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The Ignorant Art Historian: Ice Floes

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The Ignorant Art Historian: Ice Floes
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Claude Monet, Ice Floes, 1893, oil on canvas, 26 x 39 ½ inches, via Wikimedia Commons. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, licensed under CC0 1.0.
The Ignorant Art Historian is a series by the art critic Hal Foster, in which he tries to “demystify the viewing of art a little, not to deskill it exactly, but to suggest that anyone can do it.” You can read his introduction to the series here and the first installment here. The next two entries will appear later this month. 
 
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