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Camille Pissarro was notable among his fellow impressionist painters in that he often put trees at the center of his compositions instead of using them primarily as a framing device. He also…
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Camille Pissarro
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1877
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Excerpts from The Death of Moses, a legendary account of the death of Moses from the literature of the Beta Israel community, in Arabic and Ge’ez, researched by scholar Jacques Faïtlovich in Ethiopia.
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1906
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Camille Pissarro
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1903
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In The Turkish Family, the term Turkish is likely a placeholder for a portrait of a modern Sephardic Jewish family like that of the artist. Notably, the family members wear modern European fashions…
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Jules Pascin
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1907
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Chaim Soutine’s self-portrait is both an homage to art history and a critique of it. There was a long tradition of artists painting themselves facing an easel, holding a palette and paint brushes. But…
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Chaim Soutine
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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ca. 1918
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He Cast a Look and Went Mad depicts traditional East European Jews in some sort of religious setting but invokes in its title the classic talmudic legend of the sage who “looked and was injured” when…
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Maurycy Minkowski
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1910
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Sailor with Guitar is one of Jacques Lipchitz’s early cubist sculptures, an experiment in translating painterly cubist concepts into three dimensions. The figure of the sailor was inspired by sailors…
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Jacques Lipchitz
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1914
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To one who honors you, Lord, be just,
And may my sonorous work be blessed.
Dear lord, by your will be it wrought
That out of nothing comes a new Thought.
Let it be pure, proud, faithful…
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Catulle Mendès
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1900
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Art today is the only thing constructed, an end in itself, about which no more need be said, such richness vitality meaning wisdom: to understand to see.
To describe a flower—poetry…
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Tristan Tzara
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1917
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“Tanzstudie,” from Hans Brandenburg’s Der moderne Tanz.
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Alexander Sacharoff
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1910