Tag: paintings
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Deep Waters by Lilias Trotter
Art as faith. Faith as art. “‘I am come into deep waters’ took on a new meaning this morning. It started with perplexing matters concerning the future. Then it dawned that shallow waters were a place where you can neither sink nor swim, but in deep waters it is one or the other: ‘waters to…
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Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is a masterpiece, illustrating our evolving associations with the color blue. Titian’s Bacchus and Ariadne is one of the finest and most famous paintings in the National Gallery. The Cretan princess Ariadne has been abandoned on the Greek island of Naxos by Theseus, whose ship is shown in the distance, at lower left.…
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Italian Girl With Flowers by Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s early portrait of youthful innocence is a masterwork of light. Rendered in liquid, dreamy oils in 1886, Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida’s impressionist portrait of a young Italian girl’s reverie both presages his later work while also standing resolutely apart. Sorolla y Bastida would later become known for epic works…
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“The Sea” by James Reeves
A poem doesn’t have to be complicated to be wonderful. Poetry can be simple. It can also be quiet profound. It’s often both, at the same time. It gives voice to the world around us, in all its incomprehensible wonder and vastness. It helps us to position ourselves within us, writing hymns and lamentations and…