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What’s so special about Yves Tanguy’s painting Imaginary Numbers?

- Surrealist love bites

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- Hopeful blobs in Imaginary Numbers

- Mother Dada and then baby Dali

Check out these insights and more on LadyKflo’s Art Blog. Where you’ll find essays and analysis on many masterpieces.

* Whoah. King George had how many kids?

* The Three Youngest Daughters of George III – anything but posers

* Copley’s red connections

Check out LadyKflo’s piece on this masterwork at her Art Blog.

 * Muscularity in motion 

* Obedience and freedom in The Horse Fair 

* Bonheur – LBGT pioneer and fashion iconoclast 

Find out how this painting inspired Bonheur to wear male attire all the time.

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* Artistic friendship on a poster portrait

* I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold‘s vibrant electricity

* William Carlos Williams named 3 times

Get all the LadyKFlo goods on this and many more masterpieces.

* Homeric phrases and Long Island

* De Kooning’s gestural impact

* Landscape ladies

LadyKFlo talks more about this fascinating masterpiece and the Abstract Expressionist de Kooning. Check out the link in bio for all her insights.

* Audubon – hunter turned lover

* Blue moves the Arctic Tern

* Feet make the bird

Check out my latest piece on this wonder from my childhood.

* Abstract Expressionist and/or Photo Realistic

* Woman Descending the Staircase – pure movement

* What’s Duchamp got to do with it?

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Learn about the symbolic expressions in my favorite Edvard Munch painting Girls on a Pier including:

* Pink and feminine youth

* Abyss of the unknown – trees in Girls on a Pier

* A puppy surrounded with Munchian dread

* Why the train?

* George Inness’s rejection

* Opposites in harmony

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* Truth about his real acrobat models

* What oranges represent

* Darkness lurking nearby

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Introducing Amédée David the Comte de Pastoret. The painter Jean Auguste Dominiqué Ingres was a student of Jacques Louis David. It’s funny because thirty five years before this portrait, David did one with Amédée in it. He was the baby in Madame de Pastoret and Her Son. There were no signs of the man he’d become from his tiny presence in that painting. In contrast, this portrait shows us the man.

Aristocrats vs. revolutionaries

Symbols in Madame de Pastoret and Her Son

Working mothers of the French Revolution

Prison, exile, and a missing needle

Timing wasn’t on the side of Madame de Pastoret and Her Son. In fact, she married Count Pastoret on Bastille Day. That was the climactic end of the French Revolution. As a noble aristocrat, this wasn’t an ideal anniversary day. It also meant revolutionaries, like David, started to see her in a different way. When he agreed to paint Adelaide Anne Pastoret, she was running her own revolution.

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John Rogers Cox: Bank Teller-Painter-Soldier-Painter

Fences and distance in Gray and Gold

Magic mixed with Realism

A meticulous method

Paintings like Gray and Gold by Cox aren’t what one might think of as art about war. It lacks literal soldiers and arms. But that’s because this painting portrays war through analogy. This natural landscape might not contain any people. But human emotion permeates the picture. Cox wields fury and frustration in a controlled chaos of weather. The clouds loom with foreboding grey peaks and an ominous black sky behind. This represents human nature’s shadow side. That’s why we go to war.

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Bottoms up bananas – reality is overrated

Fight? What Fight?

Rousseau’s self esteem

Flowers and animals paired in The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo

Jungle mystery

Henri Rousseau creates a sense of play – not battle – in The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo. His singular style suits this particular fancy. That’s because Rousseau brings us into his world without much regard for the “real” one. He paints fantasy. But one that only he could imagine. There’s nobody quite like Rousseau. His vision includes upside down banana bunches. So, we know it’s unlikely he ever saw a banana tree in person. In fact, Rousseau claimed to have visited the jungle. But we now know he’d only ever been to zoos and botanical gardens. Given his bananas, he likely went to the farmer’s market as well.

Trapped lady and free servant

Greenery versus greys

Color and the duty in the Spanish royal court

Six tiny, hopeful, leaves

Bright hues draws us into the placid pair of Goya’s painting The Parasol. Their relationship, and the painting, seem simple at first. But the freshness of that yellow and brilliant blue draw our eyes deeper into the scene. Looking closer at the lemony skirt, we see it hosts a tiny dog. This represents a sense of duty and care for the young lady. The domesticated pup’s in that needy lapdog position. Such creatures are often like babies. So, it symbolizes the lovely lady’s role as mother and caretaker.

* Trapped lady and free servant

* Greenery versus greys

* Color and the duty in the Spanish royal court

* Why Goya was the Madonna of the Spanish Enlightenment

* Six tiny, hopeful, leaves

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