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Picasso 1937

Gernica

large mural shows the suffering of people wrenched by violence and chaos.

uses a palette of gray, black, and white

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Picasso

The Old Guitarist, late 1903–early 1904

Blue Period

bent and sightless man holds his large, round guitar close to him; its brown body is the painting’s only shift in color. The elongated, angular figure of the blind musician relates to Picasso’s interest in the history of Spanish art and, in particular, the great sixteenth-century artist El Greco

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Pablo Picasso

Absinthe Drinker

1901

lonely heroine sits at a table in a cafe, the background a dirty-red wall.

On the back of the painting, concealed beneath heavy overpainting in blue and yellow, is a woman’s head, probably a fragment of a work which did not satisfy the artist.

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Picasso

Family of Saltimbanques

Rose Period

largest that Picasso painted

circus troupe

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Picasso

The Two Acrobats with a dog

1905

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Gouache on board

Rose period

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Picasso

Two Youths

1905

Oil on canvas

Rose period

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Picasso

1907

Oil on canvas

Prague, Narodni Gallery

“African”

Selfportrait

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Picasso

Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon)

1907

Oil on canvas

New York, Museum of Modern Art

“African”

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Picasso

Houses on the Hill

1902

Analytical Cubism

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Guitar, Sheet music and Wine glass

Pablo Picasso

Original Title: Guitare, feuille de musique et verre

Date: 1912

Style: Synthetic Cubism

Period: Cubist Period

Genre: still life

Media: collage, ink, paper

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Seated Harlequin

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Pablo Picasso

Date:1901

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Oil on canvas, lined and mounted to a sheet of pressed cork

Construction Period

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The Pan Pipes,

1923 by Pablo Picasso

Classical Period

Male figures appear to have been carved like Classical Homeric statues from the hunks of stone behind them and then imbued with life, possibly by the music from the magical pan pipes. The thin black lines around their frame and shadowing helps lift them off the picture surface to complete the sense of chiselled separation.

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Nude in an Armchair

Artist:

Pablo Picasso

Date:

Horta de Ebro (present-day Horta de Sant Joan), summer 1909

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Oil on canvas

Period Cubism/ and Surrealism

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The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dalí
(Spanish, 1904–1989)

  1. Oil on canvas
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Metamorphisis of Narcissus

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Salvador Dalí 1904–1989

ORIGINAL TITLE

Métamorphose de Narcisse

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Oil paint on canvas

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The Sacrement of the Last Supper

Artist: Salvador Dali

Location: National Gallery of Art

Medium: Oil paint

Created: 1955

Period: Surrealism

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Crucifixtion

Artist: Salvador Dali

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Genre: History painting

Created: 1954

Medium: Oil paint

Subject: Crucifixion, Crucifix

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Hokusai

Printmaking by Hokusai, 1832

The Great Wave off Kanagawa, also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is a woodblock print by the Japanese ukiyo-e artist Hokusai

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The Death of General Wolfe is a well-known 1770 painting Benjamin West depicting the death of British General James Wolfe at the 1759 Battle of Quebec during the French and Indian War.

Artist: Benjamin West

Location: National Gallery of Canada

Genre: History painting

Period: Neoclassicism

Created: 1771

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Death on the Pale Horse

Painting

Artist: Benjamin West

Genre: Christian art

Created: 1796

Period: Neoclassicism

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Paul Revere

1768
John Singleton Copley (American, 1738–1815)

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Oil on canvas

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John Singleton Copley (1738–1815)

Title: Portrait of John Hancock (1737-1793)

Date1765

Mediumoil on canvas

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Watson and the Shark is a 1778 oil painting by American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba.

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Location: National Gallery of Art

Medium: Oil on canvas

Period: Romanticism

Created: 1778

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The Death of the Earl of Chatham is the title of a 1781 oil-on-canvas painting by Boston-born American artist John Singleton Copley. Wikipedia

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Created: 1779–1780

Medium: Oil paint

Genre: History painting

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A Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Henry Pelham)

Painting by John Singleton Copley, 1765

Artist: John Singleton Copley

Period: Neoclassicism

Created: 1765

Genre: Portrait

Media: Canvas, Oil paint

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The Lansdowne portrait is an iconic oil-on-canvas portrait of George Washington, the first President of the United States.

Artist: Gilbert Stuart

Location: National Portrait Gallery

Created: 1796

Medium: Oil on canvas

Genre: Portrait

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Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1, best known under its colloquial name Whistler’s Mother, is a painting in oils on canvas created by the American-born painter James McNeill Whistler in 1871.

Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Location: Musée d’Orsay

Period: Realism

Created: 1871

Genre: Portrait

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This was Whistler’s first published set of etchings. It includes etchings dating from 1857 and 1858, done in London, Paris, and on a trip to Alsace and along the Rhine into Germany in 1858, in company with Ernest Delannoy (d. 1860/1870).

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The ‘French Set’

‘Douze Eaux-Fortes d’après Nature’ (Twelve Etchings from Nature).

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Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl

Date completed: 1862

Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Subject: Joanna Hiffernan

Location: National Gallery of Art

Period: Impressionism

a woman in full figure standing on a white polar bear skin in front of a white curtain with a white lily in her hand

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Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket

Painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Artist: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Location: Detroit Institute of Arts

Created: 1872–1877

Medium: Oil paint

Dimensions: 60.3 cm × 46.6 cm (23.7 in × 18.3 in)

Periods: Impressionism, Modern art, Aestheticism, Tonalism

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John James Audubon’s Birds of America is a portal into the natural world. Printed between 1827 and 1838, it contains 435 life-sized watercolours of North American birds (Havell edition), all reproduced from hand-engraved plates, and is considered to be the archetype of wildlife illustration.

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Title: The American national game of base ball. Grand match for the championship at the Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N.J. / lith. of Currier & Ives.

Creator(s): Currier & Ives.,

Date Created/Published: New York : [Currier & Ives], c1866.

Medium: 1 print : lithograph.

Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-00600 (digital file from original print) LC-USZC2-3749 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-640 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.

Call Number: PGA - Currier & Ives–American national game of base ball (D size) [P&P]

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Currier and Ives

First People is a child friendly site about Native Americans and members of the First Nations. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, clipart, Native American Books, Posters, Seed Bead Earrings, Native American Jewelry, Possible Bags and more.

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A Midnight Race on the Mississippi

Nathaniel Currier and James Ives