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What is Blackboard for Homer?

Blackboard is a painting made by famous American landscape painter and print maker Winslow Homer, who is regard as a creator of a bright, modern and ancient American style. The themes of his paintings ranged from heroic quality expressed in … Continue reading

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A Boy As Pierrot

A boy with two big jade-green eyes has a small straight nose and a small cherry mouth, whose face has conspicuous blusher on each cheek. He has short golden haircut. Almost his back side of head is covered by a … Continue reading

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The Problem We All Live With

The Problem We All Live With is a great painting painted by Norman Rockwell in 1964. It is one of Norman’s works with social or political themes. And this great painting symbolized the civil rights movement in the United State, … Continue reading

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Saying Grace by Norman Rockwell

The little boy with dark, golden, short hair sat on an traditional back rest wooden chair and left his back of the head, praying. He was in white shirt with black pants and maybe at his tens. On his right … Continue reading

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The Family Tree

The Family Tree, as it was named, was simply recognized as depicting the genealogy of the young boy at the top of the painting at the first sight. It was created by Norman Rockwell in 1959 for the cover of … Continue reading

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Day in the Life of A Little Girl

Norman Rockwell, who never lost his childishness, once said “I really do not know how many children I have painted in my paintings. I guess… maybe several thousand. But I still interested in using children as subjects.” Day in the … Continue reading

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Longing for a Puppy Love

The first moment I saw it, I was totally attracted and even could not breathe at all. What was presented in the painting is exactly most of us pursuing for. I, along with my half, am sitting together and enjoying … Continue reading

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The Sick Child by Edvard Munch

This painting is a painful memory of Munch's family suffered in his childhood, and it depicts the scene of his 15-year-old sister Sophia got sick. Although she hadn't lost her childish temperament, she was thin and pale for tortured by … Continue reading

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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt

Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer is a well-known oil painting by Gustav Klimt, who was a famous Austrian symbolism painter that related closely with Vienna Secession movement. At that time, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer commissioned Klimt to paint it. In Vienna Klimt finished … Continue reading

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Portrait of The Jonathan Buttall

Portrait of The Jonathan Buttall was made by the famous British portrait painting master Thomas Gainsborough, which is now preserved in the Huntington Library in Los Angeles. This painting was used to deny Reynolds’s point of "blue can not occupy the … Continue reading

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