The Art Guide

The Art Guide is an internet reference for artist, galleries, museums and art enthusiast.

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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton, Painting by Winslow Homer

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'Spring Flowers with Window Reflections,' by Timothy Easton, 1994
oil painting on watercolor board

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Brilliant color to the background of this painting by Australian artist Margaret Hannah Olley, 1923-2011
oil/canvas

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Table setting by Canadian artist John Brown,
oil/panel

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'My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.'
Peter Falk

'Breakfast at Barney’s' acrylic and collage by Scottish artist John Brown

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'Tea Service,' oil painting on cradled birch wood panel by Oregon artist Erika Lee Sears.

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'Yellow is capable of charming Heaven.'
Vincent Van Gogh

Jordan Baker (b. 1981), "Too Much Is Never Enough: Lemons," 2021, oil/canvas

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Bright color and light to this cup of tea, by Russian artist Elena Katsyura, who specializes in oil paintings of 'tablescapes' and fine china.

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Breakfast is now a memory and what's left behind is a beautifully rendered work of light and color by Hawaian based artist Laura Swytak.

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'Olive Trees at Tivoli' 1873, watercolor by American atist George Inness (1825 -1894). Inness began experimenting in the medium during an extended trip to Italy (1870–74), using the small works to inspire later oil paintings.

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"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul."
W. Somerset Maugham, British novelist

'Cuttalossa Revisisted' Daniel Garber, (1880-1958)

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The allegory of this work by Britsih artist Augustus Egg is idleness vs industriousness; to the left a young woman at rest while the right represents commitment. A pre-Raphaelite work of voluminous grey dresses and realism technique. Egg was a close friend to Charles Dickens.

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"Bright reds... are very cheerful and youthful.
There is certainly a red for everyone."
Christian Dior

"Flowers Fragrance" by artist Michael Bond

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Landscape by French artist, Emile Louis Auguste Chevalier (1892-1973), "Meadow in Bloom"

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“What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.” Eugene Delacroix

'Deux Femmes dans Interieur' watercolor by Edouard Vuillard (1892)

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“Color has a power which directly influences the soul.”
~Wassily Kandinsky

'Peony Gardenia' watercolor on cotton rag paper, by British artist Mia Tarney

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"New England Valley," 1891, by Robert William Vonnoh (1858-1933), an American painter from CT who traveled extensively about the American East Coast

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A painting once known as 'the big red monster' 👀

Degas’s ‘Combing the Hair ('La Coiffure')’ is a fiery painting. Join colour historian and curator Alexandra Loske as we look closely at the pigments, technique, and tensions in the work: https://t.co/psepuZO4n9

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El próximo día 10 de junio en el interior de la Basílica se celebrará la misa solemne en homenaje a Antoni Gaudí, oficiada por el Papa León XIV y concelebrada por Cardenales, Obispos y Presbíteros, acompañados por músicos y coros de toda Cataluña que llenarán el interior de la Basílica con su canto. Su presencia conferirá al acto una dimensión única y excepcional y lo situará como uno de los momentos más destacados de la historia reciente de la Sagrada Família.

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"Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, and is on the alert against the spectrum."
Michael Derek Elworthy, English film director

Vibrant color and energy to this oil painting by American Postwar artist, Vincent Farrell (1928-2008)

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"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross roads and have their motives not be questioned."
Louis Jordan

Good light and atmosphere to this barnyard image by Australian born Modern Impressionist artist, Colley Whisson.