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Czechoslovakian Army Entering Vladivostok, Siberia, in 1918 by George Luks, 1918
This shows Czech Legion troops marching into Vladivostok in 1918, deep in the chaos of the Russian Civil War. Luks was usually known for gritty city scenes, not history painting on this scale.
Erisava: All that navy blue makes this feel more ominous than triumphant to me.
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Construction Site in Amsterdam by George Hendrik Breitner, 1902
It's said that he photographed sites like this and then rebuilt the scene back in the studio, so what looks grabbed in a single moment was actually pieced together afterward. He ran in the same circles as Van Gogh and, from what I've read, wanted to paint ordinary working people rather than grand subjects.
Erisava: Is this actually art, or just a record of a building site?
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Siberian Shepherd Dogs by Franz Marc, 1909
Tthe model was apparently his own dog — a big white shepherd — and some say it's the same dog painted twice. A couple of years later he was the man doing blue horses and yellow cows; this is just before all that started.
Erisava: Whoever painted this clearly loved dogs.
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Harlem River Winter Scene by Ernest Lawson, 1910
They say he painted this same stretch of river over and over, in every season, because he lived close by — and that a critic once joked his paint was so thick and glittery it looked like crushed jewels.
Erisava: It's pretty, but would you actually cross a room for it?
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Paris in Winter by Pierre Dumont, 1912
I couldn't find much on him — apparently he helped start a painters' group back in Rouen, and had a rough life, in and out of hospitals. That's about all there is.
Erisava: This is the gloomiest winter I've ever seen. Winter as a mood, not a postcard.
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Street Scene with Snow (57th Street, NYC.) by Robert Henri, 1902
The story goes he told his students to paint the city as it actually was, slush and all, while polite taste wanted prettier things. His crowd got called the Ashcan School for it — which apparently started out as an insult.
Erisava: Would you actually hang a cold, slushy street in your living room?