I started out to upload some samples from this wonderful contest, but the whole thing is so hilarious and funny and witty that I found it impossible to pick and choose.
I started out to upload some samples from this wonderful contest, but the whole thing is so hilarious and funny and witty that I found it impossible to pick and choose.
Warka vase, Uruk: 3000 BCE, Uruk in Southern Iraq (Photo from pg. 61 of M. Roaf’s Cultural Atlans of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East).
This vase is covered with scenes of offerings for the goddess Inanna. She and the King are shown in the top register.
On The Balcony (1955-57) by Peter Blake Oil on canvas 121.3 X 90.8 cm (47¼ X 35¼ ins)
Peter Lindbergh’s photo of Marion Cotillard for Christian Dior.
This canvas was painted during Cezanne’s “Dark Period” (1861-70) and certainly affected by his place in Le Salon des Refuses at The Academie des Beaux Arts
Wothopedia characterizes Cezanne as a “lithograph” among other things in the caption to this picture. Elsewhere I read that, Cezanne made 6 lithographs in all his life (http://www.artsconnected.org/resource/94217/purchase-of-c-zanne-lithograph-the-minneapolis-institute-of-arts-bulletin). Any remarks on which one of these statements is misleading?
Cezanne (1875) Bathers at rest…
Nikola Tesla 1943 (7th January) Death Mask.
Self Portrait as Saint Sebastian - Egon Schiele, 1914-15. Poster for Amot Gallery Exhibition.
Born in Toulouse to a French cabinet maker and a mother of Italian descent, Henri Martin successfully persuaded his father to permit him to become an artist. He began his career in 1877 at the Toulouse School of the Fine Arts, where he was under the tutelage of Jules Garipuy (he was also a pupil of Henry-Eugéne Delacroix). In 1879, Martin relocated to Paris and with the help of a scholarship, was able to study in Jean-Paul Laurens’ studio. Four years later, he received his first medal at the Paris Salon, where he would hold his first exhibition three years later in 1886. The year after he won his first medal, Martin was awarded a scholarship for a tour in Italy, where he studied the work of veterans such as Giotto and Masaccio. His 1889 canvas submission to the Salon earned him the gold medal for work that has been described as Pointillist. That same year he became a member of the Legion of Honour. At the 1900 World Fair, he was awarded the Grand Prize for his work. During this period, he became friends with Auguste Rodin. Although Martin’s work as a neo-impressionist is not considered groundbreaking, his work was rather well-received, and has been associated with world-class symbolist painter, Puvis de Chavannes. Due to his introverted temperament, Martin decided to move away from Paris. After a decade of searching for an ideal home, Martin bought Marquayrol, a mansion overlooking La Bastide du Vert, near Cahors. He performed his best work in the new tranquil environment, and died there in 1943.
It is difficult now to imagine the controversy that modern art generated in the first half of the twentieth century, but to many it was almost the end of the world, and it was creeping ever closer to them. An alarm was sounded by Rocky Mountain News columnist Lee Casey on 11 February 1948: “The influence of decadent Parisians…Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne…has even been felt in the West. Santa Fe has been damaged by it and Denver has not wholly escaped the blight….In Western art, Western literature and bourbon, I’ll take mine straight.” Denver newspaper articles trumpeted the conflict between “conservative” and “radical” artists. The debate climaxed in 1948 with the break from the 20-year-old Denver Artists Guild.
The blue period began, according to Picasso, with the death of his friend in 1901; “I started painting in blue when I learned of Casagemas’s death.” But I think that was a retroactive romanticization. Picasso’s periods bled into each other as did his paints. The work at the top illustrate a pre-1901 proclivity towards blueness.
Mater Dolorosa’ stained glass (circa 1513-14)
St Christopher; the giant carrying the Child with orb through the water; in the background to the right stands the hermit with lantern on the shore; a fish, a mermaid and two fighting tritons are depicted in the water. c. 1500
(not sure if it is Master of Hausbuch)
Matthias Gerung , in older literature Geron Mathias (b. 1500 in Nördlingen , † 1570 in Lauingen [1] ) was a German painter and engraver . He was probably the son of the violinist said Matt Shoemaker († 1521) from Nördlingen and possibly at Hans Schaufelin in teaching [2] , older literature describes him as a student of Hans Burgkmair [3] . 1525 Gerung Lauingen moved to the former Duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg . There he was married to Anna Reiser, possibly the daughter of the painter Lauinger Matthes Reiser † around 1519) was (of which Matthias Lauingen workshop could have taken in Gerung. The couple had two sons, Hans and Ambrosius.
