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An online publication focused on the critique and analysis of art, literature, and a few other subjects.

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Death of Commissar, Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1928

As a sort of prelude to an essay I am writing on Russian art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I’ve chosen to write three essays, each about a single work by a member of, respectively, the groups Peredvizhniki, Mir Iskusstva, and P...

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Barge Haulers on the Volga, Ilya Repin, 1873

Barge Haulers on the Volga is probably the work for which Ilya Repin is most known, both within and without Russia. Well, it was certainly given by the artist the devotion which ought to be due in order to receive celebrity and praise. From...

10 days ago
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Venice, the Bridge of Sighs, J. M. W. Turner, 1840

I’m not terribly hot for cyclical theory,1 but none can deny that there are epochs which begin and which end, and whose history can be seen pretty clearly. J. M. W. Turner’s Venice, the Bridge of Sighs, 1840, gives us proof that he lived at...

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Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia, Jeon-Leon Gerome, 1861

We can say very little about either the technical or allegorical side of this painting, Socrates Seeking Alcibiades in the House of Aspasia, painted in 1861 by the academicist Jeon-Leon Gerome, for its painter, one of the best academic pain...

17 days ago
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Ballet Rehearsal on Stage, Degas, 1874

Friends, I thought I’d begin writing another new series concerning art—that is, visual art. This one shall be devoted to a rather more compendious spirit than my longer writings on art are. Instead of covering the whole of an artist, in thi...

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