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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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The Lilies of the Valley Fabergé Egg

The Lilies of the Valley Fabergé Egg

April 30, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 19th century ArtArt NouveauTeaching Resources

Fabergé’s Lilies of the Valley Egg — pink enamel, pearl blossoms, hidden Romanov portraits — captures Imperial Russia’s breathtaking opulence and tender family devotion in one exquisite Art Nouveau masterpiece.

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Oskar Kokoschka's Triptych – Hades and Persephone, The Apocalypse, Prometheus

The Prometheus Triptych by Oskar Kokoschka

April 4, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtMythologyTeaching Resources

Kokoschka’s monumental Prometheus Triptych — myth, apocalypse, and regeneration blazing across three panels — confronts postwar humanity’s arrogance and existential crisis with extraordinary Expressionist urgency.

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Marc Chagall's Ceiling of the Opéra Garnier in Paris

Chagall’s magnificent ceiling at the Opéra Garnier

March 10, 2024
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtFrench Art

Chagall’s dreamlike 560-square-metre dome at the Opéra Garnier — dancers, musicians, and opera scenes swirling in luminous colour — unites modern wonder with Belle Époque grandeur magnificently.

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Thomas Hart Benton, American Artist, 1889-1975, Achelous and Hercules (and detail), 1947

Achelous and Hercules

November 9, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtMythologyTeaching Resources

Explore Thomas Hart Benton’s masterful 1947 mural reimagining the Greek myth of Achelous and Hercules — a powerful fusion of classical mythology and the American Midwest’s spirit of strength and abundance.

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Andrew Wyeth, American Artist, 1917-2009, November First, 1950

November First

October 31, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtAmerican ArtTeaching Resources

Through muted ochres and November greys, Andrew Wyeth’s watercolour November First tenderly captures the quiet beauty of decay and renewal — a meditation on solitude, nature’s cycles, and passing time.

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Peter McIntyre, Artist from New Zealand, 1910-1885, The Barge from Crete, 1941, Oils on Canvas, 746 x 635mm, New Zealand Archives

Peter McIntyre’s Paintings of the Battle of Crete

October 27, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century Art

Discover Peter McIntyre’s powerful paintings of the 1941 Battle of Crete — a New Zealand war artist’s firsthand visual record of courage, sacrifice, and the unforgettable human cost of war.

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The Dance by Matisse at the Barnes Foundation

September 8, 2023
by Amalia Spiliakou 20th century ArtFrench ArtTeaching Resources

Explore Matisse’s monumental The Dance at the Barnes Foundation — a triumphant return to modernist boldness, where sweeping figures across pink and blue fields reignited a great master’s creative genius.

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