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H.B. Cavalcanti

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Professor emeritus, writer, art lover

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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 23h
This work was Manet’s last painting of his favorite model, the fellow painter Victorine Meurent, who also modeled for “Olympia” and “The Luncheon on the Grass”... (Édouard Manet, “The Railway,” 1873, in the National Gallery of Art collection, in Washington, DC; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rai...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Carved in high relief from a single piece of agate, this extraordinary vase was most likely created in an imperial workshop for an emperor… (Unknown artist, “The Rubens Vase,” ca. 400 CE, Byzantine Empire, agate and gold in the Walters Art Museum collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:By...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The MFA Boston will be the only venue for “Renoir and Love” in the U.S., with works from the Musée d’Orsay and the National Gallery in London… (Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette,” 1876, oil on canvas, Musée d’Orsay collection, in Paris; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bal_du_...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A member of the Hudson River School, Beers was one of a few commercially successful professional women landscaper painters of her day… (Julie Hart Beers, “Woodland Creek,” 1877, oil on canvas, in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art; artbma.org/artwork/wood...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Typical shin-hanga (“new prints”) work, combining the traditional Japanese ukiyo-e collaboration (artist, carver, printer, publisher) with Western-style realism… (photo: Kawase Hasui, “Autumn in Shiobara, Under the Tengu Rock,” 1950, woodblock print; www.potomackcompany.com/auction-lot/...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Corot was one of the first 19th-century French artists to focus on realistic depiction of his native landscape… (photo: Jean-Baptist-Camille Corot, “Wood Gatherers at the Foot of a Large Oak,” 1872, oil on canvas, in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Krøyer painted his wife in the couple's garden the year their child was born. They rented that house in Skagen for its peaceful surroundings… (photo: Peder Severin Krøyer, “Marie in the Garden,” 1895, oil on canvas, in private collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Palestinian contemporary art, the olive tree is a central symbol of an unbroken bond to the ancestral homeland, survival, and deep roots… (photo: Maher Naji, “Olive Harvest,” 2017, oil on canvas, in the Palestinian Museum US collection, in Woodbridge, CT; progressive.org/latest/insid...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Pollock use of “Autumn” in the title refers to the earthy brown and black tones and the season’s natural, fluid movements… (photo: Jackson Pollock, “Autumn Rhythm: Number 30, 1950,” enamel painting on raw canvas, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art collection; galeriemagazine.com/lee-krasner-...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Gilded Age was a time of technological and industrial innovations. This work was commissioned for a Kodak ad… (photo: Elizabeth Shippen Green, “New Kodak,” 1906, mixed media on board, in the National Museum of American Illustration collection; americanillustration.org/gilded-age-e...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Matisse’s signature use of non-naturalistic, vibrant color to build mood show his Fauvist approach. In this case painting his wife, Amelie Matisse… (photo: Henri Matisse, “Red Madras Headdress” 1907, oil on canvas, in The Barnes Foundation collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Le...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Zoff was a prominent Austrian mood-impressionist landscape painter. His choice of palette colors for this work show the extent of his skills… (photo: Alfred Zoff, “On the Riviera [Rocky Coast],” 1887-88, oil on canvas, in the Gallery Belvedere collection, in Vienna; artvee.com/dl/an-der-ri...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What I love about this work is Manet’s playful notion that daily chores can be fun… (photo: Édouard Manet, “Laundry,” 1875, oil on canvas, in the Barnes Foundation collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C...
