Wang Ximeng, Detail of A Thousand Li of River, 1113, ink on silk, 2’ x 39’ (full scroll size), Palace Museum, Palace Museum, The Forbidden City, Beijing, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Wang Ximeng was a prodigy artist working in China during the Northern Song Dynasty during the early twelfth century. He painted his masterpiece, A Thousand Li of River, a long landscape scroll painting, when he was only eighteen years old in … Continue reading
Andy Goldsworthy, Stone Room, 2007, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Photo by Barkaw via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
“Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.” Andy Goldsworthy
Winslow Homer, The Fox Hunt, 1893, oil on canvas, 38” x 68½”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Winslow Homer, the American Realist painter, lived and worked in his studio at Prouts Neck in Scarborough, Maine for nearly thirty years before he died, creating many of his most memorable paintings such as The Fox Hunt. Today, this studio will … Continue reading
Man Ray, Les Larmes, 1932, gelatin silver print, 9
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.” Man Ray
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We can learn a great deal by looking at the same subject in art as it is represented over time. The similarities and differences speak volumes as to the true intentions of the artist and his or her cultural reality. … Continue reading
Dikka in the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan, 1356 CE, marble, photo by Mbenoist, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons, GNU Free Documentation License.
Dikka (noun) An elevated platform upon which a cantor stands in a mosque.
Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 1962, each canvas 20” x 16”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Photo by Gwenaël Piser via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
Next week on September 18th, an exhibition entitled, “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” will open at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibition explores Andy Warhol’s influence on contemporary art with many works by Warhol himself … Continue reading
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater or the Kaufmann House, 1936-1939, Mill Run, PA, Photo by Happy Via via Flickr, Creative Commons Attribution License.
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill, belonging to it.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Joachim Patinir, St. Jerome in the Desert, c. 1515, oil on panel, 30.7” x 53.9”, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Joachim Patinir created this image just as landscape painting was coming into its own as a separate and distinct subject in art for the first time since the ancient Roman era. This painting by Patinir and others like it really … Continue reading
Vincent van Gogh, Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1888, oil on canvas, 35.8" x 28.3", Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
He very well may have been. Click here to read a fascinating article about vision expert Kazunori Asad’s explosive hypothesis. You’ll find many good illustrations in the article.
Fayum Portrait, c. 200 CE, encaustic paint on limewood, 13¾” x 6¾”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
This is a portrait painted on a piece of wood that was affixed to the head of a mummified body. This fayum portrait, a type of portrait named for the Fayum region of Lower Egypt, and others like it are … Continue reading
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Fractal Analysis (noun) A type of mathematical analysis that finds patterns and translates it to a set of numbers with a particular mean and standard deviation. About a decade ago, physicists used fractal analysis to examine paintings by Jackson Pollock … Continue reading