by Stanley Meisler | LA Times | February 14, 2015 | featured image: Piero di Cosimo’s “The Discovery of Honey,” c. 1500, oil on panel When American millionaires bought paintings by Piero di Cosimo in the late 19th century, almost all the works were attributed to other Italian Renaissance artists. Piero, a painter of Florence during…
Category: Visual Art
the magic in twilight
‘Water and Shadow’ at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts engenders a renewed appreciation for the emotional range printmakers can achieve. article by LEE LAWRENCE | via Wall Street Journal Water and Shadow: Kawase Hasui and Japanese Landscape Prints Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Through March 29 An island silhouetted in the moonlight, yellow grasses drying…
Here’s How Japan Marketed Its Sprawling Red-Light District Hundreds Of Years Ago
Article by Mallika Rao | The Huffington Post Hosoda Eishi (1756–1829) Contest of Passion in the Four Seasons (Shiki kyo-en zu), late 1790s–early 1800s; one of a set of four hanging scrolls; ink, colour and gold on silk, Michael Fornitz collection. It was a stroke of marketing genius on the part of the madams and pimps…
geometric shapes in snow :: snow art
Stunning geometric shapes appear in snow on frozen, isolated lakes {by Allyssia Alleyne, for CNN, January 6, 2015} CNN – If you frequent the pistes of the French Alps, you may see more than just skiers and snowmen scattered around the trails below. For the last 10 years, British artist Simon Beck has been decorating snow-covered…
unfinished work :: gustav klimt
The Huffington Post | By Katherine Brooks | Posted: 01/27/2015 Some of the world’s most famous artworks are nomadic. They travel from one institution to another, borrowed and lent across museums so that art admirers in continents too far to touch can view them. They are gently packaged and shipped overseas, ushered into temporary homes by…
can art still shock?
Is Grayson Perry right – can we no longer be outraged by art and literature? From Manet’s Olympia to Pussy Riot and Houellebecq, Adam Thirlwell presents a short history of shock {Adam Thirlwell, 23 January 2015, The Guardian; featured image: Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917).Photograph: Alfred Stieglitz/AP} For a long time, I’ve been nostalgic for the era of…
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