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Ilya Repin – The gifted artist of the group known as “The Itinerants”
Ilya Repin was the most gifted of the group known in Russia as “The Itinerants”. When only twelve years old, he joined Ivan Bounakov’s studio to learn the icon-painter’s craft. Religious representations always remained of great importance for him.
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MUCHA MEETS CHINA: A Breathtakingly Beautiful Mucha Exhibition in Shanghai
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Portrait Paintings and Studio Drawings
"It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait." - James Whistler
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Art Nouveau
"One can argue the merits and the future of the new decorative art movement, but there is no denying it currently reigns triumphant over all Europe and in every English-speaking country outside Europe; all it needs now is management, and this is up to men of taste.” (Jean Lahor, Paris 1901)
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Everything you can imagine is real
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When German soldiers used to come to my studio and look at my pictures of Guernica, they’d ask ‘Did you do this?’. And I’d say, ‘No, you did.’
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Mantegna and the Concept of Total Illusion
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William Morris: Un motif est soit vrai soit faux…Il n’est pas plus fort que son point le plus faible
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William Morris: A Pattern is either right or wrong…It is no stronger than its weakest point
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Die Präraffaeliten: Die revolutionäre Bruderschaft: Rückkehr ins Mittelalter
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