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Some of the strongest contemporary art has the magical power of transformation.
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For artist Ai Weiwei, the calamity of our time is the disaster of the displaced.
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In the autumn of 1914, Mondrian had an epiphany that would bring true abstraction.
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Thomas Cole regarded the US landscape as being what he called the undefiled work of Gods.
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Otto Dix and his generation had borne witness to the horrors of World War I.
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Edouard Manet created a masterpiece famed as a masterclass in visual subversion.
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Despite his interest in portraiture, Catlin he said the Native Americans must perish.
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Artemisia rebels against any notion that women shouldn't speak until spoken to.
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The Renaissance creates a contrast between ars and invenio.
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Athenian vase painters recorded and then re-enforced ideas of what wives were meant to do.
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A Syrian museum curator sacrificed his life trying to save artifacts in Palmrya.
