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Blacksmiths Boy, heel and toe (left half detail) - Norman Rockwell (1940)🇺🇲

Blacksmith’s Boy—Heel and Toe originally appeared in the November 2, 1940 issue of The Post alongside Edward W. O’Brien’s short story of the same title, which tells the tale of a horseshoe making contest from the point of view of a local blacksmith’s son. Forging contests like these were common tests of strength and...

Coffee Drinker - Ivana Kobilca (1888) 🇸🇮

Judging by her social origin, way of living, ideals and work, she was an urban artist. She is one of Slovene realists, who created their most important paintings in the 1880s. Kobilca's greatest tribute to Slovenian art was made during the time she lived abroad. Her greatest impact was on figural painting, especially portraits...

Christ in The House of Martha and Mary - Johannes Vermeer (1654-6) 🇳🇱

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (Dutch: Christus in het huis van Martha en Maria) is a painting finished in 1655 by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is now in the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. It is the largest painting by Vermeer and one of the very few with an overt religious motive (63"x56").

Catherine - Taras Shevchenko (1842) 🇺🇦

Born a serf, Shevchenko was freed in 1838 while a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. His first collection of poems, entitled Kobzar (1840; “The Bard”), expressed the historicism and the folkloristic interests of the Ukrainian Romantics, but his poetry soon moved away from nostalgia for Cossack life to a more...

Self portrait with dog - Miroslav Krajlevic (1910) 🇭🇷

After having been educated in Zagreb and Gospić, Miroslav Kraljević (1885–1913) enrolled to study law in Vienna in 1906, which he then interrupted in order to study painting. In 1906/07, he started attending the private school of graphic artist Moritz Heymann in Munich, and in May 1907 he was accepted at the Academy of Fine...

Garden of Eden - Kim Kogan 🇰🇷/🇺🇲

"Kim Cogan is a Korean-born American painter residing and working in San Francisco, CA. His work explores the boundaries between realism and memory. His rooftop panoramas, composed city scenes and impressionistic figures are grounded in explorations of place and characterized by an atmospheric intentionality. By using light,...

Campfire - Mark Boyle 🇺🇲

Artist Statement: In my early years, I explored ravines and woods near my house, often lost in another world and late for dinner. A serious interest in painting developed at 11 years old. As I recall, my first painting was of a rainbow trout. My parents hired local artists to instruct me privately during my teen years. A person...

Still Life with vegetables, tulips - Daniel Gordon (b.1980)

Gordon is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist who uses collage, sculpture, and photography to create fantastical portraits, nudes, and still lifes. Critics have drawn parallels between Gordon’s work and the paintings of artists such as Matisse and Cézanne, yet Gordon relies on the camera to ground his art. Photography...

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