The court eventually convicted h...

The Assumption of the Virgin is a fresco by the Italian late Renaissance artist Antonio da Correggio. It decorates the dome of the Cathedral...

The sculpture by the title of Chimera of Arezzo is one of the best known examples of Etruscan art. It was found in Arezzo, an ancient Etrusc...

The Laocoon Group is a monumental sculpture in marble. It is now housed in Rome. The statue shows the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons bei...

The Great Sphinx is a statues that is on the Giza Plateau on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It is the largest monolith statue in the wo...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is one of my favorite places in DC. It ranks just behind Java Green, an AMAZING vegan lunch spot, and laying u...

Kiefer's Nigredo was completed in 1984 and is housed in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Kiefer's landscapes show the centuries of co...

Tatlin's Tower is a monumental building envisioned by the Russian artist Tatlin. It was never build. It was planned to be erected in Pet...

How Lange described her experience: I saw and approached the hungry and desperate mother, as if drawn by a magnet. I do not re...

Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso. It was painted in response to the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian warplanes during the Sp...

Moai are monolithic figures carved from rock on the Polynesian island of Easter Island. Easter Island is in Chile. They were created between...

A Bisj Pole is an artifact used by the Asmat people of south-western New Guinea. Similar objects are found used by the people of the South P...

From Art and Politics Paper: Honore Daumier, a defender of the urban working class, created a lithograph entitled Rue Transnonain that had a...

From Art and Politics Paper: The Romantic spirit influenced all media during the early 19th century. Sculptors, just like the painters of th...

From Art and Politics Paper: In Liberty Leading the People Eugene Delacroix, another leading French Romantic artist, depicts the passion and...

From Art and Politics Paper: The French artist Theodore Gericault is one of the two French artists most closely associated with the Romantic...

From Art and Politics Paper: The Third of May is a Romantic work by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya. In the early 19th century, Romantic a...

The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting that was complete in 1807 by Jacques-Louis David. David was the official painter of Napoleon at thi...

The Death of Marat is a 1793 painting in the Neoclassical style by Jacques-Louis David. It is one of the most famous images of the French Re...

The Oath of the Horattii is a 1784 painting by Jacques-Louis David, before the French Revolution. It depicts the Roman salute and grew to be...

The Death of General Wolfe is a 1771 painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West. It depicts the final moments of British general Ja...