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Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
Explore one of humanity’s deepest artistic urges: the depiction of nature.
Travel east and west— to Renaissance Italy and the contemporaneous Islamic empires.
See how art became the great interface when distant cultures met for the first time.
Consider how religion has inspired art and art has inspired divine representation.
Examine the formative role of art and the creative imagination in the forging of humanity.
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For artist Ai Weiwei, the calamity of our time is the disaster of the displaced.
Some of the strongest contemporary art has the magical power of transformation.
Explore art in the age of revolution, war and profound scientific change.
Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I.
Edouard Manet created a masterpiece famed as a masterclass in visual subversion.
Despite his interest in portraiture, Catlin he said the Native Americans must perish.
Thomas Cole regarded the US landscape as being what he called the undefiled work of Gods.
Explore light and color in art in the search for greater realism and spiritual ecstasy.
For Renaissance art theorists, drawing always came before color.
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