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The femme fragile was the product of its time: in the Victorian era, feminine weakness conveyed Godliness and mental purity.
The masks of French Surrealist photographer Claude Cahun (1894-1954) vary from that of an androgynous weight-training flapper to a Buddhist monk.
Caravaggio’s paintings are filled with expressions of aggression, awestruck wonder, dark foreboding, violence, and profound sadness‒the aesthetics of exclamation.
For over five thousand years, the art of tattooing has captivated human cultures. Today, we understand the reasoning for adorning one’s body with images and symbols as being both incredibly varied and extremely personal. But what we don’t think about is how this was also the case in antiquity.
Welcome to the new year, dear readers! It’s 2023, which means a new year, a new beginning, and new art exhibitions to check out. Luckily for you, we put together a round up of the most exciting US museum exhibitions opening this year that you will definitely want to see. Read on to find out which shows made the cut!
The Harlem Renaissance was an artistic and political movement that redefined Blackness in the United States as an act of liberation from post-antebellum discrimination and stereotypes, evidenced by Jim Crow laws and an abundance of blackface on-screen.
In 1907, the Swiss painter Félix Vallotton made a portrait of Gertrude Stein.
In the past year, artificial intelligence (AI) has not only become more powerful, it has become highly accessible. One recent online trend, made possible by the AI-based phone app Lensa AI, has led to a wave of "original" portraits being shared across social media.
Pioneering pointillist and founding Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat (1859-1891) painted one of the most recognizable and reproduced paintings in the world: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
