Painting Archive
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A complex subject: A conversation with Dita Amory about Madame Cézanne
Posted on December 2, 2014Today we’re sharing a new dispatch from the blog of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: a conversation between Rachel High, Editorial Assistant at the Museum, and Dita Amory, curator of […] -
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For the Contemplative Artist
Posted on December 23, 2013“I have always thought that if you can get the artist to talk directly about his or her work, you are likely to find out more, more rapidly and more […] -
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Van Gogh at Work
Posted on August 8, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Van Gogh struggled with volume. When at the age of 28 he decided to become an artist, he took to copying contours of nude models from a drawing […] -
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A Peek Inside German Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1350–1600
Posted on July 13, 2013Passing through the art section of a bookstore, you might find yourself arrested by the haughty gaze of Hermann von Wedigh III. The young merchant sits confidently at a table […] -
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The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Posted on June 21, 2013Caroline Hayes— Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding of art in the early twentieth century. Modersohn-Becker was the […] -
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Matisse: In Search of True Painting
Posted on January 22, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks The exhibition Matisse: In Search of True Painting explores Matisse’s practice of producing pairs of paintings, and the ways in which this practice influenced his development as artist. […] -
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The Civil War and American Art
Posted on December 5, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks In the century and a half since the Civil War, more than 75,000 books have been published about the war and its legacy. The figure speaks to the […] -
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Rinpa Aesthetics and the Art of Poetry
Posted on November 12, 2012Follow @yaleARTbooks Caroline Hayes— Upon visiting two exhibitions currently on display in New York City on the subject of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic—at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Designing Nature: […]