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🚴‍♀️ Portraits That Move Us: Michelle Obama by Amy Sherald

Cultural icon Sometimes a painting doesn’t just hang—it stands. That’s exactly what happens with Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama, a monumental work that now commands its own room at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, 2018 Oil on linen, 183 x 153 cm Image via National Portrait Gallery / Smithsonian The painting became a cultural icon the…

The Bicyclist by Fernand Léger: Celebrating Motion and Modernity

In the vibrant landscape of early 20th-century art, few works capture the dynamic spirit of modernization quite like “The Bicyclist” (1920) by French painter Fernand Léger. This masterpiece stands as a testament to the artist’s unique vision of mechanical cubism and his fascination with the modern world’s increasing mechanization. The Artist Behind the Canvas Fernand Léger (1881-1955) emerged as one of the…