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COLOURING THE MASTERS

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Deep Forest, circa 1931 oil on canvas by Emily Carr. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, the year British Columbia joined Canada, Emily Carr was the second-youngest of nine children.


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The Gray Tree was painted in 1912 by Piet Mondrian. he Gray Tree is one of the first paintings in which Mondrian applied to a natural subject the principles of cubist composition


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Georgia O'Keeffe, The Lawrence Tree, 1929, oil on canvas, 31 x 40 inches (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford) Painted in the summer of 1929 while visiting D.H. Lawrence at his Kiowa Ranch during O'Keeffe's first trip to New Mexico, the tree stands in front of the house.


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Van Gogh painted The Mulberry Tree in October of 1889 less than a year before he would die. Like most of his art, it was done during a period of highs and lows painted during a time of great self-awareness and yet surrounded by chaos.


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Tohaku Hasegawa is one of most important Japanese painters ever. The “Pine Trees” screen (Shorin-zu-byobu) is Tohaku’s most important work, and one of the most famous Japanese paintings inside and outside Japan, where it has been declared a National Treasure.


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The 1895 pastel-on-board version of the painting by Edvard Munch was sold at Sotheby's for a record US$120 million at auction on 2 May 2012.


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The Tree of life is an important symbol used by many theologies, philosophies and mythologies. It signifies the connection between heaven and earth and the underworld, and the same concept is illustrated by Gustav Klimt's famous mural, The Tree of Life. For Klimt's admirers, the mural also has another significance, being the only landscape created by the artist during his golden period. Klimt used oil painting techniques with gold paint, to create luxurious art pieces, during that time.


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