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wyeth painted nearly 4,000 illustrations in his career. This work was in Kenneth Roberts Little’s book, Trending into Maine, 1938… (photo: NC Wyeth, “The Doryman,” 1933, in the National Museum of American Illustration collection, in Newport, Rhode Island; americanillustration.org/project/nc-w...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In the summer of 1918, Isabella rented a cottage in Gloucester, MA. There, her friend Martin painted her reading in the garden… (photo: Martin Mower, “The Fountain,” 1918, watercolor on paper, in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum collection; www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/c...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A gifted painter, known for intricate scenes of tropical jungles, Isono traveled extensively in the South Pacific, Africa and North America… (photo: Hirō Isono, “The Great Waterfall,” n.d., acrylic on canvas, in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This work is part of the Mexican Cultural Institute’s new exhibition, “The Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro)” in San Antonio… (my photo: Lucia Zambrano, “México en la piel” (Mexico in my Skin),” n.d.)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Fischer’s Danish Impressionism captures the atmospheric light, dusk glows, and bustling city life of Copenhagen… (photo: Paul Gustav Fischer, “Evening Street,” ca. 1920, oil on canvas, in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Heinrich was best known for his detailed natural landscapes and mountain studies. He studied art in Dresden and Vienna… (photo: August Heinrich, “Rocky gorge in the Uttewalder Grund in Saxon Switzerland,” 1820, in the Belvedere Gallery collection, in Vienna; artvee.com/dl/felsensch...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Newfoundlander Post-Impressionist artist painted delicate landscapes and scenes of modern life in mosaic-like color… (photo: Maurice Prendergast, “Rocks, Waves and Figures,” ca. 1902–1904, watercolor with graphite, in The Barnes Foundation collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Unlike classic quiet luminist works, Bierstadt's show smooth, nearly visible brushstrokes for that clean, realist finish in his expansive landscapes… (photo: Albert Bierstadt, “Kings River Canyon, California,” 1873-74, oil on canvas, in private collection; www.wikiart.org/en/albert-bi...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
O’Keeffe instructed the museum to display the treetop facing the top border, in an ambiguous position. The artist laid down on the bench to paint the tree… (Georgia O’Keeffe, “The Lawrence Tree,” 1929, in the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Born in Tofino, British Columbia, Jorgensen studied at the Vancouver School of Art. He currently paints from his Vancouver Island studio… (photo: Paul Jorgensen, “On the Road to Cortona,” 2022, acrylic on canvas, in private collection; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
As seasons change I’m reminded that in the early 1930s, Kawase Hasui traveled across Japan capturing the change of its seasons… (photo: Kawase Hasui, “Lake Chuzenji at Nikko,” 1930, in the Art Institute of Chicago collection; www.artic.edu/artworks/159...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Demuth specialized in watercolors, only turning to oils late in his career. He developed a style of painting known as Precisionism… (photo: Charles Demuth, “Piano Mover’s Holiday,” 1919, distemper on composition board, in The Barnes Foundation collection; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ch...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Visconti’s later neo-realist and impressionist style include broad brushstrokes and vibrant play of light and shadow... (photo: Eliseu Visconti, “On the Way to School,” ca. 1928, oil on canvas, in the National Museum of Fine Arts collection, in Rio de Janeiro; eliseuvisconti.com.br/obra/p552/)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Amaral combines modernist and Cubist influences into bright, saturated colors and simplified, naïve forms that celebrate Brazilian national identity… (photo: Tarsila do Amaral, “Carnival in Madureira,” 1924, in the Pinacoteca de São Paulo collection; www.guggenheim-bilbao.eus/en/exhibitio...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A hsun-ok is a vessel for holding gifts and offerings made by people to Buddhist monks and monasteries… (photo: Unknown Artist, “Ceremonial Alms Bowl with Stand,” 1850-1950, Myanmar, in the Asian Art Museum collection, in San Francisco; searchcollection.asianart.org/objects/1510...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Wyeth was a leading figure in the golden age of American illustration and the patriarch of the famous Wyeth artistic family… (photo: Newell Convers Wyeth, “The Air Mail,” 1938, in the Brandywine River Museum of Art collection in Chadds Ford, PA; www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It’s Hilda Rix Nicholas’ birthday (b. 1884). The pioneer Australian artist traveled through Morocco in the 1910s documenting North African street life… (photo: Hilda Rix Nicholas, “The Moorish Archway,” 1912-14, chalk and pastel on paper; www.facebook.com/female.artis...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The St. Louis Art Museum’s “Women Impressionists and the Land” exhibition explores how central nature imagery was to the artists’ practice. This work is part of it… (photo: Edma Morisot-Pontillon, “Country Souvenir,” 1864; oil on canvas; www.slam.org/press-room/p...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In a letter to his son, he said that at 40 he was learning to paint. At 50, he saw how, but couldn’t do it. At 60, he figured it out… (photo: Camille Pissarro, “Place du Havre and Rue Amsterdam, Morning, Sunlight,” 1893, in the Art Institute of Chicago collection; eclecticlight.co/2019/09/17/p...