Whiteness has been the default in color photographs, but artists like John Akomfrah work toward a “uniquely Black image.�
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What can we learn about 17th-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer by examining the pigments in his paintings?
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Meindert Hobbema, viewed today as one of the most characteristic and highly valued Dutch landscape painters of the seventeenth century, is not mentioned in a single seventeenth-century literary source. The earliest reference to his work occurs in Johan van Gool’s 1751 lexicon of Dutch artists, where Hobbema is mentioned in passing as having painted “modern landscapes.�
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A.I. technology brings John Singer Sargent’s painting, Spanish Roma Dancer, to life.
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Download a PDF of the 1973 book A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art: Volume 2, Painters Born from 1850 to 1910.
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A prominent African American sculptor and printmaker, Elizabeth Catlett created art dedicated to aesthetic rigor, human dignity, and freedom for all. Born in 1915, in Washington, DC, she graduated from Howard University then earned a master of fine arts from the University of Iowa—the first student in the US to do so.
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Protection officer Jerry Foley and Kimberly A. Jones, curator of nineteenth-century French paintings, discuss Degas’s painting about looking at works of art and experiencing a sense of discovery.
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For classical pianist and activist Lara Downes, Romare Bearden’s collage is a puzzle full of questions and unfinished business. In response, she brings together different musical sources, overlaying sounds to create both harmony and tension.
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