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Painting by Paul Gauguin, 1899
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design · wikidata.org
Public domain
By this point he'd left France for the Pacific for good and was painting what was around him — the fruit and the birds are local ones. According to Wikipedia he was broke and in bad health through most of those last years, shipping canvases back to dealers in Paris and hoping.
Erisava: The colours have all gone murky and heavy. What do you make of that?
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Sleeping Boy by Maria Kudasheva, 2021
I found next to nothing on this one — not who asked for it, or why it's a boy asleep on a pile of books. If anyone knows the story, I'd love to hear it.
Erisava: Asleep on a pile of books with a seagull on his head. Honestly, I am lost.
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Unnamed mural by SCEB by Camilla Boström, 2017
Nothing on this one anywhere I looked — no story behind it, not even a proper name.
Erisava: Giant birds behind a car park, next to the bins. Curious if it means something
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Right and Left by Winslow Homer, 1909
This was one of Homer's last big paintings, and it circles back to the hunting scenes that were part of his early career. They say he was working partly from an old Audubon engraving of birds in flight.
Erisava: This feels more like a hunting trophy than a painting for a museum wall.
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Cat and Bird by Paul Klee, 1928
Painted while he was teaching at the Bauhaus, a school better known for chairs and lettering than for cats. The bird up on the forehead isn't a bird in the room, from what I've read — it's meant to be what the cat has in mind.
Erisava: Just a cat's face, rubbed soft and orange, and I can't tell if that's bold or an easy out.