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Imaginary Numbers By Yves Tanguy

What’s so special about Yves Tanguy’s painting Imaginary Numbers?

- Surrealist love bites

- Sponsored by Peggy Guggenheim

- Hopeful blobs in Imaginary Numbers

- Mother Dada and then baby Dali

Check out these insights and more on LadyKflo’s Art Blog. Where you’ll find essays and analysis on many masterpieces.

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Table of contents for blog post on The Three Youngest Daughters of George III.

* Whoah. King George had how many kids?

* The Three Youngest Daughters of George III – anything but posers

* Copley’s red connections

Check out LadyKflo’s piece on this masterwork at her Art Blog.

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Why is Rosa Bonheur’s painting The Horse Fair important?

 * Muscularity in motion 

* Obedience and freedom in The Horse Fair 

* Bonheur – LBGT pioneer and fashion iconoclast 

Find out how this painting inspired Bonheur to wear male attire all the time.

https://www.ladykflo.com/the-horse-fair-by-rosa-bonheur/

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Why is Charles Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold one the top 100 NYC paintings?

* Artistic friendship on a poster portrait

* I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold‘s vibrant electricity

* William Carlos Williams named 3 times

Get all the LadyKFlo goods on this and many more masterpieces.

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What does Willem de Kooning evoke in the painting Rosy Fingered Dawn at Louse Point?

* Homeric phrases and Long Island

* De Kooning’s gestural impact

* Landscape ladies

LadyKFlo talks more about this fascinating masterpiece and the Abstract Expressionist de Kooning. Check out the link in bio for all her insights.

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What’s so special about Arctic Tern, the Audubon bird painting?

* Audubon – hunter turned lover

* Blue moves the Arctic Tern

* Feet make the bird

Check out my latest piece on this wonder from my childhood.

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Here’s a few tidbits of introduction to the painting Woman Descending the Staircase by Gerhard Richter :

* Abstract Expressionist and/or Photo Realistic

* Woman Descending the Staircase – pure movement

* What’s Duchamp got to do with it?

Check out even more with a click to LadyKflo’s Art Blog. That means bite-size vids, FAQs, and all the goods.

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Girls on a Bridge by Edvard Munch

Learn about the symbolic expressions in my favorite Edvard Munch painting Girls on a Pier including:

* Pink and feminine youth

* Abyss of the unknown – trees in Girls on a Pier

* A puppy surrounded with Munchian dread

All it takes is a click to LadyKFlo’s Art Blog.

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This blog investigates several aspects of The Lackawanna Valley painting such as:

* Why the train?

* George Inness’s rejection

* Opposites in harmony

Learn more about the painter George Inness and this painting at LadyKflo’s Art Blog -

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What’s the story with Renoir’s Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando?

* Truth about his real acrobat models

* What oranges represent

* Darkness lurking nearby

Learn these along other fun facts and insights with a click to LadyKflo’s Art blog.

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Boxing may seem brutish. But it makes a masterpiece of Stag at Sharkey’s. George Wesley Bellows uses realistic representation and abstract blurring here. This heightens the excitement around the action. It gives viewers the immediate feeling of recognition. Oh! I know what this is about. There’s so much happening at the center. Boxers and a referee draw us into the contest. But there’s more to the story. It’s not a mere popcorn moment. Sure, boxers fight in the painting. In fact, Bellows often portrayed boxing. It was one of his favorite subjects.

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Introducing Amédée David the Comte de Pastoret. The painter Jean Auguste Dominiqué Ingres was a student of Jacques Louis David. It’s funny because thirty five years before this portrait, David did one with Amédée in it. He was the baby in Madame de Pastoret and Her Son. There were no signs of the man he’d become from his tiny presence in that painting. In contrast, this portrait shows us the man.

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Table of Contents for art blog on Madame de Pastoret and Her Son:

Aristocrats vs. revolutionaries

Symbols in Madame de Pastoret and Her Son

Working mothers of the French Revolution

Prison, exile, and a missing needle

Timing wasn’t on the side of Madame de Pastoret and Her Son. In fact, she married Count Pastoret on Bastille Day. That was the climactic end of the French Revolution. As a noble aristocrat, this wasn’t an ideal anniversary day. It also meant revolutionaries, like David, started to see her in a different way. When he agreed to paint Adelaide Anne Pastoret, she was running her own revolution.

Learn more with a click through to LadyKflo’s Art Blog.

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Fascinating insights about the Gray and Gold Painting lie ahead, including:

John Rogers Cox: Bank Teller-Painter-Soldier-Painter

Fences and distance in Gray and Gold

Magic mixed with Realism

A meticulous method

Paintings like Gray and Gold by Cox aren’t what one might think of as art about war. It lacks literal soldiers and arms. But that’s because this painting portrays war through analogy. This natural landscape might not contain any people. But human emotion permeates the picture. Cox wields fury and frustration in a controlled chaos of weather. The clouds loom with foreboding grey peaks and an ominous black sky behind. This represents human nature’s shadow side. That’s why we go to war.

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This art blog on Rousseau’s The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo includes:

Bottoms up bananas – reality is overrated

Fight? What Fight?

Rousseau’s self esteem

Flowers and animals paired in The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo

Jungle mystery

Henri Rousseau creates a sense of play – not battle – in The Fight of a Tiger and a Buffalo. His singular style suits this particular fancy. That’s because Rousseau brings us into his world without much regard for the “real” one. He paints fantasy. But one that only he could imagine. There’s nobody quite like Rousseau. His vision includes upside down banana bunches. So, we know it’s unlikely he ever saw a banana tree in person. In fact, Rousseau claimed to have visited the jungle. But we now know he’d only ever been to zoos and botanical gardens. Given his bananas, he likely went to the farmer’s market as well.

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Contents for The Parasol painting by Goya include:

Trapped lady and free servant

Greenery versus greys

Color and the duty in the Spanish royal court

Six tiny, hopeful, leaves

Bright hues draws us into the placid pair of Goya’s painting The Parasol. Their relationship, and the painting, seem simple at first. But the freshness of that yellow and brilliant blue draw our eyes deeper into the scene. Looking closer at the lemony skirt, we see it hosts a tiny dog. This represents a sense of duty and care for the young lady. The domesticated pup’s in that needy lapdog position. Such creatures are often like babies. So, it symbolizes the lovely lady’s role as mother and caretaker.

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Contents for my art blog piece about The Parasol painting by Goya include:

* Trapped lady and free servant

* Greenery versus greys

* Color and the duty in the Spanish royal court

* Why Goya was the Madonna of the Spanish Enlightenment

* Six tiny, hopeful, leaves

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