FAMOUS PAINTINGS

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Johannes Vermeer

The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. Today the painting is kept in the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague. It is sometimes referred to as "the Mona Lisa of the North" or "the Dutch Mona Lisa".

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Harlequin and Companion - Pablo Picasso

Picasso's "Harlequin and his Companion" painted in 1901 is a searing depiction of a couple seated at a cafe table with an empty glass and another filled with absinthe is from The Blue Period. The irony is that the couple are dressed in lively, complimenting colours and appear to be in a place of fun and should be enjoying themselves but it is obviously far from the truth. The Blue Period ranged from 1901 to 1904 and consisted of low intensity blue paintings that were the result of the suicide of Carlos Casagemas, a close friend to Picasso. The Blue Period features acrobats, harlequins, paupers, various artists, and women of the night.

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Composition No. 6 - Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Composition No. 6 was painted in 1913, it's oil on canvas and it is located in Hermitage, St Petersburg.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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