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		<title>The Great Wave Off Kanagawa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full disclosure: I&#8217;ve never really been a fan of three kinds of art&#8212;anything that pre-dates the Renaissance Era, sculpture, and Asian art (in general, not just a specific era). For whatever reason, Asian art&#8212;even art from the 18th and 19th century&#8212;never really speaks to me. However&#8230; I love the color blue. You could assemble a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/09/the-great-wave-off-kanagawa/</link>
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		<title>Wind From The Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a rule, I don&#8217;t much care for naturalistic still life or scenic paintings, even if the technique and the realism of it borders on flawless. This is especially true of outdoor rural scenes. Maybe it has something to do with my Midwestern upbringing in which every other bank, building lobby, and school seemingly has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/09/wind-from-the-sea/</link>
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		<title>Rooms By The Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The painting that defines Edward Hopper on a mainstream and iconic level is Nighthawks. This painting should be instantly recognizable, even if the name of the artist rang no bells for you when you read the previous sentence. Nighthawks is an iconic painting on many levels; if nothing else it is a modern equivalent to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/07/rooms-by-the-sea/</link>
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		<title>Liz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andy Warhol loved almost every single facet about celebrities&#8212;the idea of celebrity, the beauty and production of it, and the idea that a person&#8217;s face could become its own brand, idea, ideal, and anything else that could make up the construct of a Zeitgeist. I believe it is fair to say that Andy Warhol was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/04/liz/</link>
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		<title>Raphaelesque Head Exploding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not gonna lie: when it came to writing about Salvador Dalí for the first time on this site I had to fight back the urge to write about The Persistence Of Memory. (For those of you who may not recognize the title, The Persistence Of Memory is the painting that has a few melted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/04/raphaelesque-head-exploding/</link>
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		<title>Marlene Dietrich, 1952</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even now in the 21st century amongst all of the technological advances that have been applied to cameras, televisions, and computer monitors, a simple black and white photograph taken decades ago can stop you in your tracks. What is it about black and white photographs that they can mesmerize us so easily? Why is it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/03/marlene-dietrich-1952/</link>
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		<title>The Starry Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had every intention of writing a separate introduction for this site. I really did. But I kept going back and forth as to how to even start the first paragraph. I wrote what felt like fourteen different variations of how to explain the significance of the stationary fine arts (i.e.&#8211;paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures) but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chiaroscuro.grigr.com/2010/03/the-starry-night/</link>
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