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Image for Interview with Dita Amory, Curator and Co-author of *Madame Cézanne*
Rachel High explores the enigmatic Hortense Fiquet with Madame Cézanne curator and catalogue co-author Dita Amory.
Image for Rembrandt makes da Vinci's "The Last Supper" his own with this chalk study
"The density of lines enhances the extraordinary emotion of the moment."
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How Can Art Trick Our Minds?

October 20, 2023
Instead of mixing paint colors on a palette, what happens if we let our eyes do the mixing? Learn about Pointillism and how the artist Georges Seurat used the science of optics to create a whole new way of painting!
Image for Exhibition Tour—Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
Over an intense nine weeks in the summer of 1905 in the modest fishing village of Collioure on the French Mediterranean, Henri Matisse and André Derain embarked on a partnership that led to a wholly new, radical artistic language later known as Fauvism.
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How to Make An Optical Illusion

October 20, 2023
Trick your friends with this optical illusion! Create an entire rainbow using only the primary colors — red, yellow, and blue dots.
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The Final Days: Five Portraits from Leonardo to Matisse

December 27, 2017

By Dita Amory and Alison Manges Nogueira

Curators Dita Amory and Alison Manges Nogueira discuss five portrait drawings from the exhibition Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection.
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Portuguese Azulejos and Quinta da Aveleda's Cellars

October 3, 2015

By Brooke Bates

Brooke Bates, development officer for Apollo Circle and Travel Program, recounts a lecture by Met Curator Dita Amory and the group's stop in Penafiel, Portugal.