Alexandre Nestor Nicolas Robert Art

Large Italian painting signed and dated 1898. Oil on canvas, first canvas, artwork depicting a portrait, Milanese noblewoman, of good pictorial quality. Painting of great size and im...

Abstract oil painting on canvas by Robert Berger.

Michael Tole says of his work… This work draws a connection between the didactic moralizing tendencies of Neo Classicism (represented in the style of the painting) and Modernism (represented in the architectural setting). Though modern art eschews the naturalistic imagery used by Neo Classicists, both movements pursued a self-important, austere, self-consciously masculine aesthetic that they saw as synonymous with virtue. Set in the MoMA courtyard, a passel of men lounge about, regarding a golden statue which looks terribly out of place in this modernist vitrine. The uncomfortable architectural setting, prisonlike and cold, provides a foil for the odalisque-like young men sprawled on hard stone benches and paying homage to the central idol. In my current work, The Revisionist Histories, I am writing letters to art history, literature, and mythology in an attempt to reflect the social changes that have reshaped our society over the past century.  As part of this agenda, I explore the evolution of gender norms, power dynamics, and representation within Western visual culture and what this implies for the negotiation between pleasure, justice, and our culturally specific discourse on beauty.    The seed for The Revisionist Histories was sewn when I caught a glimpse of my preteen daughters watching music videos on their iPad as I chopped veggies for dinner.  Out of the corner of my eye I caught glimpses of music videos featuring Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry, and Doja Cat gyrating across the tiny screen.  A better parent might have snatched the iPad away, but I was overcome with hallucinatory visions of this pop diva...

This charming original oil painting by Edwin Thomas Roberts (1840–1917), titled The Reading Lesson, beautifully captures a quiet domestic moment with the warmth and sentiment charact...

Robert Gardelle portrait Swiss oil painting, 18th century, Switzerland. A portrait by painted Robert Gardelle. Signed a tergo / on the back R. Gardelle...

A wonderful Mid-Century Modern original oil on canvas painting featuring a surrealistic somewhat strange and odd portrait of a dark eyed nude woman/female model sitting pensively in ...

This is a portrait artwork of a woman portrait painting, woman in black dress reading a note, end of XIX century. This is a portrait of a young woman wearing a black dress in a 19th...

A fabulous vintage Regency original oil portrait. A chic 1954 composition signed by the artist. A masterful work on canvas with the original frame. Acquired from a PA estate.

The antique unframed oil painting on canvas is in the Renaissance style. Two ladies are conversing with the man on the right. Canvas is stretched...

Antique charming painting, still life of flowers and very exclusive products for that time, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right L. Bouchu, France 1912. In good antique condi...

Oil on canvas Dondi Schwartz is an Israeli artist born in Canada in 1961 who lives and works in the Kibbutz Beeri, Negev, Israel. Schwartz studied art at the Avni School of Arts in...

This painting is a quietly luminous depiction of a snow-covered garden in winter, rendered in oil on canvas at H 23.6 in x W 28.7 in. Bare deciduous trees dominate the foreground and...

An alluring vintage painting on canvas by Belgian artist Antoon Luyckx (1922-2017), it appears to be a self-portrait of him in front of a canvas (work-in-progress) staring back at th...

Vintage (20th Century) large, unframed canvas oil painting of a black, white and brown beagle standing upright with a slight tilt of the head in a field of grass, with river, forest ...

Antique Framed Oil Painting on Canvas signed Rainbo depicts the interior of a cathedral, most likely the most prominent church in the city. The artist has used a superb sense of per...