Da Magia

Maurice Denis, Paysage aux arbres verts ou Les Hêtres de Kerduel (1893, Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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“You know what the issue is with this world? Everyone wants some magical solution to their problem and everyone refuses to believe in magic.”

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The Mad Hatter,
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Uma Páscoa Feliz!

Caspar David Friedrich, Easter Morning (1835)

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Maurice Denis, Easter Morning (Easter Mystery) (1891)

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Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky, Easter Table

Abril

Irmãos Limbourg, Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry: Avril (1412-1416, Musée Condé, Chantilly)

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António de Holanda (atribuído), Livro de Horas, Calendário (mês de Abril) (1517-1551, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

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Oficina de Simon Bening, Livro de Horas, Calendário (mês de Abril) (1530-1534, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga)

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Jacob van Huysum, Twelve months of flowers: April (séc. XVIII, Fitzwilliam Museum)

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Martin Johnson Heade, April Showers (1868, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

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Maurice Denis, April (1892, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo)

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Martiros Saryan, April landscape (1944)

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Norman Rockwell, April Fool Girl with Shopkeeper (1948)

Definição de Pintura

Pintura de Zurbarán, Natureza Morta com Laranjas, Limões e uma Rosa (1633, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena).

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We should remember that a picture - before being a war horse, a nude woman, or telling some other story - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours arranged in a particular pattern.

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Maurice Denis (1890).