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1 hour ago, Heart of Northern said:

Were all these models harlets? They seem to like getting them out which for the time they were painted I would have thought would have been quite risqué.
Oh I ken zip about art just in case it wasn't obvious

Possibly... Lautrec is famous for documenting the seedy underbelly of Paris in the late 19th century. I watched a documentary about his life a few years ago. Interesting stuff.

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On ‎25‎/‎11‎/‎2018 at 10:22, MixuFixit said:

Ilya Repin's Barge Haulers on the Volga.

I really like most of his work, he's able to capture very naturalistic expressions while sending a message. It was painted in the 1870s and making the younger guy in lighter colours, struggling with the harness probably reflects a growing sense that coming generations wouldn't tolerate things staying the same in Russia.

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...or he did that bit last and he only he had lighter coloured paint left

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19 minutes ago, MONKMAN said:

Favourites from the Met last week.

Van Gogh - Self Portrait with a straw hat

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Cezanne - Card players (2nd version)

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Rembrandt - Aristotle contemplating the bust of Homer

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Goya - Bullfight in a divided ring.

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I picked up a book in a second hand bookshop called "Picture This" by Joseph Heller (author of Catch-22). It's all about the Rembrandt painting above of Aristotle (a bugger for the bottle) and is a damn good read.

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23 minutes ago, Bold Rover said:

 Took our youngest grandchildren to Kelvingrove on Saturday. Glasgow Boys exhibition- excellent. Here's my pick - James Guthrie's  A Highland Funeral 1882

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Damn that's harsh, the emotions are so well captured. Burial of the boys 7-year old sister, apparently.

Slightly bigger version here for musing: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0895/0864/products/her09776_1024x1024.jpeg 

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16 minutes ago, banana said:

Damn that's harsh, the emotions are so well captured. Burial of the boys 7-year old sister, apparently.

Slightly bigger version here for musing: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0895/0864/products/her09776_1024x1024.jpeg 

Agree. Didn't know the story. I'll guess diphtheria then.

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