Saturday, September 17, 2011

Red Studio

by
Matisse

Matisse uses past realistic studios interiors by Courbet, Bazille, and others, then he merges these paintings with his present, a concern with color-field painting. The composition of this painting is casual and simplistic. The interweaving and tying together of objects in past paintings such as "Harmony in Red" can not be found. Instead, the space is very open, and always returns to the surface of the image. 1911; Oil on canvas, 71 1/4" x 86 1/4" Museum of Modern Art, New York

Bather in shallow tub

by
Dega

The Tub, done from 1885 to 1886, was another of Degas’ works focused around a woman in a shallow tub. This time the woman is standing bent over  Not a very attractive pose, it easy to see why some may have taken issue with the way Degas portrayed his women. However, Degas would argue that he portrayed his woman only in the way that they actually existed. Charcoal and pastel on light green wove paper, now discolored to warm gray, laid down on silk bolting

Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Starry Night

by Van Gogh
is a painting by Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. Since 1941 it has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Reproduced often, the painting is widely hailed as his magnum opus.

Evening, Honfleur

by 

                                                Georges-Pierre Seurat  

                                                   (French, 1859-1891)

1886. Oil on canvas, with painted wood frame, 30 3/4 x 37" (78.3 x 94 cm) including frame. Gift of Mrs. David M. Levy

Entombment


By Pontormo
an altarpiece by the Italian Renaissance painter Jacopo Pontormo, completed in 1528. It is broadly considered to be the artist's surviving masterpiece. Painted in oil on wood, The Deposition is located above the altar of theCapponi Chapel at the church of Santa Felicita, in Florence.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The School of Athens


 in Italian, is one of the most famous paintings by the Italian Renaissance artistRaphael. It was painted between 1510 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated, and The School of Athens the second painting to be finished there, after La Disputa, on the opposite wall. The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance. Located at Apostolic Palace, Vatican City

Friday, August 12, 2011

The Tachi



With a few exceptions katana and tachi can be distinguished from each other if signed, by the location of the signature (mei) on the tang(nakago). In general the mei should carved into the side of the nakago that would face outward when the sword was worn. Since a tachi was worn cutting edge down, and the katana was worn cutting edge up the mei would be in opposite locations on the nakago of both types of swords.[1]

The Great Wave


is a woodblock print by the Japanese artist Hokusai. An example of ukiyo-e art, it was published sometime between 1830 and 1833[2] (during the Edo Period) as the first in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanjūrokkei (富嶽三十六景?)), and is his most famous work.Original impressions of the 'Great Wave' print are today in the collections of major museums or in private collections. Every now and then an original copy is popping up in the market. But they are really rare, and those that are available are often not in very good condition.

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Last Supper


is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d'Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supperfrom the final days of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. measures 450 × 870 centimeters (15 feet × 29 ft) and covers an end wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

Rubys


Monday, August 8, 2011

Carmina Burana


by
Carl Orff

Tamerlane and Other Poems

 first published work by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. The short collection of poems was first published in 1827. Today, it is believed only 12 copies of the collection still exist.

Saturday, August 6, 2011


The death mask really is a magnificent no knowledge of the finer points of Egyptian antiquities.   Made of solid gold and inlaid with semi-precious stones, it weighs 11 kilograms. Tutankhamun was an Egyptian pharaoh of the 18th dynasty (ruled c.1333 BC – 1323 BC in the conventional chronology), during the period of Egyptian history known as the New Kingdom. 

Mask of Tutankhamun's mummy, the popular icon for ancient Egypt at The Egyptian Museum.

Nighthawks


a 1942 painting by Edward Hopper that portrays people sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is considered Hopper's most famous painting, as well as one of the most recognizable in American art

Friday, August 5, 2011

Statue of David


by
Michelangelo
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 foot)[1] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Luv(sic) Part 4


by
Nujabes feat. Shing02

Barroom Dancing 1820


Sketch associated with 1819 oil painting Country frolic and dance, oil on canvas. This drawing more nearly resembles the print Dance in a country tavern lithographed by George Lehman, ca. 1835-36.  Date from almanac hanging on wall.

The Portland Vase


The Portland Vase is a Roman cameo glass vase, currently dated to between AD 5 and AD 25,[1] which served as an inspiration to many glass and porcelain makers from about the beginning of the 18th century onwards.
The vase is about 25 centimeters high and 56 in circumference. It is made of violet-blue glass, and surrounded with a single continuous white glass cameo depicting seven figures 
it is currently at the British Museum 

Diamonds

Nefertiti Bust


Nefertiti (ca. 1370 BC – ca. 1330 BC) was the Great Royal Wife(chief consort) of theEgyptian PharaohAkhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they started to worship one god only. This wasAten, or the sun disc.

She was made famous by her bust, now in Berlin's Neues Museum

Symphony #40 in G Minor, K 550 - 1. Molto Allegro


by
Mozart 

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote his Symphony No. 40 in G minorKV. 550, in 1788. It is sometimes referred to as the "Great G minor symphony," to distinguish it from the "Little G minor symphony," No. 25. The two are the only minor key symphonies Mozart wrote.

The Rehearsal of the Ballet Onstage



Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Oil colors freely mixed with turpentine, with traces of watercolor and pastel over pen-and-ink drawing on cream-colored wove paper, laid down on bristol board and mounted on canvas
There are three very similar versions of this composition. The largest, painted in grisaille (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), was shown in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874. The two other works, tentatively dated to the same year, are in the Metropolitan's collection

Gold coins



Mona Lisa


Mona Lisa (also known asLa Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo) is a portrait by the Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting in oil on a poplarpanel, completed circa 1503-1519. It is on permanent display at the Musée du Louvre in Paris
The Mona Lisa painting now hangs in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

Very much of value to me


Di Blai: July 1, 1989
A beautiful tormented soul with lots of self-doubt,
hopelessness, & depression.
One thing that makes her so beautiful is that her
depression comes from a drive to live a normal life.
She pushes forward through a life that takes her
beyond her limits everyday. She is truly an inspiration
of strength. Someone that is under appreciated but
humble. She takes her beauty in modesty almost
completely unaware and/or neglecting the fact that
she is and can be as pretty as people tell her. Her
innocence is child-like and she is complex in the
simplest way. There are many thing to be admired
about her.She is a one of a kind, priceless, A
real diamond in the rough,