Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare, Claude Monet, 1877 By Ignacio Rodriguez “Arrival of the Normandy Train” by Claude Monet is an impressionist piece that makes excellent use of brush strokes to create the cold, smokey atmosphere of the Normandy train station in the nineteenth century. The train sheds of […]
Daily Archives: September 12, 2025
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Dig Deeper And Then We Saw The Daughter Of The Minotaur, Leonora Carrington, 1953 By Aleah Rayanna Bedassie At first glance it was clear to me Leonora Carrington’s, “And Then We Saw The Daughter Of the Minotaur” would be my all time favorite piece of art. My first impression of […]
The Joy of Life, Henri Matisse, 1905–1906 By Kristi Henri Matisse’s The Joy of Life (1905–1906) is a colorful and emotional painting that shows people enjoying nature. It is an oil painting on canvas and one of the most famous examples of Fauvism. Matisse uses very bright and non naturalistic […]
Goldfish, Henri Matisse, 1912 By Anonymous I chose Goldfish by Henri Matisse because the artwork reminds me of a home far away from home. Back in Antigua, during the rainy season, my parents used to collect baby fish that washed up on the road and placed them in a bowl. We […]
Through the Mirror: Realism in Courbet’s Portrait of Jo— Jo, La Belle Irlandaise, Gustave Courbet , 1865–66 By Juan Valenzuela When I first saw Gustave Courbet’s Jo, La Belle Irlandaise (1865–66), I was struck by how quiet the moment felt. Jo, the woman in the painting, is looking into a […]
The Double Secret (Le double secret), René Magritte, 1927 By Ayleen Castellanos René Magritte’s 1927 painting The Double Secret (Le double secret) shows a figure from just below the shoulders to the top of the head, with a blank expression. A large part of the left side of the face […]
