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Give thanks to the woman who brought us Thanksgiving
Continue ReadingThe First Thanksgiving is said to have taken place in 1621. The painting below is in the public domain and one of the first and only results our search came up with that shows the scene of intercultural exchange that legend says inspired the celebration. Painted 300 years after the first pilgrims arrived in this […]
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The Ink Lady
Continue ReadingI originally started this drawing three years ago as a work sample for my middle school art students. I soon realized the scale and details were far too time consuming for an assignment. I put the portrait aside assuming I’d get to it eventually. Two years went by and I rediscovered it in a neglected […]
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A small peek at Casablanca and Jemaa-el-Fnaa, Morocco
Continue ReadingRummaging through some photos in our photo chest, I found these two photos from my mother’s childhood and adolescence in Morocco, which is also where my parents met while in high school. Morocco was a French protectorate from 1912 to 1956. Many French nationals settled in Morocco while the French government exploited Morocco’s fertile lands […]
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Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
Continue ReadingThe Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca is a fortress located just outside of the city of Santiago de Cuba. It was designed by the Italian, Giovanni Battista Antonelli, to serve as protection against pirates under Cuba’s Spanish rule. Its construction lasted 62 years, from 1638 to 1700. It underwent many attacks, including ones […]
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Atelier Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, France
Continue ReadingPaul Cézanne (1839-1906) was considered as one of the great masters of Post-Impressionism (an art movement of the second half of the nineteenth century, in which a break from Impressionism was made, with a shift in the use of color, geometry, and technique). Cézanne is also widely regarded as the forefather of Cubism. Cézanne, a […]
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