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What is Blackboard for Homer?

Posted on June 25, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on May 12, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on April 24, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on April 18, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on April 9, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on April 4, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on March 28, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on March 24, 2014 by artisoo

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

Posted on November 12, 2013 by artisoo

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

Posted on July 24, 2013 by artisoo

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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