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Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock, rough up your composure and then proceed in short order to rearrange your sense of reality. (The Power of Art, Simon Schama)Artists
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Things Heard at the Museum
Jan Steen, Merry Company on a Terrace, ca. 1670, oil on canvas, 141x131.4 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? 1956. Collage on paper, 10¼ x 9¼ in. Kunsthalle, Tübingen (via hmmcinteresting)
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class, 1874, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
Norman Rockwell, Freedom from Want, 1943, oil on canvas, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA