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Yayoi Kusama's painting of Pumpkins.

Pumpkins

November 27, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

Discover Yayoi Kusama’s Pumpkins by Yayoi Kusama—a vision of repetition, infinity, and connection where polka dots transform harvest symbols into cosmic unity.

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Grandma Moses’ The Old Oaken Bucket in 1800

October 31, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Grandma Moses, beginning her painting career in her late 70s, captures in The Old Oaken Bucket a nostalgic, folk-art vision of rural America — timeless, warm, and beautifully simple.

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Sketchbook by Hans Liska showing Stukas returning from their mission at Crete in the first light of the rising sun, the Parthenon in the background

Stukas returning from their mission at Crete

October 27, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

Hans Liska’s watercolour places Nazi Stukas beside the eternal Parthenon — a jarring collision of fleeting military ambition and timeless human achievement, echoed in a haunting Haiku.

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Jo Sketching at Good Harbor Beach by Edward Hopper

August 18, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Hopper’s luminous watercolour captures Jo sketching quietly on Good Harbor Beach — a tender, intimate moment where two artists, sunlight, and the Atlantic shoreline beautifully converge.

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Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Boys on the Beach

Boys on the Beach by Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida

July 26, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century Art

Sorolla’s Boys on the Beach blazes with Mediterranean light and childhood freedom — three sun-kissed boys in sparkling water, joyfully defying Dunbar’s eloquent seaside silence.

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Thaleia Flora Karavia, Girl on the Beach

Girl on the Beach by Thaleia Flora Karavia

July 8, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtModern Greek ArtTeaching Resources

Thaleia Flora Karavia — war artist, impressionist, trailblazer — captured Greek life with extraordinary sensitivity, from sun-drenched beach scenes to the deeply human face of wartime suffering.

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White Flag

July 3, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Johns’ ghostly White Flag drains America’s iconic symbol of colour and certainty — transforming patriotic familiarity into profound, haunting ambiguity through encaustic’s extraordinarily rich, layered touch.

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Paul Signac, Venice, the Yellow Sail, 1904

The Yellow Sail

June 25, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtFrench ArtPost-ImpressionismTeaching Resources

Signac’s Venice, the Yellow Sail — a luminous Pointillist masterpiece — captures the Adriatic city’s shimmering magic through vibrant dots of pure colour, radiant light, and Mediterranean joy.

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Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Knossos Veil

The Knossos Veil

June 20, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtArt NouveauTeaching Resources

Fortuny’s Knossos Veil — ancient Greece reimagined in luminous silk — bridges Minoan fresco and Venetian haute couture, a timeless masterpiece born from one extraordinary couple’s shared artistic vision.

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Gustav Klimt, The Three Ages of the Woman

The Three Ages of the Woman

May 12, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtArt NouveauTeaching Resources

Klimt’s Three Ages of Woman — infant, mother, and bowed elder — weaves gold, symbolism, and tender mortality into one profoundly beautiful, timelessly resonant allegorical masterpiece.

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