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Symbols are things that stand for something else.

A profound appreciation for the paintings of Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer unites these three people—and many others.
“Everything else is an add-on.”

Degas exhibited only one sculpture during his lifetime, the wax Little Dancer Aged Fourteen , at the Sixth Impressionist exhibition in 1881 (that statuette is now in the National Gallery of Art). Many critics reacted with shock to its subject, which they found harshly realistic and even ugly, and to its unconventional incorporation of actual, rather than sculpturally imitated, fabric and hair.
figures on makeshift armatures reinforced with brush handles, matches, or whatever else

In June 1871, Thomas Moran, a gifted young artist working in Philadelphia, boarded a train that would take him to the far reaches of the western frontier and change the course of his career. Just a few months earlier he had been asked to illustrate a magazine article describing a wondrous region in Wyoming called Yellowstone—rumored to contain steam-spewing geysers, boiling hot springs, and bubbling mud pots.
conjuring instead an imagined scene of a pre-industrial West that neither he nor anyone else

In this photograph, journalist and musician Celeste Headlee hears Lenox Avenue, a suite her grandfather William Grant Still named after Harlem’s main street. This portrait captures the pride of Black Americans achieving success during the Harlem Renaissance despite systemic injustice. 
It’s just someone else is writing the rules.

The artisans from the tiny town of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have been making a global impact for generations.
“I feel so at peace when I come here—a peace I can’t get anywhere else.”

Students will be introduced to one of the basic elements of art—form—by analyzing the types of forms and materials used in various sculptures. Students will then experiment with line in both two and three dimensions to see how shapes become forms.
Metal, stone, wood, plastic, clay, marble, or something else?

What else does Siqueiros tell you about himself in this self-portrait?

As the presence of humans changes the Sonoran Desert, photographers capture the impact on the saguaro cactus.
But the title gives it away as something else: Maricopa County, Carefree Highway

Asian Americans are often left out of view of US history. But their lives—and their art—are an essential part of the nation’s story.
His art was always about a present that had yet to come into focus for everyone else