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French landscape painter Charles-Francois Daubigny's love of open air painting is believed to have set an important example for the Impressionists.

On view: Charles-Francois Daubigny, Landscape Along a Country Road, ca. 1860

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The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. | Artes Magazine Pinned Resources The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Posted by admin, on September 23, 20130 The Phillips Collection, opened to the public in 1921 in Washington’s vibrant Dupont Circle neighborhood presents works of modern art in an intimate setting.. Paintings by Renoir and Rothko, Bonnard and O’Keeffe, Van G...

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Artes Magazine Pinned Resources | WelcomeARTES regularly presents in-depth articles and opinion on artwork in all its forms: painting, sculpture, art installations and photography. Our fine art reporting also includes architecture and design. Our experienced team reports on recent and upcoming museum and art gallery exhibitions in c...

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Sacred Symbol of Armenian Church, National Identity Caught Up in Regional Politics | ARTES MAGA The Cross is arguably the most familiar symbol of Christianity, but nowhere is this iconography as crucial or culture-entrenched, as it is in Armenia. Wherever you go, thousands of khachkars, or Armenian cross-stones, pervade the mountainous conscience of the world’s oldest Christian nation, providi...

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Mass MoCA Showcases Chinese Contemporary Artist, Xu Bing | ARTES MAGAZINE In 1995, the gallery of the Massachusetts College of Art presented Language Lost, a deconstruction of text and communication by Xu Bing. Seventeen years later Phoenix, two enormous, junk metal birds (left), are suspended in the vast space of Building Five of Mass MoCA. They will remain on view for t...

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California Impressionism: Paintings from Irvine Collection at U. New Hampshire Museum | ARTES M During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, California’s spectacular landscape was the catalyst for a profusion of light-filled paintings. Artists determined to capture its vivid colors painted the landscapes in a distinctive style that has come to be called California Impressionism or Cali...