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The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Chola Bronzes from South India, c. 855‒1280 | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/stories/videos/thief-who-stole-my-heart-material-life-chola-bronzes-south-india-c-855-1280

As part of this six-part lecture series, Vidya Dehejia, discusses the work of artists of Chola India who created exceptional bronzes of the god Shiva, invoked as “Thief Who Stole My Heart.�
at the center of a flourishing ocean trade route between Aden and China, and the manner

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Family of Saltimbanques, Pablo Picasso | National Gallery of Art

https://www.nga.gov/node/856026

Family of Saltimbanques is the most important painting Pablo Picasso made during his early career. For him, these wandering saltimbanques (acrobats, dancers, and jesters) stood for the melancholy of the neglected underclass of artists, a kind of extended family with whom he identified. Like them, the Spanish-born Picasso was impoverished during the first years he spent in Paris striving for recognition. The brooding Harlequin—in the diamond-printed costume, at far left—bears the face of the dark, intense young artist himself.
There’s no coherent, unified manner in the painting, which is one of the things

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Tugboat on the Seine, Chatou by Maurice de Vlaminck

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/106379-tugboat-seine-chatou

Vlaminck is often portrayed as the most unruly painter of the fauve school, an impression that reflects both on his personality (as it is revealed in his biography and writings) and his work. A self-taught artist, Vlaminck insisted that painting should be the unmediated expression of an artist’s temperament, „emotive, tender, ferocious, as natural as life itself.“ [1] Indeed, having been an anarchist sympathizer during the prewar period, he would later link the strident colorism and bold brushwork of his work to social and political dissent, a connection that was actually made by several art critics.
Tugboats on the Seine is a brilliant example of Vlaminck’s most accomplished fauve manner

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