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by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881 · France
A crowd of Parisians has been caught by the rain on a city street, and umbrellas open above them like a dark canopy — a whole flock of them, ribs and points overlapping so densely that the sky almost disappears behind them. Renoir plants us right in the middle of the crush. Look at the young woman…
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1735-1790Japan
Isoda Koryūsai turned a second career into one of the busiest workshops of eighteenth-century Edo, producing roughly 2,500 print designs and about ninety paintings, including scenes like Bijin in Front of a Tiger Screen and Beauty Beneath a Willow Tree. Look for how he bends kimono folds into flowing diagonals, a skill honed in the tall, narrow pillar-print format, giving even quiet domestic moments like Mother and Child at Play a sense of movement.
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