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The Solis Prints Journal

Journal

Essays, profiles, and notes on art history.

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Art Institute of Chicago.

American Art

Hopper Painted Loneliness Before America Had a Name For It

Gustav Klimt, Beethoven Frieze (detail: This Kiss to the Whole World), 1902. Vienna Secession.

Art History

Klimt Painted a 34-Metre Frieze for an Exhibition That Lasted Three Months

John Everett Millais, Ophelia, 1851-52. Tate Britain, London.

Art History

Seven Young Men Signed Their Paintings PRB and Refused to Explain

Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, 1915 (later version, c. 1923). Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Art History

Malevich Painted a Black Square in 1915 and Hung It in the Icon Corner

Thomas Cole, The Consummation of Empire, 1836. New-York Historical Society.

American Art

Thomas Cole Painted American Landscape as a Warning, Not a Postcard

Sonia Delaunay, Electric Prisms, 1914. Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Art History

Delaunay Sold Dresses to Pay for the Paintings That Made Her Famous

The Bauhaus building, Dessau, designed by Walter Gropius, 1925-26.

Architecture

The Bauhaus Lasted Fourteen Years and Reshaped the Twentieth Century

Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, c. 1818. Hamburger Kunsthalle.

Art History

Friedrich's Wanderer Has His Back to You for a Reason

Hilma af Klint, The Ten Largest, No. 7, Adulthood, 1907. Hilma af Klint Foundation, Stockholm.

Abstraction

The Swedish Artist Who Painted Abstraction Five Years Before Kandinsky

Francisco Goya, Saturn Devouring His Son, 1819-1823. Museo del Prado, Madrid.

Art History

Goya Painted His Last Works on the Walls of His Own House

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1612-13. Museo di Capodimonte, Naples.

Art History

Gentileschi: She Painted Judith Beheading Holofernes Twice

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893. Tempera and pastel on cardboard. National Museum of Norway, Oslo.

Art History

Munch: The Scream Was Painted Four Times

Wall painting from the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii. The initiation cycle, c. 60-50 BC.

Ancient Art

Pompeii: The Roman Houses That Survived Their Owners

Henri Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy, 1897. Oil on canvas. Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Art History

Henri Rousseau: The Sunday Painter Who Changed Modern Art

Antoine Bourdelle, official poster for the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris.

1925 Paris Exposition

Art Deco: The Style Born at a 1925 Paris Exposition

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hunters in the Snow, 1565. Oil on panel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Art History

Bruegel the Elder: The Painter of Peasants the Aristocracy Collected

Brunelleschi's dome of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence. Completed 1436.

Art History

Florence: Why the Italian Renaissance Started in One City