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The Kiss by Gustav Klimt
Mar 24, 2023
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8 minutes read
"The Kiss" is a famous painting created by Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt in 1908.  It depicts a couple locked in an embrace and about to kiss, with the man wrapping his arms around the woman and tilting her head back while she leans into him. The painting is considered one of Klimt's most famous works, and it is widely recognized as an iconic image of romantic love.
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Zendaya and Hunter Schafer transformed into masterpieces of art history in the Euphoria series
Feb 2, 2022
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2 minutes read
Last night's episode of HBO's Euphoria contained a scattering of the predictable—teens acting horribly, self-destructively, and making each other cry for reasons that aren't fully clear. Alongside it all, in an unexpected twist, art history was given a prominent role in the show, which began with reenactments of scenes from some of the most famous paintings ever created.
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Vanity: a pictorial genre
Jul 24, 2022
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6 minutes read
Vanity refers to a specific type of still life, which, through the inclusion of characteristic symbolic objects, such as, for example, skulls, hourglasses, and luxury goods, aims to remind the viewer, both of the inexorable passing of time, and the future advent of death, and, consequently, also of the futility of ephemeral earthly goods and pleasures...
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A Renaissance against racism...
Feb 22, 2023
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10 minutes read
Larsen's novel seems to continue in the point of view expressed, roughly thirty years later, by Jacob Lawrence's painting, which, titled Taboo (1963), is one of the many works created by the artist during the civil rights movement, aimed at expressing, through the depiction of two mixed couples intent on getting married, all the aversion felt by the master to taboos concerning marriages between people of different races...
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Singapore Street Art Under Fire: A Debate on Artistic Expression
Jun 26, 2024
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2 minutes read
A government order to modify a mural in Singapore's Chinatown, depicting a Samsui woman with a lit cigarette, has sparked a debate on street art censorship and public policy. Artist Sean Dunston defended his work, highlighting historical accuracy and challenging conventional portrayals, which led to a broader discussion on the balance between artistic expression and regulatory control in Singapore.

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