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When This Feisty Woman Reclaimed Female Nudity
When This Feisty Woman Reclaimed Female Nudity
The exuberant and defiant self-portrait of Florine Stettheimer
Christopher P Jones
Jun 15
The Artwork that Captures Socrates’ Noble Suicide
The Artwork that Captures Socrates’ Noble Suicide
Analysis of The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David
Christopher P Jones
Jun 2
Why Does this Painting Show An Ostrich Egg Hanging From the Ceiling?
Why Does this Painting Show An Ostrich Egg Hanging From the Ceiling?
Hidden symbols in the Brera Madonna by Piero della Francesca
Christopher P Jones
Apr 28
How to Read Paintings: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
How to Read Paintings: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère by Édouard Manet
A painting of ambiguous beauty and unsettling dynamics
Christopher P Jones
Aug 3, 2021
A Pair of Eyes Between Her Fingers?
A Pair of Eyes Between Her Fingers?
How to read this fascinating painting by Francesco del Cossa
Christopher P Jones
Mar 29
How to Read Paintings: Venus by Diego Velázquez
How to Read Paintings: Venus by Diego Velázquez
A painting that continues to provoke and beguile
Christopher P Jones
Nov 4, 2021
Andy Warhol’s Rise to Success
Andy Warhol’s Rise to Success
The early years of Pop Art’s grandee
Christopher P Jones
Sep 9, 2020
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What this Edward Hopper Painting Means to Me
What this Edward Hopper Painting Means to Me
Reading Hopper’s “Two on the Aisle”
Christopher P Jones
Jul 21
Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars
Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars
When Love Conquers War
Christopher P Jones
May 4
What Art Means to Me
What Art Means to Me
How I believe art is best appreciated
Christopher P Jones
Mar 17
The Art of Rubens and His Fascination With “Plump” Women
The Art of Rubens and His Fascination With “Plump” Women
The reasons behind his voluptuous nudes
Christopher P Jones
Feb 24
The Controversies of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso
The Controversies of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso
The Controversies of Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Pablo Picasso
Christopher P Jones
Feb 17
Five Sublime Scandinavian Artists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Five Sublime Scandinavian Artists You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Light, colour and atmosphere through five masterful painters
Christopher P Jones
Feb 4
Degas’ Art and his Complex Relationship with Women
Degas’ Art and his Complex Relationship with Women
Exploring the art of Edgar Degas
Christopher P Jones
Jan 18
Why The Virgin Mary’s Bare Breast Caused a Problem for Artists
Why The Virgin Mary’s Bare Breast Caused a Problem for Artists
Art’s difficulty in showing the lactating Virgin
Christopher P Jones
Jan 3
The Remarkable Illusionism of this Lesser-Known Dutch Artist
The Remarkable Illusionism of this Lesser-Known Dutch Artist
How to Read Paintings: Vanitas Still Life by Gijsbrechts
Christopher P Jones
Dec 17, 2021
How Lines Work: Art Fundamentals
How Lines Work: Art Fundamentals
The types of line in art and how artists use them
Christopher P Jones
Dec 3, 2021
Why this Bizarre Painting Shows a Boy Peeing On His Mother
Why this Bizarre Painting Shows a Boy Peeing On His Mother
The symbolism of Venus and Cupid by Lorenzo Lotto
Christopher P Jones
Nov 26, 2021
How to Read Paintings: Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
How to Read Paintings: Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai
The most famous Japanese print in the world
Christopher P Jones
Nov 16, 2021
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