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A Currier Museum of Art exhibition showcases three contemporary artists who draw inspiration from their New England roots. Glass is one of them… (photo: Margot Glass, “Goldthread #1 (Forest Floor),” 2024, pencil, crayon and wash on paper; www.currier.org/post/radical...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The Mexican Cultural Institute’s new exhibition, “The Meeting Point (Punto de Encuentro)” in San Antonio Mexican showcases 21 contemporary Mexican artists… (my photo: Lucia Zambrano, “Tierra de alebrijes / Land of Fantastical Dreamlike Animals,” n.d.)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This work, with its effect of energy rising upward, was created while Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus School in Dessau, Germany… (photo: Vasily Kandinsky, “Upward,” 1929, oil on cardboard, in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; www.guggenheim.org/artwork/2019)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Pissarro's Impressionist light palette and quick brushwork, also reveal elements of an earlier Realist style… (photo: Camile Pissarro, “Cabbage Patch Near the Village,” 1875, oil on canvas, in the Cincinnati Art Museum collection; collection.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/objects/1142...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This work will be one of 120 artworks included in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Painting the French Riviera” new exhibition… (photo: Claude Monet, “Morning at Antibes,” 1888, oil on canvas, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art collection; www.philamuseum.org/objects/72108)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hopper’s work, spanning oil paintings, watercolors, and etchings predominantly explores themes of loneliness and isolation… (photo: Edward Hopper, “The Solitude,” 1944, oil on canvas, in private collection; www.facebook.com/groups/Histo...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A merchant, banker, diplomat and art collector, Hainhofer designed and oversaw the creation of curiosity cabinets… (photo: Philipp Hainhofer, “Cabinet,” ca. 1640, Augsburg, Germany, Ebony, ivory, brass, and silk textile, in the Art Institute of Chicago collection; www.artic.edu/artworks/341...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For the author this work shows how fragile the balance between the natural world and technology is, how excessive development threatens our environment… (photo: Ahmad Shukri Mohamed, “Golden Gate,” 2011, acrylic on canvas, in the ILHAM collection; collection.ilhamgallery.com/arts/golden-...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Influenced by Chinua Achebe, Akunyili’s artwork also reflects a blending of Western and Nigerian styles… (photo: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, “Dwell: Aso Ebi,” 2017, acrylic, colored pencil, collage and fabric on paper, in the Baltimore Museum of Art collection; artbma.org/artwork/dwel...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Vincent van Gogh painted 36 self-portraits. This was one of his last. It was made at the Saint-Rémy asylum. And it is probably my favorite… (photo: Vincent van Gogh, “Self-Portrait,” 1889, oil on canvas, in the National Gallery of Art collection, in Washington, DC; www.nga.gov/artworks/106...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Known for his paintings of the Creuse valley, Smith’s style included a brighter palette of its woods, gardens and landscapes… (photo: Alfred Smith, “Summer Harmony,” 1911, oil on canvas, in the Musée d’Orsay collection; www.facebook.com/groups/17480...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Japonisme dates to 1872, as Japan engaged in international trade. It ran through fine and decorative arts, interior design, and graphic arts… (photo: Dominick & Haff maker, “Footed Dish,” 1880, sterling silver and gold, in the de Young Museum of Art collection; www.sfomuseum.org/about/press-...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This work is part of the National Gallery of Art’s “Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience” exhibition in Washington, DC… (photo: Tonita Peña, “Pueblo Parrot Dance,” ca. 1935, opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper; www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Celebrating Rio de Janeiro’s NMFA, which opened to the public on Aug. 19, 1938. It holds Brazil’s most important art collection… (photo: Rodolfo Chamberland, “Costume Ball,” 1913, in the National Fine Arts Museum collection, in Rio de Janeiro; carnaxequadros.wordpress.com/2016/12/06/m...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Alma-Tadema uses the Theater of Dionysos setting to illustrate a scene from Hermesianax’s “Banquet of the Learned” poem… (photo: Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, “Sappho and Alcaeus,” 1881, oil on canvas, in the Walters Art Museum collection; art.thewalters.org/object/37.159/)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Birthday of French painter Claude-Joseph Vernet (b. 1714), known for a seascape style that remained unchanged throughout his life… (photo: “Night: a Mediterranean Coast Scene with Fishermen and Boats,” 1753, in the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid; www.museothyssen.org/en/collectio...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This work is a featured piece of the High Museum of Art touring exhibition “Amy Sherald: America Sublime” in Atlanta… (photo: Amy Sherald, “A God Blessed Land (Empire of Dirt),” 2022, oil on linen, in the Tymure collection; high.org/press-releas...)
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H.B. Cavalcanti @hbcf.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This iconic work was based on a restaurant Hopper saw on Greenwich Avenue, New York. “I was painting the loneliness of a large city,” he said… (photo: Edward Hopper, “Nighthawks,” 1942, oil on canvas, in the Art Institute of Chicago collection; www.artic.edu/artworks/111...)
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