Seurat's Post-Impressionist masterpiece, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884–86), is a study in contradictions: a painting of modern life that doesn't capture a moment so much as stops it dead in its…
Though it appears confounding and disjointed to modern eyes, The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510) is as consistent an example of the medieval world view as any in art history.
The Persistence of Memory(La persistencia de la memoria)
(1931) is a trifecta of superlatives: Surrealism's most famous painting, created by its most famous artist, featuring its most famous motif…