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Botticelli The Birth of Venus a true beauty.
c. 1485-86; painted for the villa of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici at Castello; Tempera on canvas, 172.5 x 278.5 cm; now in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.See beautiful art @artfortune.com.
July 2010
110 posts
Immaculate Art
Fra Angelico’s most famous art piece was this alter piece 1438. It showed Angel Gabriel approaching Mary and telling her of her Immaculate Conception in the world famed “Annunciation”. See famed art @artfortune.com
Is it Art or Is It Dada
Marcel Duchamp, Fountain was shown 1917. It features a white glazed ceramic plumbing fixture and painted signature 63 x 48 x 35 cm. This is a real urinal. Hard to believe but Duchamp submitted it to the jury-free 1917 Independents exhibition Needless to say, it was suppressed by a committee. Dada is a different type of Art.
June 2010
65 posts
Fauvism Leads the Crayola Generation
Henri Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Vlaminck, Braque and Dufy led the Fauvism fervor. They used colors that would make a crayon box blush.This was the new path away from the dreamy canvases of the French Impressionists
“I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)” —Google
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)” —Google
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)” —Google
Andre Gide (1869 - 1951)” —Google
“Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary” —Google
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil’s Dictionary” —Google
“Think of this little gem….Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
OSCAR WILDE 1854 - 1900)” —Google
OSCAR WILDE 1854 - 1900)” —Google
Aubrey Beardsley Hidden Erotic
Grasset, The Lost Style of French Art Nouveau
Lori Reed Radiant Art
Seay Surrealism Supreme
“Richard Deacon- “My Art Deals With Materiality”
Richard Deacon is one of the most renowned contemporary sculptors in the world and is a central figure of the New British Sculpture movement which emerged in the early 1980’s.” —Art Interview Online Magazine Google
Richard Deacon is one of the most renowned contemporary sculptors in the world and is a central figure of the New British Sculpture movement which emerged in the early 1980’s.” —Art Interview Online Magazine Google
Norman Rockwell Innocence Lost
Louise Was Anything But Bourgeois
“I believe that if you work enough, the world is going to get better” Louise Bourgeois was cut from a different cloth. She embraced the macabre and organic and made art that stunned and amazed. She did groupings and grouped parts not quite real but always shocking. She looked at organic substance as the DNA of her Art.
“Richmond Barthe is quoted as saying “all my life I have be interested in trying to capture the spiritual quality I see and feel in people, and I feel that the human figure as God made it, is the best means of expressing this spirit in man.”
—Goggle Wikipedia
Barthe's Sensual Sculptures
Okada Brings Elegance to Modernism
Phillip Howard Evergood Wore Many Hats
Abstract Thinking From The Roaring Twenties
