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Motherhood, Modernity, and the Magic of Mary Cassatt
Discover the intimate world of Mary Cassatt, the American Impressionist who redefined how women and family life were portrayed in art.
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Félix Vallotton: The sharp eye of the Nabis
Discover the world of Félix Vallotton, the Swiss-French painter and printmaker whose sharp lines and bold contrasts transformed modern art.
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Ukiyo-E: Exploring the themes of Japan’s floating world
Ukiyo-E artists, such as Hokusai and Hiroshige, captured the elegance of nature, the vibrancy of city life, and the ephemerality of pleasure, creating a visual legacy that continues to inspire and fascinate the world.
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Revisiting L’Atelier du Peintre, (The Studio of the Artist) of Camille Corot- A feminist perspective
Corot's work often featured idyllic landscapes, characterized by their poetic and atmospheric quality. He was particularly renowned for his skillful rendering of light and shadow, as well as his use of subtle color harmonies.
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Kitagawa Utamaro, the Master of Ukiyo-e and his Pioneering Portraits of Edo
Utamaro, a prominent Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period, is renowned for his exquisite woodblock prints. His masterful portrayal of bijin-ga, or images of beautiful women, captures the essence of the Floating World with unparalleled elegance.
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Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini
The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”
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Utamaro – Pictures of the floating world
The coloured prints of Utamaro are, as Edmond de Goncourt wrote, a “miracle of art” in which he brought these impressions to an absolute and unsurpassable degree of perfection. The influence of Utamaro, Hiroshige and other masters of Ukiyo-e* revolutionised the sense of colour in the world of art.
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Hot Summer time, Hot Bikini
On July 1, 1946, at 9 o’clock in the morning, an atomic bomb exploded with a force of 23,000 tons above Bikini, a coral atoll in the South Pacific hitherto virtually unheard of. More than six disarmed warships of the Japanese and American fleets were sunk and more than twice that number were seriously damaged.
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Underwear and Fashion: Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
The authors correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – International Women’s Day – Celebrating Female Artists
There are still huge worlds apart for many women across the globe in areas of work and pay, acknowledgements and accolades. Female artists are still outweighed by male artists in most contemporary galleries. We are very used to seeing the female form as the centrepiece but usually painted from the male perspective.
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