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In Sunday Morning (1940), artist Emil Kosa Jr. (1903 –1968) captures a quiet scene with people arriving at a little church in the California countryside. In wagons and on foot, they gather from all around, many coming down the hill from the houses we can see in the distant background.
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In life, you will inevitably encounter obstacles en route to success. It will be an excruciating moment if you see your children facing challenges they don’t know how to deal with. You might be wondering, how will you teach your children to stand on their own? Continue reading The Benefits Of Daily Morning Prayer For Children
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Skyscrapers loom over older buildings, planes fly overhead, and people crowd the sidewalks in this dramatic bird’s-eye view of Manhattan’s Wall Street. Bertram Hartman’s meaning may not be quite so straightforward, however. He painted Trinity Church And Wall Street in 1929, the year of a great stock market crash that devastated the nation’s economy. By showing the gothic series of Trinity Church overshadowed by skyscrapers, Hartman may have intended his viewers to contemplate the relationship between spiritual and material needs in modern life.
Photographed in the Brooklyn Museum.
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Standing on Avenue B and looking east down 8th Street, I saw an unidentifiable Pink Thing that caught my eye, and I went to investigate. Because: Pink Thing.
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Born in New York to German American musicians, Lyonel Charles Feininger (1871 – 1956) travelled to Germany in 1887, and remained in Europe for several years to study art. While in Paris, he encountered Cubism and embraced its rationality and abstraction of form and space. “Cubism is a synthesis,” the painter explained, “but it may be degraded into mechanism. My Cubism is visionary, not physical.”
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