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Most Famous Paintings Ever
Persona
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Persona wrote:
(PS I love how it is SO obvious Copley has never seen a shark in his life lmao)
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Date: 11-12-2017 11:09
Persona
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Persona wrote:
51. 

Title: The Ladies Waldegrave

Artist: Joshua Reynolds

Date: 1780-1

Location: National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh 

Fun fact: It was commissioned by the subjects' mother in the hope of attracting potential suitors for them - all three of them were then unmarried.
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Date: 11-12-2017 11:11
Persona
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52. 

Title: Whistler's Mother

Artist: James Whistler 

Date: 1871

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Fun fact: Several unverifiable stories relate to the painting of the work; one is that Anna Whistler acted as a replacement for another model who couldn't make the appointment. It is also said that Whistler originally envisioned painting the model standing up, but that his mother was too uncomfortable to pose standing for an extended period.
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Date: 11-12-2017 12:41
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53. 

Title: Dance at the Moulin de la Galette 

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Date: 1876

Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Fun fact: The painting depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at the original Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. In the late 19th century, working class Parisians would dress up and spend time there dancing, drinking, and eating galettes into the evening.
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Date: 11-12-2017 12:49
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54. 

Title: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)

Artist: Winslow Homer

Year: 1873-6

Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Fun fact: The finished work indicates that the significant influence of Japanese art on Western painters in the 19th century also touched Homer, particularly in the compositional balance between the left (active) and right (sparse) halves.
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Date: 11-12-2017 12:53
Persona
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55.

Title: The Great Wave Off Kanagawa 

Artist: Katsushika Hokusai

Date: 1829-1833

Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Fun fact: While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is more likely to be a large rogue wave
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:07 | Times changed: 1
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56. 

Title: Nude Sitting on a Divan 

Artist: Amedeo Modigliani

Date: 1917

Location: Private Collection

Fun fact: On November 2, 2010, the painting sold at a New York auction for $68.9 million, a record price for an artwork by Modigliani.
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:11
SiXsiXsiX
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siXsiXsiX wrote:
there's something.. peculiar.. about their faces, their round soft features, all looking very similar
is it just the way they painted. or did everyone look like this in the past?
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:37
Igneous
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Persona wrote:
2. 

Title: Starry Night

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Date: 1889

Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York City

Fun fact: Van Gogh painted Starry Night whilst being committed to an asylum. It depicts the view from his room.
i've seen this one and it was really nice 
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:47
Igneous
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Igneous wrote:
also this is such a nice topic imma follow it
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Bum wrote:
siXsiXsiX wrote:
there's something.. peculiar.. about their faces, their round soft features, all looking very similar
is it just the way they painted. or did everyone look like this in the past?

not everyone looked like that, it was simply the look that was deemed beautiful during those time periods. rounder and plump bodies were seen as a sign of wealth, and were quite sought after. 
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:48
Persona
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57. 

Title: Stag at Sharkey's

Artist: George Bellows

Date: 1909

Location: Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Fun fact: Participants in the boxing ring were usually members of the club, but occasionally outsiders would fight with temporary memberships. These fighters were known as "stags.
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Date: 11-12-2017 13:55 | Times changed: 1
Persona
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Persona wrote:
58. 

Title: The Night Cafe

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Date: 1888

Location: Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut 

Fun fact: The interior depicted is the Café de la Gare, 30 Place Lamartine, which was run by Joseph-Michel Ginoux and his wife Marie.
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Date: 11-12-2017 14:14
Persona
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59. 

Title: The Avenue in the Rain

Artist: Childe Hassam

Date: 1917

Location: White House, Washington DC

Fun fact: It was donated to the White House in 1963 by Thomas Mellon Evans. It was hung in the Oval Office by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.
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Date: 11-12-2017 14:19
Persona
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60. 

Title: Annunciation 

Artist: Leonardo da Vinci

Date: 1472-1475

Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Fun fact: The painting has since been attributed to different artists, including Leonardo and Verrocchio's contemporary Domenico Ghirlandaio. 
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