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In an a spirit very like that of last week’s featured artist (figures from classic art “spliced” into the real world), Julien de Casabianca, a Corsican artist and film-maker, created Outings to set museum pieces free– to move art from gallery walls to the street.

Take it to the streets at Outings.

* Pablo Picasso

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As we get up against the wall, we might spare a thought for Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer; he died on this date in 1675.  A moderately successful Dutch provincial genre painter in his lifetime, Vermeer created relatively few paintings (34 are confidently attributed to him), mostly domestic interior scenes; his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death.  But he was “rediscovered” in the mid-19th century, and is now considered one of the masters of the Dutch Golden Age.

See Girl With A Pearl Earring, The Milkmaid, The Lacemaker, and his other paintings here. (And see The Milkmaid in the Gluten-Free Museum here :)

Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), considered to be a self portrait by Vermeer

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