Sunday, June 29, 2014
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
What on Earth!
IT,S FILM FRIDAY !!!!!
The following film was shown to my Grammar
School class and I never forgot it. It changed the way I looked at the world.
| What on Earth! | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Kaj Pindal Les Drew |
| Produced by | Robert Verrall Wolf Koenig |
| Written by | Kaj Pindal |
| Narrated by | Donald Brittain |
| Music by | Donald Douglas |
| Production company |
National Film Board of Canada |
| Distributed by | National Film Board of Canada Columbia Pictures |
| Running time | 09 min 35 s |
| Country | Canada |
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962
| Title | Be careful how you distribute your weight, Madam. You might upset it, you know |
| Creator | Darling, Jay N. (Jay Norwood), 1876-1962 |
| Date Original | 1920-10-26 |
| Contained Text | The political canoe; 25 million women voters. |
| Note | Boats |
| Subject - Topics | Women's suffrage |
| Subject - Events | Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1920 |
| Chronological Subject | 1920-1930 |
| Type (DCMIType) | Still image |
| Type (AAT) |
Editorial cartoons Printers' proofs |
| Digital Collection |
Des Moines Register Cartoonists Editorial Cartoons of J.N. "Ding" Darling |
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
PONTORMO, Jacopo
(b. 1494, Pontormo, d. 1557, Firenze)
Two Seated Youth with a Book
c. 1525
Red chalk, 277 x 379 mm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Red chalk, 277 x 379 mm
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
The verso of the sheet contains a black chalk drawing of a head of a man wearing a hat.
Friday, June 20, 2014
BAILLY, David
Self-Portrait
c. 1625Brush in black and grey on light brown paper, 164 x 122 mm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(b. 1584, Leiden, d. 1657, Leiden)
Top:Until the 20th century it was thought that the sitter of this portrait is the poet and playwright Gerrit Adriaensz Brodero.
Self-Portrait
1625Pen in brown, brush in grey, 183 x 137 mm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols
1651Oil on wood, 65 x 97,5 cm
Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
On the one hand, there are several portraits (as painting within the painting) forming part of a still-life arrangement on the table. The arrangement includes, among other things, a skull, an extinguished candle, coins, a wine glass on its side, a pocket watch, roses, a pearl necklace, a pipe, books and sculpture. Soap bubbles hover above them as symbols of transience.
On the other hand, the entire collection functions as a statement about the young man on the left, whose face displays the typical features of a self-portrait. It may therefore be somewhat irritating that the artist was in fact 67 years old when he painted this picture in 1651.
However, the contradiction can be solved when we consider that his current features are shown in the small oval portrait, demonstratively held out towards the viewer - a medium which in itself already documents the transience of life. The youthful artist's face, by contrast, shows Bailly as he was at an earlier stage in his life, more than four decades previously. Thus, by changing the time references of past fiction and present reality, the painting suggests that the young artist is anticipating his future age, which - though part of the present in 1651 - appears to belong to the past, as conveyed through the medium of the portrait. The young man, who appears to be so real within the first-degree reality of the painting, really represents a state of the past.
Unlike the repetitive, dull and often schematic topics of Dutch vanitas still-lifes, the misleading time scale in Bailly's painting adds a new dimension to the whole subjec
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté
Study for 'Caughnawaga Women'
Caughnawaga Women
Marc-Aurèle de Foy Suzor-Coté
1924
43.3 x 33.9 x 56 cmbronze
Purchased 1926
National Gallery of Canada
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
BLOEMAERT, Abraham
Warrior and Young Standard-Bearer
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Pen with brown ink, brown wash on paper, 270 x 171 mm
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
Monday, June 16, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
DAVID, Jacques-Louis
(b. 1748, Paris, d. 1825, Bruxelles)
1793
Pen, black and brown ink, 270 x 210 mm
Musée National du Château, Versailles
Pen, black and brown ink, 270 x 210 mm
Musée National du Château, Versailles
David probably drew Marat while the body was on display and this
drawing, with its network of crosshatching in the manner of an
engraving, isolates the head and produces a macabre yet powerful
portrait of the deceased. As with the final painting (The Death of
Marat) there is no suggestion of the violent act that had taken place,
and in the four corners David wrote A MARAT /L'AMI/DU PEUPLE/DAVID (To
Marat, The Friend of the People, David).
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Friday, June 13, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Norman Mills Price
| Norman Mills Price illustration - Dora and John Bull ink drawing | |
| Pen and Ink | |
| Illustration |
The drawing size is approximately 6 5/8 x 8.
Thursday, June 5, 2014
GOSSART, Jan
GOSSART, Jan
Standing Warrior in Fantastic Armour with a Halberd
c. 1509
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, 280 x 169 mm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Standing Warrior in Fantastic Armour with a Halberd
c. 1509
Pen and black ink, over black chalk, 280 x 169 mm
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe
ARCIMBOLDO, Giuseppe
Costume drawing for a knight
1585
Pen, blue wash on white paper, 313 x 198 mm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Costume drawing for a knight
1585
Pen, blue wash on white paper, 313 x 198 mm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
(French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris)
Head of an Old Woman Looking Up
Date:
n.d.
Medium:
Red chalk. Framing lines in pen and brown ink.
Dimensions:
16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 Monday, June 2, 2014
LEONARDO da Vinci
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LEONARDO da Vinci
Woman's Head
1470-76
Pen, ink and white pigment on paper, 282 x 199 mm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
1470-76
Pen, ink and white pigment on paper, 282 x 199 mm
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
The detailed drawing of a girl's head contains elements typical of the
school of Verrocchio, such as the diagonally placed eyes with the
considerably rounded pupils and hair painted in meticulous detail. A
relationship between this drawing and the Mary in the Annunciation
predella in the Louvre has quite rightly been established. The
attribution of the drawing to Leonardo is now just as disputed as its
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