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ok-arts: Glass
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Thursday, February 15, 2007. Tiffany Vase American designer Louis Comfort Tiffany helped popularize the art nouveau style with its elongated, curving, plantlike forms, in the United States in the late 19th century. This vase is an example of Favrile glass, a silky, opalescent glass that Tiffany developed.Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York. II MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES. The basic ingredient of glass compositions is silica, derived from sand, flint, or quartz.
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ok-arts: 2006-12-17
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Friday, December 22, 2006. The leading pottery centers in East Asian history were China, Korea, and Japan. See Japanese Art and Architecture; Chinese Art and Architecture; Korean Art and Architecture. Neolithic Chinese Jar This jar from Gansu in north central China is dated about 2500 bc. It is a very early wheel-thrown piece and features geometric designs in black and reddish-brown on a buff-colored body. This piece may have been used as a burial urn.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York. Tomb figures ...
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ok-arts: 2006-10-22
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Thursday, October 26, 2006. Masaccio’s Expulsion from Paradise Expulsion from Paradise (about 1427) is one of six frescoes painted by Masaccio for the Brancacci Chapel in Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy. The fresco was influential for its realism, especially the simplicity and three-dimensionality of the figures, and for the dramatic depiction of the plight of Adam and Eve.Brancacci Chapel, Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York. Invida cur, Lachesis, primo sub ...
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ok-arts: History of Furniture
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Friday, December 22, 2006. Reconstruction of the prehistoric house with any certainty is impossible, although all indications are that it contained furniture. A history of furniture begins with a discussion of the oldest surviving examples: those from the 4th Dynasty (2575-2467 bc) to the 6th Dynasty (2323-2152 bc) of Old Kingdom Egypt. Bc, Egyptian Museum, Cairo) from the tomb of Hesire has animal legs as the supports. It does not differ much from a chair (1325? A chair, table, couch, and canopy (2550?
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ok-arts: 2007-02-11
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Thursday, February 15, 2007. In fine art the idiosyncratic is admired, whereas anonymity of style is characteristic of folk art. Another distinction is that between folk art and craft. If the utility of a work predominates, then it is a craft object; if decoration predominates, then it is an example of folk art. II CANADIAN FOLK ART. A French-Canadian Folk Art. Wide woven belts that young Native American women were taught to weave by Ursuline nuns. B Anglo-Canadian Folk Art. C Swiss and German Folk Art.
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ok-arts: 2006-12-10
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Friday, December 15, 2006. 1938: Painting And Sculpture. 1938: Painting And Sculpture. Art in the United States. In 1938 the United States Government continued to act as chief patron of the arts in America. The art projects of the Works Progress Administration and of the Treasury Department continued their programs, employing several thousand artists and bringing art before an increasingly large public all over the country. Exhibitions in Dealers' Galleries. The functionalist trend in modern architecture...
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ok-arts: Folk Art
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Thursday, February 15, 2007. In fine art the idiosyncratic is admired, whereas anonymity of style is characteristic of folk art. Another distinction is that between folk art and craft. If the utility of a work predominates, then it is a craft object; if decoration predominates, then it is an example of folk art. II CANADIAN FOLK ART. A French-Canadian Folk Art. Wide woven belts that young Native American women were taught to weave by Ursuline nuns. B Anglo-Canadian Folk Art. C Swiss and German Folk Art.
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ok-arts: Pottery-East Asia
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Friday, December 22, 2006. The leading pottery centers in East Asian history were China, Korea, and Japan. See Japanese Art and Architecture; Chinese Art and Architecture; Korean Art and Architecture. Neolithic Chinese Jar This jar from Gansu in north central China is dated about 2500 bc. It is a very early wheel-thrown piece and features geometric designs in black and reddish-brown on a buff-colored body. This piece may have been used as a burial urn.Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York. Tomb figures ...
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ok-arts: WESTERN POTTERY
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007. The historical styles of Western pottery include those of the ancient Middle East and Mediterranean as well as those of the medieval Muslim world and medieval and modern Europe. Iznik Ware Thrives in Turkey. Egyptian Pottery Pottery was one of the earliest art forms undertaken by the ancient Egyptians. This piece from the Predynastic period (5000 bc-3000 bc) is decorated with ostriches, boats, and geometrical designs.Art Resource, NY. Mediterranean, Greece, and Rome. The BLAck-...
