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Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health issues in the world, so...

Self-Portrait with Japanese Print by Vincent van Gogh Bipolar disorder,...

By the end of the nineteenth century, artists were absorbing the lessons and...

The term “Post-Impressionism” was first used in 1910 by the English art...

Camille Claudel is known for her narrative bronze and marble sculptures. She...

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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...

Think of Romanticism as the emo kids of the 19th century. While...

  The Symbolist Movement was born in 1886 as a literary movement by Jean...

  When the United States forcefully opened Japan to foreign trade,...

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The Baroque is a strange and wonderful movement that was created and marketed...

Spoiler Alert: paintings of the pilgrims are anything but historically accurate...

Vincent van  Gogh, The Yellow House, 1888, Van Gogh Museum....

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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....

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  When people talk about “realism” in art, they are typically referring to one...

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  Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...

Natural pigments are naturally occurring substances used to impart color and come...

Acclaimed art collector Shawn “Jay Z” Carter once wisely said, “I bought some...

Modern art is experimental and innovative, as artists respond creatively to a world...

If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...

Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...

One thing art teachers never tell you in school is that sometimes the next best...

Mickalene Thomas, Sista Sista Lady Blue, 2007, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art...

Rococo is an ornamental style of art and interior design which originated in...

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Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889.   In Robert Frost’s...

Baroque art started because the Catholics got all jealous that people were...

Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...

Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....