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The Real Corpses That Served as Models for the Doomed Crew of the “Raft of the Medusa”

Avatar photo by Allison Meier October 25, 2016October 25, 2016

For his most monumental painting, Théodore Géricault borrowed corpses from morgues and asylums to capture the ghastly horror of the 1816 Medusa shipwreck.

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J.M.W. Turner, the Sublime, and Me

by Larissa Archer May 18, 2015May 21, 2015

LOS ANGELES — “You don’t experience the sublime looking through double glazing, or at a distant electric storm, or watching a sea rage on TV.”

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Nirvana for Lovers of Victoriana

Avatar photo by Olivia McEwan February 25, 2015February 26, 2015

LONDON — A Victorian Obsession is a touring exhibition of the largest collection of Victorian painting outside Great Britain: 52 works of consistently staggering technical quality and significance, owned by Mexican businessman Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.

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The Romantic Symbolism of Trees

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 10, 2014June 13, 2014

The Romantic landscape artists of the 18th and 19th century were so obsessed with nature and the skies above that in 1856 critic John Ruskin called the frenzy “modern-day cloud worship.”

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Who Is the Real Monster in Frankenstein?

by Alicia Eler November 15, 2013November 15, 2013

CHICAGO — There’s an archetypal monster in your mind, and his name is Frankenstein. In a lecture presented this past Saturday, November 9, at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Heather Keenleyside discussed this notorious monster in relation to this year’s theme “Animal: What Makes Us Human?”

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When Nightmares in Art Were All the Horrifying Rage

Avatar photo by Allison Meier August 29, 2013December 4, 2015

The horror of what your brain can do when you give it up to sleep is universal, yet the heyday of the nightmare in art seems to have passed.

Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries
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Iranian Artist Minoo Emami’s Retrospective Opens at the Hartford Art School Galleries

Featuring two decades of interdisciplinary art along with new work created in response to the ongoing Women’s Rights Movement in Iran, the exhibition is on view in Hartford, Connecticut.

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