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80 notes, tags: #art #whistler #tonalism 
James McNeill Whistler, The Pond Moonlight
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184 notes, tags: #de schryver #art #realism 
Louis Marie de Schryver, Beauty amid Rose Petals
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175 notes, tags: #art #de schryver #realism 
Louis Marie de Schryver, The Flower Seller, Avenue de L’Opera, Paris
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93 notes, tags: #osbert #art #symbolism 
Alphonse Osbert, Nymph Endremie
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68 notes, tags: #art #schwabe #symbolism 
Carlos Schwabe, Elysian Fields
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127 notes, tags: #art #whistler #tonalism 
James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne, Grey and Gold
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132 notes, tags: #art #redon #symbolism 
Odilon Redon, Ophélie au milieu des fleurs
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277 notes, tags: #art #waterhouse #pre-raphaelite 
John William Waterhouse, The Danaïdes
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50 notes, tags: #mannerism #renaissance #art #Bacchiacca 
Francesco Ubertini Bacchiacca II, Portrait of a Lady
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93 notes, tags: #seascape #art #Backhuysen 
Ludolf Backhuysen, Ships in Distress in a Heavy Storm
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91 notes, tags: #art #de morgan #pre-raphaelite 
Evelyn de Morgan, Luna
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12 notes colourthysoul said: Mr. / Mrs. Anonymous doesn't seem to understand the meaning of art at all and what it is all about. There is no good or bad, right or wrong. Narrow-minded people will never understand art and creativity and the most wonderful, interesting and exciting things that come along with it. Variety is the word. So keep the works coming. :-)

It actually touches a difficult subject, to say art cannot be good nor bad, and right nor wrong. I will not elaborate because I will only ramble on and on (not that anyone is interested in my personal life but I am very interested in this particular topic and am trying to get it through at my university to be able to do a minor Aesthetics (Philosophy of Art) at another university) and get to no conclusion at all but I will simply say that it is hard to define what art is or should be. The Mr. or Mrs. Anonymous simply touched the subject of taste which is a lot easier eliminated with that it is only a personal matter. I don’t like all the art either, I hate some art, and I even think there is something wrong with an attitude towards art that appreciates it all simply for the sake of it being ‘art’. But I agree very much that variety is the word! And we try, thank you!

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14 notes Anonymous said: why don't you post any asian art?

because my knowledge of that goes as far as ‘Van Gogh was inspired by Japanese illustrations’! I would love to know more but I simply haven’t had any education on it so it’s kind of not my place to post anything about it.

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2 notes chocolategreen said: Thanks to this blog I found the greatest artworks ever and I could enjoy the variety that art can offer us. Thank you for that.

We enjoy it so much as well! thank you for the big compliment.

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1 note prayingiamlost said: I really admire some of the works you have on here! There's a great variety and I find it so interesting to compare and contrast them all.. not only in visual depictions, but also in what they say and the overall statement each work makes. Glad I followed this blog!

thank you! how great the blog can evoke so much thought. the original purpose was indeed to show a varied pick of art, from artists of all ages and movements. (well, except that it is still only western art history)

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