Painting – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

“Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” by Masaccio, 1425 [Newberry on Great Art series]

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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series […]

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“Geometric Warrior,” 8th century BCE [Newberry on Great Art series]

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Caspar David Friedrich faces the world

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Here is a site devoted to Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the 19th-century German Romantic painter. The feature image is a portrait of Friedrich by Franz Gerhard von Kugelgen (1772-1820). [More of my art-related posts.]

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Pairing: Van Gogh’s and Wyeth’s boots

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Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, Then and Now

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The times, they are a changin’. Rembrandt van Rijn (1653) and Michael Crawford (1992).

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Manet on a woman’s tellingly-placed feet

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Add this to your “Why Art Education Is Important” file: “You can deduce everything about a woman from the way she holds her feet,” Edouard Manet once said to Stephen Mallarmé. “Seductive women always turn their feet out. Don’t expect to get anywhere with a woman who turns her feet in.”[1] Which makes this painting

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The best art form — sculpture version

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Carrying on the fun Renaissance debate about which art form is the best. Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) was a goldsmith, sculptor, revenge-killer, likely a rapist, and party animal. Check out his Autobiography for all the energetic and sordid true-confessions details. It was he who did the bronze Perseus with the Head of Medusa, now in the

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