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In his 30s, Vincent van Gogh was short on money and struggled to find models to pose for his paintings. So he decided to paint a new subject: himself. He made about 36 self–portraits and painted his last during a stay at an asylum.
“Woman with a Parasol” by Claude Monet. That’s it. That’s the tweet.
You’re alone in a quiet museum gallery with Thomas Cole's "Voyage of Life" 🙏
Crossing my fingers this is the new Editor-in-Chief of Vogue. #DapperDan
John Singer Sargent made a name for himself painting the rich and famous, but he grew to hate it: “No more paughtraits...I abhor and abjure them and hope never to do another especially of the Upper Classes.” By 1907, he traveled the world to paint landscapes. #TheGildedAge
In this painting, René Magritte does what he does best: he takes our familiar world, breaks it into pieces, and then reassembles it…
