An Unseemingly Bold Painting
Nobody has painted the story of Zeuxis’ commission to paint a portrait of Helen of Troy as authentically as Angelica Kauffman did in the 18th century. She inserted herself as an icon of women empowerment.
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The Canvas makes weekly videos on various artworks, famous or not, from different eras....

An Artist Before And After The War

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Nudaybah Shahid at Germinal, our artist residency #artist #art #residency

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The 24h Art Theft

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Anguish | A Painting By August Friedrich Schenck

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The Art of Interpreting Art

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The Ex**ution of Lady Jane Grey | A Political Painting

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I Looked For Meaning In This Painting And This Is What I Learned

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Art, Truth & Authoritarianism

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This Artist Dreamed of The Sea

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Painting The Most Honest Nude

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Hopper's Last Painting

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@TheCinemaCartography Is Wrong About Can't Help Myself

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Contemporary Art Can Be Good, Actually

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The Unknown Artist Who Painted Dreams

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How Artists From The Past Depicted Nightmares

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How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame

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How This Artist Fell In Love With His Own Art

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Can This Artist Paint A Good Terrorist?

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The Failure of Surrealism

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His First (And Best) Realist Painting

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How Magritte Painted His Trauma

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Artist Residency Update: We Want YOU & Our First Exhibition

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Painting An Execution

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Why This Artist Kept Painting The Apocalypse

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More Than Boxing | George Bellow's Art

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Why American Gothic Actually Became Iconic

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Why This Gut-Wrenching Scene Became So Popular

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The Painter Who Grieved Through His Art

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Wage Slavery & Anticapitalist Slavers

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Animal Farm

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The Artist Residency Is Ready!

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A Guide to Anarchy | Errico Malatesta

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How YouTubers Look At Art | ft. @GreatArtExplained & @AmorSciendi

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Art History ClickBait | You Will NEVER Believe It!

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How Picasso Made Art Under Nazi Rule In Occupied France

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Prager U On Modern Art | Fascism?

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Why Are Creepy Paintings So Damn Popular?

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He DESTROYED His Million Dollar Paintings

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Does Art Need Purpose?, Chatting And Hanging Out

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Art for Art's Sake | Does Art Need Purpose?

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Basquiat and The Paradox of Black Law Enforcement

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A Guide to Propaganda

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Leonardo's Unfinished Painting | Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice

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No, Ai "Art" is not Art.

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The German Painting Everyone Thinks Is American

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How A Black Man Was Immortalized In The Raft Of The Medusa

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Evil in Andor | The Banality of Evil

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Lessons From A Nazi Artist

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Painting The Most Realist Nude

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Drawing His Darkest Dreams | Odilon Redon's Noirs

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How A Painting Started A Revolution

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How Should We React to Van Gogh Being Vandalized?

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Gericault's Last Portrait

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The Story Behind These Heartbreaking Pictures | Serra Pelada

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Banksy, Kurt Cobain, and The Paradox That Claimed Them

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An Unseemingly Bold Painting

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An Artist's Horrifying Reaction to 9/11

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When Norman Rockwell Attempted to Paint Like Pollock | The Connoisseur

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My Thoughts on Escape Into Meaning by Evan Pucshak | @nerdwriter1

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Why Did the Elite Fear the Gleaners?

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Why Did Caravaggio Behead Himself in This Painting?

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Why Did Edward Hopper Paint This Clown?

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How One Man Fought Hitler Through Propaganda

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