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Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Warrick’s sudden conversion to summertime kilts was a disturbing windy day distraction at Pints and Pickleball..
Gustave Courbet is regarded as the founder and primary proponent of French Realism, a style of painting that aimed to accurately represent reality without embellishment.
In 1981, the German conceptual artist Gerhard Richter held an exhibition at the Kunsthalle in Cologne. Famous for a penchant technique called “the blur,” Richter’s work at the time explored music, culture and the trauma of totalitarianism.
A comparative exhibition in Paris’ Musée d’Orsay and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases world famous masterpieces and rarely seen works from around the world