Let us consider the muse in pre-modern art. In previous blogs we have addressed; the succubi and incubus in art, the siren and piren, the mermaid and mermen and the prostitute in art. This blog continues that approach. The use of the muse in contemporary art will be considered in the next blog. A few…
Tag: art history
spain says art submitted in lieu of tax last year not good enough
Taxpayers will have to cough up the cash since the state declined to acquire the works for public collections (via The Art Newspaper. By Belén Palanco. Published online: 22 January 2015} Francisco de Goya’s Tobias and the angel, around 1787, Museo del Prado The Spanish Government did not accept any art in lieu of tax in…
15 badass art world heroines over 70 years old
They came. They created. They conquered. The Huffington Post | By Priscilla Frank The following 15 women defeated the odds, inscribing their names in art history and forever changing its course. And what’s crazier is the fact that they kept doing it, over and over again, probably for longer than you’ve been alive. Behold, the…
best art of 2014: both anticipated + unexpected
Featuring giants, such as Matisse and Cézanne, as well as lesser known artists, this year’s best exhibitions ranged from eagerly awaited blockbusters to pleasant surprises Wall Street Journal, article by Karen Wilkin The year’s most memorable exhibitions, some of which can still be seen into 2015, ranged from the much-anticipated to the unexpected, from revealing considerations…
the genius of albrecht dürer revealed in four self-portraits
The German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was one of the greatest figures of the Northern Renaissance. As a draughtsman and painter, he rivaled his elder contemporary Leonardo Da Vinci, and his masterful woodcuts and engravings of mythical and allegorical scenes made him famous across Europe. In the first half of his life, Dürer made a…
hunting for the origins of symbolic thought
Article by Ferris Jabr, via New York Times Magazine Three years ago, on an expedition to Sulawesi, one of the larger islands in the Indonesia archipelago, the archaeologist Adam Brumm visited a cave decorated with ancient art: mulberry-colored hand stencils and paintings of corpulent pig-deer and midget buffalo, complete with hairlike brush strokes. Squeezing past a…
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