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Piero della Francesca: the painter who measured everything.
He wrote the first book in Europe on where to stand in front of a painting. At the end a child led him through the town by the hand.
Oct 6
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Pontormo's Deposition: The half they took down.
A chapel in Florence, a painting with no cross, and a ceiling no one remembers demolishing.
Sep 29
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Malevich's Black Square: The painting with nothing in it.
He hung it where the icon goes. The priest who explained why was shot in 1937.
Sep 15
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Munch's Sun: The army he could not see.
He painted the most famous scream in art at sundown. Twenty years later, he painted the same sun coming back.
Sep 8
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The Diary of Schiele: The life he could only paint
A diary Schiele never kept: the mirror he broke, the woman he lost, the family he painted before it existed.
Sep 1
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Floris van Doorn
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Klimt’s Sketches: The self-portrait he said he never made.
Klimt said he never made a self-portrait. He made four thousand.
Aug 25
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The Constellations by Miró: The ladder that leads out of hell.
A constellation is not in the sky; we draw it there. Miró drew twenty-three, in hiding, while the war disproved every other order.
Aug 18
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Nighthawks by Hopper: The light that offers shelter.
Everyone calls it the loneliest painting in America. Look instead at whoever keeps the light on.
Aug 11
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David Hockney - Portrait of an Artist
David Hockney painted the man who left him in perfect focus. The blur was for himself.
Aug 4
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Rilke's Rodin
The Autumn Rodin Taught Rilke How to Live
Jun 16
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Hokusai - Mount Fuji Looks Back.
How an aging painter let a mountain change him, view by view
May 5
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Kandinsky and the Invisible
How Kandinsky Sought to Make the Soul Visible
Apr 21
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