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Henri Matisse, the Cut-Outs

Matisse Cut-Outs

June 11, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

Matisse’s Cut-Outs distill abstraction into joyful essence—scissors, colour, and form uniting in late works that redefine painting as playful composition, inspiring timeless creativity and student engagement.

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Hôtel Hannon

Brussels Virtual Destination

May 3, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment Art NouveauTeaching Resources

Brussels embodies Art Nouveau elegance—its curved lines and organic forms shaping a city of architectural beauty, where imagination, design, and European identity meet in a harmonious, marsh-born capital.

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Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company,  Design Drawing and Glass Bowl

A Tiffany Drawing and the final product!

February 25, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment 19th century ArtAmerican ArtArt Nouveau

Tiffany’s luminous enamel-on-copper bowl, crafted by Julia Munson’s all-women workshop, dazzles with three-dimensional plums among leaves — a rare, shimmering masterpiece of extraordinary craftsmanship and organic beauty.

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Three artworks by Roy Lichtenstein inspired by the Sun

A Roy Lichtenstein Trilogy

January 5, 2020
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

Lichtenstein’s Sunrise trilogy transforms the ephemeral sun into Pop Art form—spanning painting, enamel, and fashion—where comic abstraction turns landscape, light, and perception into bold, ironic modern iconography.

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Georges Braque, Essor (The Flight) I

The Flight

December 29, 2019
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment 20th century ArtTeaching Resources

Braque’s The Flight transforms birds into poetic abstraction—where motion, memory, and nature dissolve into rhythm, evoking a meditative passage from physical form toward artistic and existential freedom.

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Tiffany Hair Ornament

Reverence for Nature and Tiffany

November 13, 2019
by Amalia Spiliakou with No Comment American ArtArt NouveauTeaching Resources

Inspired by nature’s fleeting beauty, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s dragonfly hair ornament captures fragility, luminosity, and exquisite craftsmanship—an Art Nouveau jewel where delicate forms celebrate life’s ephemeral grace.

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