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Pablo Picasso, Three Women
Maintaining a precarious balance between representation and abstraction, Picasso and Braque saw themselves as pursuing a daring and dangerous course.
A Still Life of Global Dimensions: Antonio de Pereda’s Still Life with Ebony Chest
In this still life, objects and customs from around the world converge around one delicious food: chocolate.
Varvara Stepanova, The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
Stepanova lent her artistic talents to the cause of promoting the ideals of the Soviet Union.
Henri Matisse, Goldfish
To say that Matisse “had a thing for goldfish” would be kind of an understatement.
Ilya Repin, Krestny Khod (Religious Procession) in Kursk Gubernia
Though initially forced to find sponsorship from a wealthy general, Repin’s paintings castigated the upper classes.