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Yayoi Kusama | Narcissus Garden
Season 9
Yayoi Kusama is one of the most popular contemporary artists with her infinity rooms drawing massive crowds wherever they are installed. In the infin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Claude Monet | The Gare Saint-Lazare
Season 9
Claude Monet loved his garden and made about 250 paintings of water lilies. He and his Impressionist contemporaries were focused on color, light, and…
2 years, 2 months ago
Edvard Munch | The Scream
Season 9
As a young adult, Edvard Munch studied art. He was influenced early on by the Impressionists, but he really came into his own when he began using pai…
2 years, 2 months ago
Alfred Stieglitz | The Steerage
Season 9
Alfred Stieglitz is considered by many to be the father of modern photography. He looked at the camera as not simply a tool to document the world, bu…
2 years, 2 months ago
Louis Daguerre | The Artist's Studio
Season 9
Louis Daguerre was an early pioneer of photography. While he didn't invent the medium, he did come up with a method that was workable, and perhaps mo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Paul Cezanne | Mont Sainte-Victoire
Season 9
Cezanne is widely celebrated today, but he struggled early on. He was rejected by Beaux Arts multiple times. He went back home to work at the bank fo…
2 years, 2 months ago
Diego Rivera | Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central Park
Season 9
Today Diego Rivera is less of a household name than his wife Frida Kahlo, but in the early 20th century, he was the more established artist. In Dream…
2 years, 2 months ago
Frida Kahlo | The Two Fridas
Season 9
Frida Kahlo was a painter in the early 20th century associated with the Surrealist movement. While she had some moderate success as a painter during …
2 years, 2 months ago
Olowe of Ise | Veranda Post
Season 9
The bulk of Olowe’s carvings seem to have been both decorative and functional artworks for the Yoruba kings and prominent families. One of his celebr…
2 years, 2 months ago
Shiva Nataraja | Shiva the Lord of the Dance
Season 9
In this depiction of Shiva we see the natural rhythms to everything in the cosmos. Birth and death, creation and destruction are symply phases all th…
2 years, 2 months ago